Radiation damage of quartz fibers

✍ Scribed by Vasken Hagopian

• Book ID: 104355988
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 216 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(99)00616-7

✦ Synopsis

Quartz fibers are used in high energy physics experiments as the active medium in high radiation area calorimetry. Quartz fibers are also used in the transmission of optical signals. Even though quartz does not damage by mederate amounts of irradiation, the clad of the fibers and the protective coating (buffer) do damage reducing light transmission. Various types of quartz fibers have been irradiated and measured for light transmission. The most radiation hard quartz fibers are those with quartz clad and aluminum buffer.