Invention Application
- Patent Title: OPTICAL FIBER TERMINATION USING A REFERENCE SOURCE
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Application No.: US15801644Application Date: 2017-11-02
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Publication No.: US20190128776A1Publication Date: 2019-05-02
- Inventor: Jose M. Castro , Richard J. Pimpinella , Yu Huang , Bulent Kose , Asher S. Novick
- Applicant: Panduit Corp.
- Applicant Address: US IL Tinley Park
- Assignee: Panduit Corp.
- Current Assignee: Panduit Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Tinley Park
- Main IPC: G01M11/00
- IPC: G01M11/00 ; G02B6/38

Abstract:
Examples disclosed herein illustrate systems and methods to determine and evaluate the quality of mechanical splices of optical fibers using insertion loss estimation. In at least some of the disclosed systems and methods, an optical fiber termination system may include a reference fiber coupling a light source and a stub fiber of a fiber optic connector, a digital camera sensor and lens to capture images of scattered light emanating from a portion of the fiber optic connector and a portion of the reference fiber both in a field of view (FOV) of the digital camera sensor, and a processor. The processor may analyze digital images of scatter light emitted from at least a portion of the fiber optic connector and the reference fiber to estimate insertion loss at the fiber optic connector.
Public/Granted literature
- US10514511B2 Optical fiber termination using a reference source Public/Granted day:2019-12-24
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