IPC 2025 (IEEE Photonics Conference) is a major international event dedicated to photonics research and applications. It includes technical sessions on optical communications, integrated photonics, quantum optics, and laser technologies. NEC Laboratories America regularly contributes to IPC through research presentations and collaborations with academic partners. The conference serves as a platform for sharing progress in high-speed communication systems and photonic device innovation. IPC 2025 underscores the importance of light-based technologies in global connectivity. https://ieee-ipc.org/
Eric Blow of NEC Labs will address how machine-learning methods applied to distributed acoustic-sensing data can monitor facility perimeters and detect intrusion via walk, dig, or drive events over buried optical fibre—for example achieving ~90% classification accuracy.