Lightera Labs is an industrial research organization focused on advanced fiber optic technologies and sensing solutions, with expertise in optical materials, fiber design, and photonic systems for communications and monitoring applications. The organization develops innovative fiber-based platforms that enable long-range, high-sensitivity sensing across infrastructure and environmental domains. NEC Laboratories America collaborates with Lightera Labs to advance research in optical sensing, distributed systems, signal processing, and data analytics. Read about our latest collaborations with Lightera Labs.
We report a record long 200.6 km distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) link without inline ampli-fication, 28.6% improvement of sensing range has been achieved by using three segments of enhanced-scattering fibre (ESF) with progressively higher scattering enhancements.
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