Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

EXFO, the communications industry’s test and measurement experts, announced availability of the industry’s first hollow core fiber optimized OTDR (optical time domain reflectometer) with ...

Light beamed through fiber can be used to test and monitor fiber networks. It is also increasingly being used as a sophisticated sensor for the world around the fiber cable. On the surface, an optical ...

As fibre optic networks grow in both size and complexity, so does the need to monitor their performance in real time. The Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) is a familiar instrument used by ...

Abstract: A novel Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometer using an adaptive frequency analysis (AFA) algorithm enhances spatial resolution by 2.5 times at 10 MHz frequency resolution compared to ...

Abstract: Global telecommunications heavily rely on optical fibers as the foundation of their network infrastructure, making it imperative for network operators to ensure their dependability. The ...

A time domain reflectometer (TDR) measures reflections along a cable. It is similar in principle to radar. To measure those reflections, the TDR transmits an incident signal into the cable and watches ...

A hybrid phase demodulation structure combining a 3 × 3 coupler and Sagnac interferometer is proposed to improve the spatial resolution and phase demodulation performance of the phase-sensitive ...