The use of 1.5 μm infrared light from a cooled scintillator for optical fiber based system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1321-1323

  Takahashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Fukuda, Daiji ^a   Jensen, Fredrik ^a   Iguchi, Tetsuo ^a   Nakazawa, Masaharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FIBER LASERS; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOSPHORS; SCINTILLATION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

COOLED SCINTILLATORS; INFRARED LIGHT EMISSION; NUCLEAR FACILITY; OPTICAL FIBER RADIATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; SCINTILLATION MECHANISMS; SCINTILLATION PROPERTY; SILICA OPTICAL FIBERS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0030165204     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.507058     Document Type: Article

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