One centimeter spatial resolution temperature measurements in a nuclear reactor using Rayleigh scatter in optical fiber

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1375-1380

  Sang, Alex K ^a   Froggatt, Mark E ^a   Gifford, Dawn K ^a   Kreger, Stephen T ^a   Dickerson, Bryan D ^a  

^a LUNA INNOVATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed sensing; Nuclear; Nuclear reactor; Optical fiber; Optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR); Radiation; Rayleigh scatter; Temperature

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SENSORS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; CENTIMETER SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); RAYLEIGH; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBERS (SMOF); SPECTRAL SHIFTING; SWEPT WAVELENGTH;

FIBERS;

EID: 47849089150     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.927247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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