A new radiation hard optical fiber for high-dose values

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 III, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1432-1438

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

^a FRAUNHOFER INT   (Germany)

Author keywords

High dose values; High radiation dose; Optical fibers; Radiation; Radiation hard fiber

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); DOPING (ADDITIVES); DOSIMETRY; FLUORINE; GAMMA RAYS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; SILICA;

HIGH DOSE VALUE; HIGH RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HARD OPTICAL FIBER;

RADIATION HARDENING;

EID: 0036624614     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.1039679     Document Type: Article

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