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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
Rüdiger Mästle, Böblingen, DE;
Rüdiger Mästle, Böblingen, DE;
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus and to a method of optical spectrum analysis of an optical spectrum of a light beam (), comprising the steps of selecting a certain part of the optical spectrum of the light beam () to provide a filtered light beam (), detecting the filtered light beam () to provide an electrical signal corresponding to a power amplitude (O(λ)) of the filtered light beam (), detecting the filtered light beam () to provide an electrical signal corresponding to a wavelength of the filtered light beam (), and providing the power amplitude as a function of the wavelength of the filtered light beam ().