Utilizing Distributed Acoustic Sensing with Telecom Fibers for Entomological Observations

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Publication Date: 10/1/2025

Event: ECOC 2025 – The 51st European Conference on Optical Communication

Reference: Tu.04.08.5: 1-4, 2025

Authors: Sarper Ozharar, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yue Tian, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yangmin Ding, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Zhuocheng Jiang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

Abstract: The 2021 emergence of Brood X cicadas was monitored in situ in our testbed using a DAS system connected to an outdoor telecom fiber over a 16-day period. The spectral and energy characteristics of the cicada calling signal has been measured and analyzed.

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