Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing Systems — DAS, DTS, DSS and OFDR
Compare distributed fiber sensing architectures for dynamic-event detection, temperature, strain, dense specimen mapping and high-resolution reflectometry.
DAS Distributed Acoustic Sensing — Applications and System Selection
How DAS detects and locates route activity, what controls classification performance, and how to select an OptaSense or Silixa configuration.
DTS Distributed Temperature Sensing — Applications and System Selection
How calibrated Raman DTS maps temperature along power cables, tunnels and industrial routes, with practical system-selection criteria.
Distributed Strain Sensing (DSS/DTSS) — Applications and System Selection
How distributed strain sensing maps relative deformation along pipelines, ground and structures, including temperature compensation and mode trade-offs.
ODiSI 7100 and OBR — High-Resolution Fiber Sensing and Reflectometry
Select a compatible ODiSI 7100 or OBR mode by specimen length, gage pitch or sampling, channel count, update rate and measurement objective.
How to Select a Specialty Fiber Fusion System: FITEL S185 Configurator
Select a FITEL S185 fusion splicer, holders and NorthLab/3SAE equipment for a complete specialty-fiber workflow.
One-jumper OLTS reference: the correct procedure and 7 errors
Learn how to set a one-jumper reference in AEM TestPro, verify the TRCs, and prevent contamination, the wrong method, or a disturbed Tx connection from skewing results.
Fiber Optic Measurement Academy — free online training with simulators
We have launched the Fiber Optic Measurement Academy: 7 chapters and 17 interactive simulators — from connector inspection, through OTDR, to Tier 1/Tier 2 certification. Free registration.
Fiber-optic monitoring of pipeline strain and settlement
A single fiber-optic cable turns into thousands of sensors along the entire pipeline route. An interactive guide to BOTDR, OFDR and FBG technologies — monitoring of strain, ground settlement and infrastructure integrity.
OTDR-AI — free browser-based OTDR trace analysis (beta)
OTDR-AI is a free (beta) browser-based tool for analyzing OTDR measurements: .sor files from any manufacturer, automatic PASS/FAIL analysis, bidirectional measurement, PDF reports. An INTERLAB development project.