{"title":"More Than Communications: Environment Monitoring using Existing Optical Fiber Network Infrastructure","authors":"Y. Aono, E. Ip, P. Ji","doi":"10.1364/ofc.2020.w3g.1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We propose reusing existing optical cables in metropolitan networks for distributed sensing using a bidirectional, dual-band architecture where communications and sensing signals can coexist with weak interaction on the same optical fiber.","PeriodicalId":173355,"journal":{"name":"2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2020 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ofc.2020.w3g.1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We propose reusing existing optical cables in metropolitan networks for distributed sensing using a bidirectional, dual-band architecture where communications and sensing signals can coexist with weak interaction on the same optical fiber.