Radiation hardening of optical fibre links by photobleaching with light of shorter wavelength

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3 PART 1, 1996, Pages 1050-1056

  Henschel, H ^a   Kohn O ^a   Schmidt, H U ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; LIGHT; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION HARDENING;

PHOTOBLEACHING; RADIATION INDUCED LOSS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 0030169879     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.510754     Document Type: Article

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