High radiation sensitivity of chiral long period gratings

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 5 PART 3, 2010, Pages 2915-2922

  Henschel, Henning ^a   Hoeffgen, Stefan K ^a   Kuhnhenn, Jochen ^a   Weinand, Udo ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annealing; chiral long period grating; cladding modes; fiber Bragg grating; gamma radiation; optical fiber sensors; radiation dosimetry; radiation effects; radiation sensors; transmission dip wavelength shift

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL LONG PERIOD GRATING; CLADDING MODES; GAMMA RADIATION; OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS; RADIATION DOSIMETRY; RADIATION SENSORS;

DOSIMETRY; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; GAMMA RAYS; OPTICAL FIBERS; RADIATION SHIELDING; SENSORS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 79953783184     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2059043     Document Type: Article

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