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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1996
Zhixien Li, Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Shoji Adachi, Tokyo, JP;
Toshio Kurashima, Mito, JP;
Kaoru Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Ando Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Coherent light emitted from a coherent light source 1 is sent as a probe beam through a connector 31 into an optical fiber being measured. A portion of this beam is sent to an optical frequency converter 100 to form an optical pulse train having a frequency which is frequency-swept in steps of a designated frequency at a designated periodicity, and an optical pulse having a designated frequency is extracted from the optical pulse train by an electro-optic switch 18 and sent to the optical fiber being measured. Then, a signal beam exiting the optical fiber being measured is heterodyne-received by means of a local beam passing through either a connecting optical fiber 6 side or a frequency shifter 7 side according to the selection of optical switches 4 and 5. Consequently, it is possible to measure the characteristics of the optical fiber by means of a BOTDR, BOTDA or a COTDR.