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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1976
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1974
Applicant:
Inventor:
Laurence Shrapnell Watkins, Hopewell Township, Mercer County, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Western Electric Company, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01B / ; G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356103 ; 356111 ; 356159 ;
Abstract
Parameters of a clad optical fiber are measured by irradiating the fiber with a laser beam to generate a scattering pattern. Measurements are made of fringes and modulations in the scattering pattern and these measurements are translated into such parameters as core and fiber diameter.