Temperature monitoring of nuclear reactor cores with multiplexed fiber Bragg grating sensors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1246-1254

  Fernandez, Alberto Fernandez ^a,b   Gusarov, Andrei I ^a,c   Brichard, Benoît ^a   Bodart, Serge ^a   Lammens, Koen ^a   Berghmans, Francis ^d   Decréton, Marc ^a   Mégret, Patrice ^c   Blondel, Michel ^c   Delchambre, Alain ^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

Fiber Bragg grating sensors; Gamma radiation; Multiplexing; Neutron radiation; Nuclear environment; Optical fiber sensors; Temperature

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; GAMMA RAYS; MULTIPLEXING; NEUTRONS; REACTOR CORES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOCOUPLES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATING SENSORS; NEUTRON RADIATION; NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENT;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0036611956     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1475739     Document Type: Article

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