First Field Demonstration of Hollow-Core Fibre Supporting Distributed Acoustic Sensing and DWDM Transmission

Publication Date: 9/22/2024

Event: 2024 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)

Reference: pp. 1-4, 2024

Authors: Ezra Ip, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yue-Kai Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Junqiang Hu, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Giacomo Borraccini, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Andrea d Amico, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon; Tiejun Xia, Verizon; Jamie Lynn, NEC Corporation; Danny Peterson, OFS; Brian Managan, OFS; Kyle Dube, OFS; Benyuan Zhu, OFS; Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Koji Asahi, NEC Corporation

Abstract: We demonstrate a method for measuring the backscatter coefficient of hollow-core fibre (HCF), and show the feasibility of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) with simultaneous 9.6-Tb/s DWDM transmission over a 1.6-km field-deployed HCF cable.

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