[WC2] Fibers and Devices for Fiber Sensing

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM JST(2:00 AM - 2:30 AM UTC)Invited

[WC2-1] Engineered Fibers for Distributed Sensing in Telecom Networks

○Paul S Westbrook¹, Benyuan Zhu¹, Kenneth S Feder¹, Zhou Shi¹, Tristan Kremp¹, Yaowen Li², Ting Wang², David DiGiovanni¹ (1. OFS Labs, Somerset, NJ, 08873 (United States of America), 2. NEC Lab America, Princeton, NJ 08540 (United States of America))

We discuss recent advances in the use of engineered optical fibers for distributed sensing in telecom networks. Fibers with low attenuation and high back scatter can greatly increase acoustic sensing signals.