The exciting advancements in optical technology were explored at the recent 2024 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC) held from March 24 to 28 in San Diego, USA. It is considered one of the largest events around fiber optic communication and networking, with 12,500 registrants from 74 countries, 630 exhibiting companies and numerous sessions with presentations from renowned industry…
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SoFiN was represented by CyRIC at SPIE Photonics Europe this week. An important milestone of the event celebrating 20 years of research presented at a cross-disciplinary event highlighting compelling optics and photonics technologies — from digital optics to quantum technologies to optical imaging and sensing with additional topics including THz photonics, 3D printed optics, photonic…
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Smart technologies, grids, transmission and distribution. A network utilizing novel digital technologies, sensors and software for improved supply and demand with minimized costs and maintained stability and reliability. These and many more exciting topics are currently being showcased and discussed at Enlit Europe 2023 with a dedicated EU Projects Zone and an overall Enlit aim…
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Pleased to share some further scientific updates were recently presented at the 49th European Conference on Optical Communications, October 2023, by Florian Azendorf, Adtran Networks SE, as poster presentation titled “Acoustic Sensing after 50 km Transmission Fibre using Coherent Optical Subassembly” of initial results related to the SoFiN multi-sensing platform.
A successful M10 SoFiN project meeting took place on 13th – 14th September in Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. The meeting was hosted by the project partner Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, FAU – LHFT. The two-day meeting was a great opportunity for all partner teams involved in SoFiN Consortium to discuss in-person, the up-to-date progress, and look further into technical matters, issues and…
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Excited to share an initial scientific outreach of the SoFiN project was recently performed by Dr.-Ing. Michael Eiselt from project partner Adtran Networks, at the OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), with an invited presentation on the monitoring of optical networks with correlation methods, which included up-to-date project results. To stay updated with news as soon…
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“Pause for a minute and think what life would be without things like electricity in buildings, direct water supply to every house or internet connection in every corner.” SoFiN Press Release, CyprusMail, March 17, 2023, Cyprus. SoFiN Press Release link:
A major importance of distributed sensing lies within the field of critical infrastructure monitoring. In SoFiN, three different use cases will be applied for the innovative flexible system to be developed and these include: 1) Monitor voltage power cables, 2) Supervision of telecommunication infrastructure and 3) Supervision of water supply network to detect water pipe…
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“Pause for a minute and think what life would be without things like electricity in buildings, direct water supply to every house or internet connection in every corner. Nowadays, it is difficult to imagine living without these necessities. Remember that day or even that one hour with a power cut, water supply cut or internet…
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A successful SoFiN in-person and online meeting was held on 21st Feb. 2023 in Nicosia, Cyprus and hosted by CyRIC | Cyprus Research and Innovation Center. After the online KO meeting back in Dec. 2022, this was a great opportunity for the SoFiN Consortium to meet in person and discuss in detail the project with focus…
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