US Patent Issued to YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC on May 5 for "Optical fiber characteristics measurement apparatus and method of measuring optical fiber characteristics" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,744, issued on May 5, was assigned to YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical fiber characteristics measurement apparatus and method of measuring optical fiber characteristics" was invented by Yuta Suzuki (Musashino, Japan), Shin-ichirou Tezuka (Musashino, Japan) and Masayoshi Honma (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber characteristics measurement apparatus includes a first optical splitter that splits modulated light into pump light and reference light, a second optical splitter that causes the pump light to be incident on a fiber under test from one end and extracts Brillouin scattered light generated wi...