Arthur Hartog gained a B. Sc. In Electronics at the University of Southampton, followed a Ph.D. in the Optical Fibre Research Group in a team led by Prof. W.A. Gambling at the same university. He focussed on fibre metrology, including research in optical time-domain reflectometry, leading to the first demonstration of a distributed optical fibre sensor in 1982.

In 1984, Arthur moved to York Sensors Ltd, where he set up a team to design and commercialize the first Raman distributed temperature sensor and he dealt with most aspects of the product life.

In 2001, York Sensors became part of Schlumberger, a leading oilfield services company. As a Schlumberger Fellow, Arthur continued to research optical fibre including the development of distributed vibration and strain sensors and their application to the oilfield, notably in the area of borehole seismic acquisition.

Arthur is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of FOSINA a French pioneering company in the field of distributed optical fibre sensors. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Optica and a Member of the EAGE and SPIE.