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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2005
Applicant:
Stuart M. Abbott, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Stuart M. Abbott, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Tyco Telecommunications (US) Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A monitoring system and method may be used to monitor an optical communication system. A monitoring system and method may be used to derive loop gain data sets from optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) or coherent optical time domain reflectometry (COTDR) data. A monitoring system and method may also use differential monitoring techniques to obtain data representing gain tilt in the transmission system and to locate an anomalous loss or gain in the transmission system.