Radiation hardness of passive fibre optic components for the future thermonuclear fusion reactor instrumentation links

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4547, Issue , 2002, Pages 40-52

  Fernandez, A Fernandez ^a,b   Berghmans, F ^a,d   Brichard, B ^a   Van Uffelen, M ^a   Decreton M ^a   Megret P ^c   Blondel, M ^c   Delchambre, A ^b  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Analog transmission; Digital transmission; Fibre Bragg grating; Gamma radiation; Multiplexing; Neutron radiation; Nuclear environment; Optical fibre

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BANDWIDTH; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FUSION REACTORS; GAMMA RAYS; IONIZING RADIATION; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL LINKS; RADIATION HARDENING; RADIATION HAZARDS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ANALOG TRANSMISSION;

FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS;

EID: 0036398384     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454392     Document Type: Article

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