ClassID:

167121

G01M11/3172 - CPC Classification

Classification description:

Testing of optical apparatus; Testing structures by optical methods not otherwise provided for; Testing of optical devices, constituted by fibre optics or optical waveguides with a light emitter and a light receiver being disposed at the same side of a fibre or waveguide end-face, e.g. reflectometers Reflectometers detecting the back-scattered light in the frequency-domain, e.g. OFDR, FMCW, heterodyne detection

Recent Application in this class:
#1
20260118215
2026-04-30

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TESTING OPTICAL LINK BASED ON OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY

#2
20260009695
2026-01-08

OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER MODULE, OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER SYSTEM

#3
20250290827
2025-09-18

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM AN OPTICAL SIGNAL

#4
20250264374
2025-08-21

CALCULATING DISTRIBUTED TWIST OF A MULTI-FIBER 3D SHAPE SENSOR BUNDLE (MFB) USING OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (OFDR) PHASE INTERROGATION DATA

#5
20250027839
2025-01-23

Calculating distributed twist of a multi-fiber 3D shape sensor bundle (MFB) using optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) phase interrogation data

#6
20240402043
2024-12-05

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING OPTICAL DEVICES USING AN OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER (OTDR) DEVICE

#7
20240175726
2024-05-30

Technique for analyzing a spectrum of backscattered light in an optical fiber

#8
20240044638
2024-02-08

Methods and apparatus to determine a shape of an optical fiber sensor

#9
20230400379
2023-12-14

DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MEASURING THE AMOUNT OF FREQUENCY MODULATION

#10
20230314277
2023-10-05

TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING DISTANCE BETWEEN A FIBER END AND A TARGET

#11
20230175922
2023-06-08

Systems for Mechanical Static and Dynamic Characterization of Structures and Adjustment of Radio Frequency Aperture and Transmission

#12
20230127870
2023-04-27

System and method for performing in-service optical network certification

#13
20220404144
2022-12-22

Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend angle associated with a multi-core fiber

#14
20220381644
2022-12-01

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM AN OPTICAL SIGNAL

#15
20220149934
2022-05-12

Device for measuring optical frequency reflection and measurement method thereof

#16
20220050011
2022-02-17

Apparatus and method for performing time domain reflectormetry

#17
20220029703
2022-01-27

System and method for performing in-service optical network certification

#18
20210381820
2021-12-09

Tunable light source for optical fiber proximity and testing

#19
20210359755
2021-11-18

Process and device for measurement of physical quantity based on Rayleigh backscattering

#20
20210239568
2021-08-05

Fiber-optic testing source and fiber-optic testing receiver for multi-fiber cable testing

#21
20210231526
2021-07-29

Multi-spectral feature sensing techniques and sensors for determining a phase shift by comparing a measured narrowband response to a known wideband response

#22
20210226698
2021-07-22

Method and apparatus for detecting a disturbance in a medium based on shifted filtered phase information for a plurality of locations

#23
20210131796
2021-05-06

Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend angle associated with a multi-core fiber

#24
20210131787
2021-05-06

Device for determining a layer thickness in a multilayer film

#25
20210080350
2021-03-18

Brillouin and rayleigh distributed sensor

#26
20210067243
2021-03-04

System and method for performing in-service optical network certification

#27
20210003474
2021-01-07

Optical fiber monitoring method, and optical fiber monitoring system

#28
20200378866
2020-12-03

Registering measured optical fiber interferometric data with reference optical fiber interferometric data

#29
20200318951
2020-10-08

Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend angle associated with a multi-core fiber

#30
20200259563
2020-08-13

Method and apparatus for detecting a disturbance in a medium

#31
20200228199
2020-07-16

System and method for performing in-service optical network certification

#32
20200200968
2020-06-25

Method of making a distributed optical fiber sensor having enhanced Rayleigh scattering and enhanced temperature stability, and monitoring systems employing same

#33
20200200646
2020-06-25

Single-ended probing through a multimode fiber having distributed reflectors

#34
20200141719
2020-05-07

Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend angle associated with a multi-core fiber

#35
20200096416
2020-03-26

Fiber-optic testing source and fiber-optic testing receiver for multi-fiber cable testing

#36
20200056958
2020-02-20

Nonlinearity measuring method and nonlinearity measuring device

#37
20200044733
2020-02-06

System and method for performing in-service optical network certification

#38
20190391341
2019-12-26

Interferometric alignment of optical multicore fibers to be connected

#39
20190386739
2019-12-19

Method and apparatus for detecting a disturbance in a medium using threshold based detection

#40
20190331479
2019-10-31

Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend angle associated with a multi-core fiber

#41
20190260469
2019-08-22

System and method for performing in-service optical network certification

#42
20190219480
2019-07-18

Single-shot network analyzer (SINA)

#43
20190212211
2019-07-11

HIGH TEMPERATURE FIBER OPTIC CABLE WITH STRAIN RELIEF AND PROTECTION FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENTS

