The SoFiN Project participation was completed with yet another talk at one of the Workshops titled Digital Signal Processing for Optical Fiber Sensing under Signal processing for optical communication and computing where our colleague Dr. Roman Ermakov from DTU, addressed the key question “How to Model Temperature Perturbations in φ-OTDR?” A new approach for generating…
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An exciting week at the 51st European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC 2025, 28th Sep. – 02 Oct., with a strong participation of the SoFiN Project. Important work developed as part of the project was presented as two papers; one by Adtran and NKT demonstrating the hybrid piezoelectric and thermal laser tuning to fastly interrogate…
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Individual components of the SoFiN interrogator were characterized, and all main elements were combined into one system. With this system, the overall functionality has been successfully verified, and all elements are integrated into a portable demonstrator. Congratulations to our leading partner Adtran for driving the development of the interrogator platform from architectural design to integration…
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SoFiN Project results from the work on algorithms developed for machine learning-enhanced fiber sensing to extract meaningful information from sensing measurement data, enhance signal quality under various noise conditions and further model the Rayleigh backscattering process in #OTDR systems, were presented last week at the world’s leading event on lasers, photonics, and electro-optics; CLEO Conference…
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Partner FAU recently completed a 100-meter long single-mode fiber installation outdoors and accessible from the fiber sensing lab. This setup will allow our colleagues to observe weather influences and differences between day and night. Esther Renner, our leading researcher working on this exciting part of the project mentioned “Our advanced Raman-Distributed Temperature Sensor System will…
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Invaluable time well spent last week at SPIE West Photonics 2025 where at this stage of SoFiN project it was a great opportunity to successfully knock at worldwide photonics doors, discuss technological progress with peers, and even feel proud visiting one of our partner’s booth. In addition, we joined special workshops arranged with other EU…
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A great start of the new year 2025 with our M26 physical 2-day Consortium Meeting which took place on the 15-16 Jan. at Meiningen, Germany and hosted by our project partner Adtran, Inc. Fulfilled with both physical and online participation, colleagues from all partners presented progress to-date and discussed next steps towards full SoFiN system…
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SoFiN results from parallel work progressed by technical partners FAU, DTU and ADTRAN were recently presented at two prestigious conferences. Results from the research performed by partner FAU were presented last week on 10-14th Nov. at IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2024, which is considered the flagship meeting of the IEEE Photonics Society covering a broad…
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New scientific progress achieved as part of SoFiN project now published. The scientific publication presents the latest research advancements and results stemming as part of the significant project work exploring temperature prediction with a convolutional neural network performed by colleagues Esther Renner et al. from Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Schmauss team at FAU – Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat, Erlangen-Nürnberg,…
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SoFiN project steps forward with continuous progress in the developments of the novel fiber optic sensing network, to be easily controllable and adaptable by software with capability of analysing a plethora of new data from different types of sensing elements. As part of the ongoing developments, two technical partners from the project, FAU leading the…
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