Radiation Effects in Doped-Silica Optical Waveguides

An Analysis of Photobleaching Techniques for the Radiation Hardening of Fiber Optic Data Links

“…The spectral nature and magnitude of these losses as a function of radiation environment have been characterized for most state-of-the-art optical fibers. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Diagram of experimental set-up for luminescent lifetime and photobleaching measurements using pulsed ruby laser.…”