Feasibility study for distributed dose monitoring in ionizing radiation environments with standard and custom-made optical fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4823, Issue , 2002, Pages 213-221

  Van Uffelen, Marco ^a   Berghmans, Francis ^a   Brichard, Benoît ^a   Borgermans, Paul ^a   Decréton, Marc ^a  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Optical fibers; Optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR); Radiation effects

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GAMMA RAYS; IONIZING RADIATION; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; RADIATION EFFECTS; REFLECTOMETERS; SILICA; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DOSE ESTIMATION; OPTICAL FIBER DOSIMETRY; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0036993202     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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