US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Aug. 12 for "Brillouin gain spectrum distribution measurement method and equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,527, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Brillouin gain spectrum distribution measurement method and equipment" was invented by Tomokazu Oda (Musashino, Japan), Daisuke Iida (Musashino, Japan), Atsushi Nakamura (Musashino, Japan), Yusuke Koshikiya (Musashino, Japan) and Nazuki Honda (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a Brillouin gain spectrum distribution measuring method and apparatus capable of measuring a BGS, having a line width narrower than usual, in a distributed manner in the longitudinal direction of an optical fiber ...