Evaluation of three different optical fibre temperature sensor types for application in gamma radiation environments

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 3, 1998, Pages 1531-1536

  Berghmans, Francis ^a   Vos, Frans ^a   Decréton, Marc ^a  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

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