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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2018
Commscope Technolgoies Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Earl R. Parsons, Allen, TX (US);
Randall L. Patterson, Wylie, TX (US);
Peter Berggren Kidd, Murphy, TX (US);
CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
A method of characterizing a multimode optical fiber results in a measure of estimated modal bandwidth (EMB) that is independent of the bandwidth of the light used in the characterization. The method includes propagating pulses of light along the multimode optical fiber at prescribed radial positions relative to an optical axis of the multimode optical fiber and detecting output pulses from the multimode optical fiber corresponding to the pulses of light propagated along the multimode optical fiber at the prescribed radial positions relative to the optical axis of the multimode optical fiber. An estimated modal bandwidth of the multimode optical fiber is calculated in a manner that accounts for chromatic dispersion of the multimode optical fiber.