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Laser interferometry enables to remotely measure microscopical length changes of deployed telecommunication cables originating from earthquakes. Long range and compatibility with data traffic make it unique to the exploration of remote…
Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) has become a popular method of observing seismic wavefields: backscattered pulses of light reveal strains or strain-rates at any location along a fiber-optic cable. In contrast, a few newer systems…
This manuscript is concerned with phase changes of signals transmitted through deforming optical fibres. As a first result, it establishes an exact relation between observable phase changes and the deformation tensor along the fibre. This…
It is a well-established principle that cross-correlating seismic observations at different receiver locations can yield estimates of band-limited inter-receiver Green's functions. This principle, known as seismic interferometry, is a…
We present a scalable method for geolocalizing buried fiber-optic cables using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and traffic-induced quasi-static seismic signals. Assuming access to one end of the fiber, the method fuses DAS measurements…
Many protocols for long distance quantum communication require interferometric phase stability over long distances of optical fibers. In this paper we investigate the phase noise in long optical fibers both in laboratory environment and in…
We present a systematic approach to optimise distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) fibre-optic cable layouts using global optimisation techniques. Our method represents cable geometries using splines, enabling efficient exploration of layouts…
Fiber-optic sensing technologies based on transmission offer an alternative to scattering-based Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS). Being able to interrogate fibers that are thousands of kilometers long, opens opportunities for…
A rigid connection between the optical fiber and the rock makes amplitudes of 'fiber strain' measured with Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) equal to 'rock strain'. We demonstrate this by running four interrogator units (IU) on a DAS…
Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is becoming increasingly popular in microseismic monitoring operations. This data acquisition technology converts fiber-optic cables into dense arrays of seismic sensors that can sample the seismic…
Widely distributed optical fibers, together with phase-sensitive laser interferometry, can expand seismic detection methods and have great potential for epicenter localization. In this paper, we propose an integral response method based on…
Nowadays, long distance optical fibre transmission systems use polarization diversity multiplexed signals to enhance transmission performance. Distributed acoustic sensors (DAS) use the same propagation medium ie. single mode optical fibre,…
We present the first experimental demonstration over a 43-km-long urban fiber network of a local two-way optical frequency comparison, which does not require any synchronization of the measurements. It was combined with a regular…
Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is an emerging technology for earthquake monitoring and subsurface imaging. The recorded seismic signals by DAS have several distinct characteristics, such as unknown coupling effects, strong anthropogenic…
Timescale comparison between optical atomic clocks over ground-to-space and terrestrial free-space laser links will have enormous benefits for fundamental and applied science, from measurements of fundamental constants and searches for dark…
The maintenance and repair of optical fiber networks often requires the discrimination of underground cables among a group of buried ones. Presently, the methods commonly used are either inefficient or harmful to the fiber cable. In this…
We present a long-range fiber-optic environmental deformation sensor based on active phase noise cancellation (PNC) in metrological frequency dissemination. PNC sensing exploits recordings of a compensation frequency that is commonly…
The power of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) lies in its ability to sample deformation signals along an optical fiber at hundreds of locations with only one interrogation unit (IU). While the IU is calibrated to record 'fiber strain',…
Precise measurements in optical and atomic systems often rely on differential interferometry. This method allows to handle large and correlated phase noise contributions -- such as environmental vibrations, thermal fluctuations, or…
We demonstrate the detectability of snow avalanches using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) with existing fiber-optic telecommunication cables. For this, during winter 2021/2022, we interrogated a 10 km long cable closely following the…