Transoceanic Phase and Polarization Fiber Sensing using Real-Time Coherent Transceiver

We implement a real-time coherent transceiver with fast streaming outputs for environmental sensing. Continuous sensing using phase and equalizer outputs over 12800 km of a submarine cable is demonstrated to enable time resolved spectroscopy in broad spectral range of 10 mHz 1 kHz.

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