Radiation effects on fiber Bragg gratings: vulnerability and hardening studies

A Morana, E Marin, L Lablonde, T Blanchet, T Robin… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are point optical fiber sensors that allow the monitoring of a
diversity of environmental parameters, eg, temperature or strain. Several research groups …

Optical fiber sensors in extreme temperature and radiation environments: A review

Y Deng, J Jiang - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a comprehensive review of optical fiber sensors (OFSs), including FBG,
distributed optical fiber sensor and Fabry-Perot interferometer, and their applications within …

Radiation effects on fiber gratings

A Gusarov, SK Hoeffgen - IEEE Transactions on nuclear …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fiber Bragg and long period gratings are photonic components that find numerous
applications in telecommunication and sensing. In some cases, such as space, high-energy …

Development and studies on FBG temperature sensor for applications in nuclear fuel cycle facilities

J Kumar, G Singh, MK Saxena, O Prakash… - IEEE Sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the novel results on fiber Bragg grating temperature sensor deployment
in high radiation and hazardous chemical environment of nuclear fuel recycle facility. The …

Radiation tolerant fiber Bragg gratings for high temperature monitoring at MGy dose levels

A Morana, S Girard, E Marin, C Marcandella, P Paillet… - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We report a method for fabricating fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) resistant to very severe
environments mixing high radiation doses (up to 3 MGy) and high temperatures (up to 230° …

[PDF][PDF] Chapter Optical fibers and optical fiber sensors used in radiation monitoring

D McCarthy, D Sporea, S O'Keeffe, A Sporea, E Lewis - 2012 - library.oapen.org
By their very nature, optical fibers and, by extension, intrinsic and extrinsic optical fiberbased
sensors are promising devices to be used in very different and complex environments …

Development of highly radiation resistant fiber Bragg gratings

H Henschel, D Grobnic, SK Hoeffgen… - … on Nuclear Science, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fiber Bragg gratings with a radiation-induced wavelength shift of<; 5 pm up to gamma doses
of 1 MGy were written with a femtosecond IR laser into Ge-free radiation hard optical fibers …

Effects of neutron-gamma radiation on fiber Bragg grating sensors: a review

M Perry, P Niewczas, M Johnston - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing is currently one of the leading measurement
technologies, but has made only minor inroads into nuclear diagnostics due, for the most …

Introducing photonics in spacecraft engineering: ESA's strategic approach

N Karafolas, JMP Armengol… - 2009 IEEE Aerospace …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic technologies in the form of fiber optics, integrated optics and micro-photonics offer
some compelling advantages when considered for use in spacecraft. Since 2002 the …

Influence of manufacturing parameters and temperature on the radiation sensitivity of fiber Bragg gratings

H Henschel, SK Hoeffgen, J Kuhnhenn… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the first time the radiation sensitivity of Bragg gratings was investigated as a function of
hydrogen loading pressure before and fiber tension during grating inscription, of the …