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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:
Aug. 08, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bruce Tirri, Brookfield, CT (US);
Assignee:
Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356364 ; 356366 ; 356367 ; 385 11 ; 385115 ;
Abstract
A optical fiber polarimeter (10) includes a plurality of polarizing optical fibers (14) each having a different orientation with respect to a common reference line. A charge-coupled device having an array of pixels (32) is adapted to receive the light from the optical fibers (14) and generate a signal relating to the intensity of the light impinging on each pixel to a signal processor (18) that also orders the signals according to the orientation thereof and thereby provides a polarization phase versus intensity signal output.