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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1988
Wilbur M Bailey, Tucson, AZ (US);
George H Hulderman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Vincent L Jones, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Joseph L Pikulski, Westlake, CA (US);
Arlie G Standlee, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Gregory L Tangonan, Oxnard, CA (US);
Michael R Vince, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Joseph A Wysocki, Oxnard, CA (US);
Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A fiber optic buffer defect detection system including a laser, for illuminating the fiber buffer with a collimated beam of light energy, and detectors for detecting any scattering of the beam, from a defect in the fiber buffer. The detectors are mounted to collect scattering out of a radial plane defined by the angular rotation of the beam about the fiber at the point of intersection of the beam with the fiber buffer.