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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:
Apr. 08, 1997
Filed:
May. 23, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard E Epworth, Sawbridgeworth, GB;
Terry Bricheno, Great Sampford, GB;
Assignee:
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 37 ;
Abstract
During the photo-induced creation of a Bragg grating in a photosensitive optical fibre using the interference fringe pattern generated in the near field of a phase grating, the spacing between fibre and phase grating is modulated.