Advances in Fiber Sensing

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Publication Date: 1/20/2026

Event: SPIE Photonics West

Reference: pp. 1-3, 2026

Authors: Yue-Kai Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Ezra Ip, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Fatih Yaman, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Jian Fang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yoshiaki Aono, NEC Corporation; Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

Abstract: In this talk, we will present recent technological advances in fiber sensing applications with long monitoring distances orextending multiple fiber spans. In forward-transmission-based sensing, adaptive beamforming techniques weredemonstrated to achieve multi-event vibration sensing in environments with interference and jamming with significantimprovements in signal reconstruction, noise reduction, and interference rejection from other locations. For sensing oversubmarine cables with many fiber spans with repeaters, it is shown that distributed reflection from Rayleigh scattering canbe detected with sufficient SNR for fiber sensing using HLLB paths. In particular, longitudinal averaging of receivedRayleigh scattered signals can facilitate state-of-polarization-based, multi-span sensing using eigenvalue method.

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