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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2006
Fumihiko Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Keiji Okamoto, Ibaraki, JP;
Fumihiko Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Keiji Okamoto, Ibaraki, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention is to provide a wavelength dispersion measuring method for an optical fiber capable of measuring a wavelength dispersion in a section extending from an incident end of the optical fiber to an arbitrary point along the way by using a scattering phenomenon in which a scattering coefficient at a local point on the optical fiber is independent of time. Incident light having a known spectral density function S(ω) is caused to be incident on the optical waveguide, and a wavelength dispersion of the section extending from the incident end of the optical waveguide to the arbitrary point along the way by a correlational function between a signal being proportional to a scattered light amplitude generated at a first halfway point and a signal being proportional to a scattered light amplitude generated at a second halfway point.