Broadband buzz: Periodical cicadas’ chorus measured with fiber optic cables
From Entomological Society of America 11/12/23 Hung from a common utility pole, a fiber optic cable—the kind bringing high-speed internet to more and more American households—can be turned into a sensor to detect temperature changes, vibrations, and even sound, through an emerging technology called distributed fiber optic sensing. However, as NEC Labs America photonics researcher […]