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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1987
Akira Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuji Hattori, Kanagawa, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A method of and apparatus for examining the structure of an optical fiber such as eccentricity, clad and core diameters, and nonroundness of clad. The structure of the optical fiber can be accurately determined by irradiating the side wall of the optical fiber with a light such as a white light, a monochromatic light or the like in the direction perpendicular to the axis of the optical fiber, detecting an image of the light transmitted through the optical fiber and/or diffraction fringes formed by lights diffracted by the outer edge of the optical fiber to obtain a luminance distribution of the light traversing the optical fiber, and calculating the luminance distribution to thereby obtain accurate structural parameters of the optical fiber.