Radiation-Resistant WDM Optical Link for Thermonuclear Fusion Reactor Instrumentation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1708-

  Gusarov, A I ^d   Megret P ^d   Blondel, M ^d   Uffelen, M V ^b   Decreton M ^b  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor; gamma radiation International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER); nuclear robotics; optical fiber sensor; radiation effects; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008024882     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.960361     Document Type: Note

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