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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2006
Applicant:
Josef Beller, Tuebingen, DE;
Inventor:
Josef Beller, Tuebingen, DE;
Assignee:
Agilent Technologies Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus and to a method of determination of an optical property of a DUT, in particular of an optical fiber, by means of OTDR, comprising the steps of: coupling an initial optical signal into the DUT, detecting a response signal of the DUT, and determining the optical property of the DUT by means of OTDR using at least a second order backscatter part of the response signal.