PULSe H2020 Project webinar on Brillouin Distributed Sensing took place last week on Sept 26 and reviewed all aspects of distributed sensing, i.e. requirements and challenges in design of sensing cable, interrogator as well as special demands for equipment installation and data processing software.

Filippo Bastianini, President and CEO at SestoSensor spoke on ‘Brillouin distributed fiber optic sensing: an integration approach of sensor cable, interrogator and data processing’. Gabriele Bolognini, PULSe Project Coordinator, talked about ‘Distributed Brillouin sensing: fundamentals and applications’ and Isabelle P., R&D Manager for Data Analysis & Interpretation at Ziebel, spoke on ‘Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing in Oil & Gas – Applications in unconventional producers’. The webinar was moderated by Elena Beletkaia, Project Leader at EPIC – EUROPEAN PHOTONICS INDUSTRY CONSORTIUM.

The webinar is now available on demand. You can view it here: https://lnkd.in/dsmGddx

Dates: 21 November 2019

Venue: Smart City Expo, Barcelona, Spain

PULSE will be sponsoring the EPIC Meeting on Structural Monitoring at Smart City Expo in Barcelona. The meeting will focus on the technologies providing information about expected and unexpected changes relevant for infrastructure management and structural health monitoring, therefore assisting in improving the environmental footprints. The meeting is dedicated to the increasing demand for knowledge about the structural health of the infrastructure assets such as, e.g. tunnels and bridges in order to increase safety demands and arrive from fixed time service interventions to a model of service based on their actual needs. Technologies for temperature monitoring of power lines and generators that provide information on their structural health based on the thermal profile will be discussed as well.

Registration and more info

Dates: 12 November 2019

Venue: ADIPEC, Abu Dhabi, UAE

PULSE will be sponsoring the EPIC Meeting on Next Generation Distributed Sensing for the O&G industry at ADIPEC in Abu Dhai. This meeting will focus on the increasing needs from the Oil & Gas industry in accurate well temperature monitoring and generation of the detailed imagery of the physical parameters of well bore. The requirements for the sensors providing these parameters to assist the control of the costs by optimizing the economic and operational performance in the real time will be discussed. The advantages and limitations of the state-of-the-art distributed sensing techniques such as Brillouin-based Distributed Temperature and/or Strain Sensing (DTSS), Raman Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS), Distributed Acoustic/Vibration Sensing (DAS/DVS), Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG), etc. will be reviewed alongside with the developments in these technologies making the sensors more reliable and suitable for the critical processes monitoring.

Date: 26 September 2019

Time: 15:00 hours CEST

The Webinar sponsored by PULSe on Brillouin distributed sensing will review all aspects of distributed sensing, i.e. requirements and challenges in design of sensing cable, interrogator as well as special demands for equipment installation and data processing software. The advantages of employment of Brillouin distributed sensing for various applications such as structural health monitoring, smart grid, soil management, mining, etc., with a special attention to Oil & Gas industry will also be discussed.

For more information on Brillouin distributed sensing, visit the PULSe website

Dates: 12-13 September, 2019

Venue: European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

PULSE will be sponsoring the EPIC Meeting on New Space at European Space Agency whichwill bring together a set of companies to cover some of the key priorities for the “New Space” road map: Topics will include new solutions for miniaturized and low cost LIDAR; RADAR; new concepts for optical network architectures in space; solutions for ultra-low power and miniaturized datacom transceivers; novel cameras and sensors for remote gas analysis and environmental monitoring; new quantum technologies and applications. For details and registration, visit: https://www.epic-assoc.com/epic-meeting-on-photonics-new-space-at-european-space-agency/

Scientists from PULSe will take part in the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) in San Diego from March 3 to March 7 2019, where they will present the latest results obtained with the innovative laser source developed for the PULSe project, showcasing its potential not only for BOTDA sensing but for a wide array of different employments.

OFC is one of the largest conferences in North America, featuring the research and the market’s preveiling problems in presentations of scientific advancements, standing-room only business and technical sessions, technology demonstrations and announcements from the world’s leading companies and plenary talks.

Additional information can be found here.

PULSe researchers will present the project at the EPIC meeting on specialty optical fibers, that will be hosted by GLOphotonics and will take place at the ESTER technopole in Limoges, France, on 21-22 February 2019.

EPIC is the industry association that promotes the sustainable development of organisations working in the field of photonics in Europe, with members encompassing the entire value chain from LED lighting, Photovoltaic solar energy, Photonics Integrated Circuits, Optical components, Lasers, Sensors, Imaging, Displays, Projectors, Optic fiber, and other photonic related technologies.

In this meeting advancements and new developments in specialty fibers will be discussed, including topics such as multi-core fibers, photonic crystal fibers, fiber lasers, nonlinear optics and fiber sensors.

Additional information about the meeting can be found here.

Additional information about EPIC can be found here.

Reseachers from PULSe team will present the outcomes of the PULSe project at SPIE Photonics West 2019 conference and exhibition which will take place from February 2 to February 7 2019 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.

SPIE Photonics West is the world’s largest photonics technologies event, covering a range of topics including biomedical optics, biophotonics, industrial lasers, optoelectronics, microfabrication, MOEMS-MEMS and displays, and it was attended by more than 23,000 people

In particular, CNR researchers will present the innovative laser source developed in PULSe and its enhanced performance, showcasing its use in Brillouin distributed fiber sensing measurements using the BOTDA distributed sensor, also developed in PULSe, as an example of its potential uses.

Additional information can be found here.

PULSe partner Sestosensor will present the project technology at the European Innovation Council (EIC) Innovators’ Summit, which will take place in Berlin, from the 10^th to the 12^th of October 2018.

Researchers of PULSe project will present the latest results on development of their innovative optical fiber sensor at the most famouse optical fiber sensing international conference, the 26th Optical Fiber Sensors Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, September 24-28, 2018.

For more information on the OFS-25 conference go to:

www.ofs-26.org/