Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical-fiber path searching method, optical-fiber path searching system, signal processing device, and program
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Application No.: US15734211Application Date: 2019-05-29
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Publication No.: US11976962B2Publication Date: 2024-05-07
- Inventor: Yoshifumi Wakisaka , Daisuke Iida , Kunihiro Toge , Tetsuya Manabe
- Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP 18107971 2018.06.05
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/021356 2019.05.29
- International Announcement: WO2019/235330A 2019.12.12
- Date entered country: 2020-12-01
- Main IPC: G01B17/04
- IPC: G01B17/04 ; G01D5/353 ; G01H9/00

Abstract:
An object is to provide an optical fiber path search method, an optical fiber path search system, a signal processor, and a program that can be operated free of the effects of walls, supporting members, and the like so that only a signal generated by an acoustic wave propagating through the air can be extracted. An optical fiber path search system according to the present invention utilizes DAS and includes: a vibration source 304 configured to provide an acoustic wave to a predetermined region; a light reflection measurement device 305 configured to be connected to one end of an optical fiber 302 and configured to measure vibration of a change in an optical path length from the other end of the optical fiber 302 to a point in the optical fiber 302 due to the acoustic wave provided by the vibration source 304; and a signal processor 313 configured to extract a signal component in a high frequency region higher than a preset cutoff frequency from a signal of the vibration of the change in the optical path length measured by the light reflection measurement device 305 and calculate a distance between the vibration source 304 and the point in the optical fiber 302 using the signal component.
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