Long-term irradiation of fibre Bragg gratings in a low dose rate gamma-neutron radiation field

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4823, Issue , 2002, Pages 205-212

  Fernandez, A Fernandez ^a,b   Gusarov, A ^c   Berghmans, F ^a,d   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

Fibre Bragg grating; Gamma radiation; Neutron radiation; Radiation effects; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RAYS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL LINKS; RADIATION EFFECTS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FIBER BRAGG GRATING FILTER; FIBER OPTIC DATA-COMMUNICATION LINKS; GAMMA-NEUTRON RADIATION FIELD; MULTIPLEXER; NEUTRON RADIATION;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0036989854     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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