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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1994
Stephen W Hinch, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An apparatus and method are provided based directly on measurement of power to enable an accurate and repeatable determination of extinction ratio. One implementation includes an optical-to-electrical (O/E) converter responsive to a modulated optical signal, a multimeter connected to the O/E converter for measuring a voltage corresponding to average optical power, a power meter connected to the O/E converter for measuring a voltage corresponding to the optical power in the modulation signal, and a microprocessor for determining the extinction ratio from the measured signals corresponding to average optical power and optical power in the modulation signal.
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