In situ measurement of refractive index changes induced by gamma radiation in germanosilicate fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1428-1430

  Fernandez, A Fernandez ^a,b   Brichard, B ^b   Berghmans, F ^a,c  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ionizing radiation; Optical fiber couplers; Refractive index

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RAYS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

GERMANOSILICATE FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLER;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 0141952946     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818247     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. E. Friebele, M. E. Gingerich, and D. Griscom, "Survivability of optical fibers in space," Proc. SPIE, vol. 1791, pp. 177-188, 1992.
2. A. F. Fernandez, F. Berghmans, B. Brichard, and M. Décreton, "Toward the development of radiation-tolerant instrumentation data links for thermonuclear fusion experiments," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 49, pp. 2879-2887, Dec. 2002.
3. K. Gill, R. Grabit, J. Troska, and F. Vasey, "Radiation hardness qualification of InGaAsP/InP 1310-nm lasers for the CMS tracker optical links," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 49, pp. 2923-2929, Dec. 2002.
4. D. Griscom, "Optical properties and structure of defects in silica glass," J. Ceramic Soc. Jpn., vol. 99, pp. 899-916, 1991.
5. L. Skuja, "Optically active oxygen-deficiency-related centers in amorphous silicon dioxide," J. Non-Cryst. Solids, vol. 239, pp. 16-48, 1998.
6. W. Primak, "The compacted states of vitreous silica," in Studies of Radiation Effects in Solids, G. Dienes and L. Chadderton, Eds. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1975, vol. 4.
7. E. Taylor, K. Hulick, J. Battiato, A. Sanchez, J. Winter, and A. Pirich, "Response of germania doped fiber Bragg gratings in radiation environments," Proc. SPIE, vol. 3714, pp. 106-113, 1999.
8. A. Fernandez Fernandez, B. Brichard, F. Berghmans, and M. Décreton, "Dose-rate dependencies in gamma-irradiated in-fiber Bragg gratings," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 49, pp. 2874-2878, Dec. 2002.
9. D. Griscom, M. Gingerich, and E. Frieble, "Model for the dose, dose rate, and temperature dependence of radiation-induced loss in optical fibers," Opt. Lett., vol. 19, pp. 548-550, 1994.
10. V. Neustruev, "Color centres un germanosilicate glass an optical fibers," J. Phys. Condens. Matter, vol. 6, pp. 6901-6936, 1994.
11. E. Friebele, K. Long, C. Askins, and M. Gingerich, "Overview of radiation effects in fiber optics," in Radiation Effects in Optical Materials. Bellingham, WA: SPIE, 1985, vol. 541, pp. 70-88.
12. T. Gaiffe, "From R&D brassboards to navigation grade fog-based ins: The experience of Photonetics/Ixsea," in Proc. 15th Optical Fiber Sensors Conf., vol. 1, 2002, Paper 02EX533.
13. M. C. Flanegan, "Fiber optic system on NASA glass spaceflight instrument," Proc. SPIE, vol. 4547, pp. 66-93, 2001.
14. I. Zayer, "Optro-electronic technologies at the european space agency," in Proc. Int. Symp. OPTRO, Paris, France, 2002.
15. M. Bertolotti, A. Ferrari, and F. Scudieri, "Radii and refractive index changes in γ-irradiated optical fibers," Radiat. Effects Lett., vol. 1, pp. 177-180, 1979.
16. S. Vasiliev, E. Dianov, K. Golant, O. Medvedkov, A. Tomashuk, V. Karpov, M. Grekov, A. Kurkov, B. Leconte, and P. Niay, "Performance of Bragg and long-period gratings written in N-doped and Ge-doped silica fibers under γ-radiation," in Proc. IEEE RADECS'97 Conf., Cannes, France, 1997.
17. R. Gutierez, G. Swift, S. Dubovitsky, R. Bartman, C. Carnes, and L. Dorsky, "Radiation effects on fused biconical taper wavelength division multiplexer," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 41, pp. 1950-1957, Dec. 1994.
18. A. Volcheck, A. Gusarov, A. Diikov, and F. Iignat'ev, "Change in refractive index of silicate glasses under ionizing radiation," Glass Phys. Chem., vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 107-110, 1995.
19. A. Gusarov and D. Doyle, "Modeling of gamma-radiation impact on transmission characteristics of optical glasses," Proc. SPIE, Vol. 4547, pp. 78-85, 2001.
20. E. Dianov, A. Kurkov, O. Medvedkov, and S. Vasiliev, "A new sensitive method for measuring induced refractive index change in optical fiber core," in Proc. Int. Conf. Photosensitivity and Quadratic Non-Linearity in Glass Waveguides: Fundamentals and Applications, OSA Tech. Dig., vol. 22, Portland, OR, 1995.
21. D. Hand and P. Russel, "Photoinduced refractive index changes in germanosilicate optical fibers," Opt. Lett., vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 102-104, 1990.
22. R. Orazi, S. Russel, T. Vu, and P. Yu, "UV fine tuning of narrow channel fused fiber wavelength division multiplexing couplers," Elect. Lett., vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 154-155, 1997.
23. M. McLandrich, R. Orazi, and H. Marlin, "Polarization independent narrow channel wavelength division multiplexing fiber couplers for 1.55 μm," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 9, pp. 442-447, Apr. 1991.
24. A. F. Fernandez, H. Ooms, B. Brichard, M. Coeck, S. Coenen, F. Berghmans, and M. Decréton, "SCK·CEN irradiation facilities for radiation tolerance assessment," in Proc. IEEE NSREC Data Workshop, July 2002, pp. 171-176.