#44
20190195731
2019-06-27

Optical fiber characteristics measuring apparatus and optical fiber characteristics measuring method

#45
20190064432
2019-02-28

Method of making a distributed optical fiber sensor having enhanced Rayleigh scattering and enhanced temperature stability, and monitoring systems employing same

#46
20190033062
2019-01-31

Methods and systems for correcting for nonlinear twist response in optical shape sensing with spun multicore fibers

#47
20190007133
2019-01-03

System and method for performing in-service optical network certification

#48
20180356203
2018-12-13

Method and apparatus for motion compensation in interferometric sensing systems

#49
20180348086
2018-12-06

Brillouin and rayleigh distributed sensor

#50
20180283985
2018-10-04

Fiber-optic testing source and fiber-optic testing receiver for multi-fiber cable testing

#51
20180245907
2018-08-30

Apparatus and method for generating 3-D data for an anatomical target using optical fiber shape sensing

#52
20180238680
2018-08-23

Sensitive optical fiber shape sensing based on shape-related optical polarization evolution

#53
20180195856
2018-07-12

Optical fiber and method and apparatus for accurate fiber optic sensing under multiple stimuli

#54
20180172920
2018-06-21

Interferometric alignment of optical multicore fibers to be connected

#55
20180058983
2018-03-01

System and method for optical frequency domain reflectometer

#56
20180031471
2018-02-01

Non-linear frequency scan optical frequency-domain reflectometry having a processor to estimate a backscattering profile of an optical fiber by applying a predefined function to a beat signal

#57
20170370704
2017-12-28

Dissimilar cores in multicore optical fiber for strain and temperature separation

#58
20170363410
2017-12-21

AN OVERLAPPED CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATING SENSING FIBER AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PARAMETER MEASUREMENT USING SAME

#59
20170346551
2017-11-30

Method and apparatus for detecting a disturbance in a medium

#60
20170328809
2017-11-16

Devices and methods for characterization of distributed fiber bend and stress

#61
20170322113
2017-11-09

Registering measured optical fiber interferometric data with reference optical fiber interferometric data

#62
20170314973
2017-11-02

Resonating measurement system using improved resolution

#63
20170307475
2017-10-26

Spectrally efficient optical frequency-domain reflectometry using I/Q detection

#64
20170307474
2017-10-26

Method and Apparatus for Measuring the Local Birefringence along an Optical Waveguide

#65
20170307473
2017-10-26

Distributed fiber bend and stress measurement for determining optical fiber reliability by multi-wavelength optical reflectometry

#66
20170299463
2017-10-19

Brillouin and rayleigh distributed sensor

#67
20170067794
2017-03-09

Optical fiber characteristic measuring device

#68
20170010385
2017-01-12

FIBER OPTIC ARRAY HAVING DENSELY SPACED, WEAK REFLECTORS

#69
20160258839
2016-09-08

Methods and apparatus for measurement of modal characteristics of multimode fiber using Rayleigh scatter

#70
20160245719
2016-08-25

Optical pulse compression reflectometer

#71
20160245643
2016-08-25

OFDR device and OFDR method

#72
20160231197
2016-08-11

Kerr phase-interrogator for sensing and signal processing applications

#73
20160223710
2016-08-04

Arrayed wave division multiplexing to improve spatial resolution of IOFDR fiber Bragg sensing system

#74
20160202142
2016-07-14

Distributed multi-channel coherent optical fiber sensing system

#75
20160191152
2016-06-30

System and method for performing in-service optical fiber network certification

#76
20160153864
2016-06-02

Integrated optics reflectometer

#77
20160146699
2016-05-26

Methods and apparatus segmented calibration of a sensing optical fiber

#78
20160123837
2016-05-05

Devices and methods for characterization of distributed fiber bend and stress

#79
20160123715
2016-05-05

Overlapped chirped fiber Bragg grating sensing fiber and methods and apparatus for parameter measurement using same

#80
20160116369
2016-04-28

Arrayed wave division multiplex to extend range of IOFDR fiber bragg sensing system

#81
20150377692
2015-12-31

OFDR system for localized vibration detection

#82
20150345324
2015-12-03

Method and apparatus for measuring operational gas turbine engine housing displacement and temperature by a distributed fiber optic sensing system utilizing optical frequency domain reflectometry

#83
20150263804
2015-09-17

Optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) system

#84
20150198503
2015-07-16

Method and system for measuring an optical loss value of an optical fiber link

#85
20150160092
2015-06-11

Method and apparatus for acoustic sensing using multiple optical pulses

#86
20150139637
2015-05-21

Monitoring of a passive optical network (PON)

#87
20140176937
2014-06-26

Distributed disturbance sensing device and the related demodulation method based on polarization sensitive optical frequency domain reflectometry

#88
20140140691
2014-05-22

Fiber optic network interrogation tool for combined swept-heterodyne optical spectrum analysis and optical frequency-domain reflectometry

