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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2022
Applicant:
Ofs Fitel, Llc, Norcross, GA (US);
Inventors:
Tristan Kremp, Somerset, NJ (US);
Paul S. Westbrook, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Tommy Geisler, Brondby, DK;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/16 (2006.01); G02B 6/02 (2006.01); G01B 9/0209 (2022.01); G01N 21/47 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/02 (2013.01); G01B 11/18 (2013.01); G02B 6/02052 (2013.01); G01B 9/0209 (2013.01); G01N 21/47 (2013.01); G02B 6/0208 (2013.01);
Abstract
A high backscattering optical fiber comprising a perturbed segment in which the perturbed segment reflects a relative power such that the optical fiber has an effective index of n, a numerical aperture of NA, a scatter of Rthat varies axially along the optical fiber, a total transmission loss of α, an in-band range greater than one nanometer (1 nm), and a figure of merit (FOM) in the in-band range. The FOM being defined as: