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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1990
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1988
Jean P Pocholle, Arpajon, FR;
Michel Papuchon, Massy, FR;
Claude Puech, Longjumeau, FR;
Pierre Tournois, Le Rouret, FR;
Thomson-CSF, Paris, FR;
Abstract
An optic fiber correlator having a first laser and a second laser emitting with the same frequency and with an amplitude modulated respectively by a first and second signal which are correlated. The correlator also has an optic fiber with its two ends respectively coupled to the two lasers and a length which is at least equal to the length corresponding to the maximum duration of the signals which are to be correlated and the optic fiber has a flattened surface throughout its length. A thin layer of non-centrosymmetrical structure material is applied to the flattened surface throughout the length of the fiber and light emitted by the layer is collected at a frequency which is twice the frequency of the two lasers in order to provide an electric signal which is the function of the intensity of the light and this electric signal expresses the correlation integral of the two correlated signals.