#89
20140022536
2014-01-23

Fast brillouin optical time domain analysis for dynamic sensing

#90
20140016926
2014-01-16

System and method for performing in-service optical network certification

#91
20120174677
2012-07-12

OPTICAL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR A SPATIALLY RESOLVED MEASUREMENT OF MECHANICAL PARAMETERS, IN PARTICULAR MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS BY MEANS OF GLASS FIBERS

#92
20120013914
2012-01-19

Apparatus and methods for uniform frequency sample clocking

#93
20110261361
2011-10-27

System and method for effective isolation of an interferometer

#94
20110181871
2011-07-28

Combined swept-carrier and swept-modulation frequency optical frequency domain reflectometry

#95
20110153543
2011-06-23

Fiber identification using optical frequency-domain reflectometer

#96
20110110659
2011-05-12

Method of operating an optical transmission system, optical transmitter, and optical receiver

#97
20110109898
2011-05-12

Optical position and/or shape sensing

#98
20110001959
2011-01-06

Optical fibre circuit monitoring system and monitoring device included in this system

#99
20100321702
2010-12-23

Compensating for time varying phase changes in interferometric measurements

#100
20100284063
2010-11-11

Optical amplifier

#101
20100220317
2010-09-02

Method and apparatus for acoustic sensing using multiple optical pulses

#102
20100145648
2010-06-10

System and method for correcting sampling errors associated with radiation source tuning rate fluctuations in swept-wavelength interferometry

#103
20100097615
2010-04-22

Optical reflectometry and optical reflectometer

#104
20090273775
2009-11-05

Scattered light measuring device

#105
20090268196
2009-10-29

Microwave photonic frequency domain reflectometer

#106
20090207401
2009-08-20

Apparatus for characterizing fiber Bragg gratings

#107
20090103100
2009-04-23

Compensating for time varying phase changes in interferometric measurements

#108
20090103072
2009-04-23

Method and a system for determining a physical property as a function of position

#109
20090097844
2009-04-16

Sensing a disturbance

#110
20090046295
2009-02-19

Apparatus and methods for uniform frequency sample clocking

#111
20080232242
2008-09-25

Evaluating the position of a disturbance

#112
20080225276
2008-09-18

System for measuring the wavelength dispersion and nonlinear coefficient of an optical fiber

#113
20080204726
2008-08-28

Apparatus for characterizing fiber bragg gratings

#114
20080144016
2008-06-19

Method and apparatus for acoustic sensing using multiple optical pulses

#115
20080129983
2008-06-05

Optical reflectometry using integrated VCSEL photodiode chip

#116
20080031563
2008-02-07

Systems and methods for measuring signal phase shift caused by optical fibers

#117
20080024785
2008-01-31

High resolution interferometric optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) beyond the laser coherence length

#118
20080007718
2008-01-10

Polarization diversity detection without a polarizing beam splitter

#119
20080002187
2008-01-03

Distributed strain and temperature discrimination in polarization maintaining fiber

#120
20070196058
2007-08-23

Apparatus and method for identification of optical cable

#121
20070171400
2007-07-26

Natural fiber span reflectometer providing a spread spectrum virtual sensing array capability

#122
20070051882
2007-03-08

System and method for monitoring a well

#123
20070035722
2007-02-15

System for measuring the wavelength dispersion and nonlinear coefficient of an optical fiber

#124
20070025432
2007-02-01

Method of characterizing fiber Bragg gratings using iterative processing

#125
20070018635
2007-01-25

Optical reflectometry analysis with a time-adjustment of partial responses

#126
20060280399
2006-12-14

Detecting different spectral components of an optical signal by means of an optical shutter

#127
20060215975
2006-09-28

Apparatus for measuring differential mode delay of multimode optical fiber

#128
20060204165
2006-09-14

Calculation of birefringence in a waveguide based on Rayleigh scatter

#129
20060164627
2006-07-27

Polarization diversity detection without a polarizing beam splitter

#130
20060029342
2006-02-09

Method and system for measuring the wavelength dispersion and nonlinear coefficient of an optical fiber, method of manufacturing optical fibers, method of measuring wavelength-dispersion distribution, method of compensating for measurement errors, and method of specifying conditions of measurement

#131
20060028637
2006-02-09

Natural fiber span reflectometer providing a virtual differential signal sensing array capability

#132
20060028636
2006-02-09

Natural fiber span reflectometer providing a virtual phase signal sensing array capability

#133
20050219512
2005-10-06

Identifying optical fiber segments and determining characteristics of an optical device under test based on fiber segment scatter pattern data

#134
20050094936
2005-05-05

Wavelength dispersion probing system

#135
20050058417
2005-03-17

Method and system for measuring the wavelength dispersion and nonlinear coefficient of an optical fiber, method of manufacturing optical fibers, method of measuring wavelength-dispersion distribution, method of compensating for measurement errors, and method of specifying conditions of measurement