US Patent Issued to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CANADA, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA on Jan. 20 for "Method for determining distributed birefringence variations in a polarization-maintaining optical fiber" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,623, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CANADA Co. LTD. (Kanata, Canada) and UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA (Ottawa).

"Method for determining distributed birefringence variations in a polarization-maintaining optical fiber" was invented by Xiaoyi Bao (Ottawa) and Yuan Wang (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for determining distributed birefringence variations in a polarization-maintaining optical fiber (PM fiber). The method includes causing a pump signal to be sent into the PM fiber to generate a Brillouin dynamic grating (BDG) therein, causing a first chirped probe optical pulse to be sent into the P...