First Field Trial of Distributed Fiber Optical Sensing and High-Speed Communication Over an Operational Telecom Network

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Publication Date: 1/1/2020

Event: IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology

Reference: 38(1):75-81, 2020

Authors: Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Milad Salemi, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Rutgers University; Yuheng Chen, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Jingnan Zhao, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Rutgers University; Tiejun J. Xia, Verizon; Glenn A. Wellbrock, Verizon; Yue-Kai Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Giovanni Milione, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Ezra Ip, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Philip N. Ji, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yoshiaki Aono, NEC Corporation

Abstract: To the best of our knowledge, we present the first field trial of distributed fiber optical sensing (DFOS) and high-speed communication, comprising a coexisting system, over an operation telecom network. Using probabilistic-shaped (PS) DP-144QAM, a 36.8 Tb/s with an 8.28-b/s/Hz spectral efficiency (SE) (48-Gbaud channels, 50-GHz channel spacing) was achieved. Employing DFOS technology, road traffic, i.e., vehicle speed and vehicle density, were sensed with 98.5% and 94.5% accuracies, respectively, as compared to video analytics. Additionally, road conditions, i.e., roughness level was sensed with >85% accuracy via a machine learning based classifier.

Publication Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8798753