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Phase measuring method and signal processing device

US12345555B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 21, 2019
Grant dateJul 1, 2025
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Expiry dateSep 1, 2041

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01D5/35358
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A phase measurement method is presented which causes wavelength-multiplexed pulsed light to be incident on a measurement target optical fiber, produces a scattered light vector obtained by plotting scattered light from the measurement target optical fiber for each wavelength onto a two-dimensional plane having the in-phase component thereof on the horizontal axis and the orthogonal component thereof on the vertical axis, rotates the produced scattered light vector for each wavelength at each place in the measurement target optical fiber to align the directions of the vectors, generates a new vector by calculating the arithmetic average of the vectors having the aligned directions, and calculates the phase by using the values of the in-phase and orthogonal components of the generated new vector.

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