Environmental Sensing over Telecom Fiber Cables
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2027 | Viewed by 44
Editors
Interests: high-capacity optical transmission; digital signal processing techniques; space-division multiplexing; distributed fiber sensing
Interests: photonics; optical communications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental sensing over telecom fiber cables has recently become a trending topic. By 2020, more than 4 billion kilometers of installed telecom fibers had been installed worldwide, with another 500 million kilometers being added annually. Fiber sensors have applications in traffic monitoring, cable route identification, cable hazard monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, sound detection, ship detection, wildlife monitoring, seismology and oceanography. Transforming existing telecom infrastructure into a wide-area sensor network could potentially unlock a trove of information valuable to cable operators, the scientific research community, and local authorities, while generating new revenue for telecom operators.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate recent advances related to environmental sensing using telecom cables, and it will address both theoretical aspects and practical applications.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Distributed fiber sensors based on Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman scattering;
- Sensors based on forward transmission;
- Digital signal processing and artificial intelligence algorithms;
- Modeling of propagation characteristics and performance of fiber sensors;
- Photonic integrated circuits for fiber sensing;
- Integrated sensing and telecommunications;
- Sensors over terrestrial cables, submarine cables, and within data centers;
- Sensing for new fibers, including multimode, multicore and hollow-core fibers.
Dr. Ezra Ip
Prof. Dr. Lu Chao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- distributed fiber optic sensing
- integrated sensing and communications
- optical time-domain reflectometry
- optical frequency-domain reflectometry
- neural networks
- integrated sensing and communications
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