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Customer-specific fiber optic cabling solutions for underwater and subsea applications

Customers around the world benefit from using AFL fiber optic cable and components in subsea umbilicals and towed arrays. With its patented stainless steel tube technology, AFL delivers robust and flexible designs to withstand the most extreme subsea pressures and temperatures.

• Fiber optic cable in umbilicals and stand-alone fiber optic links
• Stainless steel tubes in towed arrays
• Specialty fiber optic plastic buffer tubes
• Tactical tight buffered cable for topside use

• Traditional design for <150°C
• High temperature design for 300°C and above
• Low profile designs where space is a premium such as coiled tubing
• MiniBend™ component for downhole double-ended systems for improved sensing performance

Case Study

AFL’s Optical Sensing Cables Measure Effects of Climate Change in the Antarctic

AFL’s optical sensing cables were recently deployed through the McMurdo Ice Shelf and into the Ross Sea in Antarctica as part of a study to measure the effects of warming ocean water on glacial ice. The study by Dr. Scott Tyler at the University of Nevada, Reno, uses the latest in fiber optic sensing technology to acquire temperature profiles with 0.033°C accuracy through the ice shelf all the way to the bottom of the sea...

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