scholarly journals Evaluation of the Detection Efficiency of LYSO Scintillator in the Fiber-Optic Radiation Sensor

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chan Hee Park ◽  
Arim Lee ◽  
Rinah Kim ◽  
Joo Hyun Moon
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Detection Efficiency ◽  
Radiation Detection ◽  
Refraction Index ◽  
Fiber Optic Sensor ◽  
Optic Radiation ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Radiation Sensor

The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate fiber-optic sensors for the remote detection of gamma rays in areas that are difficult to access, such as a spent fuel pool. The fiber-optic sensor consists of a light-generating probe, such as scintillators for radiation detection, plastic optical fibers, and light-measuring devices, such as PMT. The (Lu,Y)2SiO5:Ce(LYSO:Ce) scintillator was chosen as the light-generating probe. The (Lu,Y)2SiO5:Ce(LYSO:Ce) scintillator has higher scintillation efficiency than the others and transmits light well through an optical fiber because its refraction index is similar to the refractive index of the optical fiber. The fiber-optic radiation sensor using the (Lu,Y)2SiO5:Ce(LYSO:Ce) scintillator was evaluated in terms of the detection efficiency and reproducibility for examining its applicability as a radiation sensor.

Automated Fiber-Optic System for Monitoring the Stability of the Pit Quarry Mass and Dumps

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
А.D. Меkhtiyev ◽  
◽  
E.G. Neshina ◽  
P.Sh. Madi ◽  
D.A. Gorokhov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Light Wave ◽  
Single Mode ◽  
Fiber Optic Sensors ◽  
Fiber Optic Sensor ◽  
Laboratory Sample ◽  
Single Mode Optical Fiber

This article ls with the issues related to the development of a system for monitoring the deformation and displacement of the rock mass leading to the collapse of the quarry sides. Monitoring system uses point-to-point fiber-optic sensors. Fiber-optic sensors and control cables of the communication line are made based on the single mode optical fibers, which allows to measure with high accuracy the deformations and displacements of the rock mass at a distance of 30-50 km. To create fiber-optic pressure sensors, an optical fiber of the ITU-T G. 652.D standard is used. Laboratory sample is developed concerning the point fiber-optic sensor made based on the two-arm Mach-Zender interferometer using a single mode optical fiber for monitoring strain (displacements) with a change in the sensitivity and a reduced influence of temperature interference leading to zero drift. The article presents a mathematical apparatus for calculating the intensity of radiation of a light wave passing through an optical fiber with and without mechanical stress. A laboratory sample of single mode optical fibers based on the Mach-Zender interferometer showed a fairly high linearity and accuracy in the measurement and can be used to control the strain of the mass after appropriate refinement of its design. Mathematical expressions are also given for determining the intensity of the light wave when the distance between the fixing points of a single mode optical fiber changes depending on the change in the external temperature. A diagram for measuring strain using a point fiber-optic strain sensor is developed. Hardware and software package is developed, which can be used to perform a number of settings of measuring channels. The work is aimed at solving the production problems of the Kenzhem quarry of AK Altynalmas JSC.

Sol-gel derived porous silica as a constituent material for designing optical fiber chemical sensors

2004 ◽  
Vol 828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiquan Tao ◽  
Joseph C. Fanguy ◽  
Lina Xu
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Chemical Sensors ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Porous Silica ◽  
Fiber Optic Sensor ◽  
Spectrometric Method ◽  
Constituent Material

AbstractSol-gel processes were developed to prepare nano porous silica materials. The obtained porous sol-gel silica (PSGS) materials have been used as constituent materials in designing optical fiber chemical sensors. A PSGS membrane coated on the surface of an optical fiber was used as a transducer for sensing humidity level in air. A PSGS membrane doped with an ammonia indicator dye has been coated on an optical fiber to sense ammonia in air. Both of the coating based sensors are reversible and fast response. In the tested range, relative humidity (RH) in air down to 3% can be detected with the PSGS coated fiber optic sensor. The fiber optic ammonia sensor with ammonia indicator doped PSGS coating can be used to sense ammonia in air down to sub-ppm level. PSGS has also been used as a constituent material in preparing porous silica optical fibers. The obtained porous optical fibers have been used to design optical fiber chemical sensors for sensing humidity, ammonia and volatile organic compounds. A CuCl2 doped PSGS fiber has been tested for sensing ammonia in a high temperature gas sample. Ammonia in the high temperature air gas diffuses into the PSGS fiber, reversibly reacts with CuCl2 doped in the PSGS fiber to form a complex. The formed complex was detected with fiber optic spectrometric method. This sensor can detect ammonia in a high temperature (450 °C) air gas stream down 0.3 ppm. Techniques of preparing PSGS, coating PSGS on an optical fiber, making a porous optical fiber with PSGS as a constituent material will be presented. Examples of optical fiber sensors using PSGS coatings and a PSGS fiber as transducers for gas sensing are presented.

Development of a fiber-optic Cerenkov radiation sensor to verify spent fuel: Characterization of the Cerenkov radiation generated from an optical fiber

2012 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 1704-1708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoung Won Jang ◽  
Wook Jae Yoo ◽  
Sang Hun Shin ◽  
Ki-Tek Han ◽  
Bongsoo Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Cerenkov Radiation ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Radiation Sensor ◽  
Fuel Characterization

scholarly journals Optical Filter-Embedded Fiber-Optic Radiation Sensor for Ultra-High Dose Rate Electron Beam Dosimetry

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 5840
Author(s):  
Dong-Hyeok Jeong ◽  
Manwoo Lee ◽  
Heuijin Lim ◽  
Sang-Koo Kang ◽  
Kyohyun Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Dose Rate ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Electron Beams ◽  
Optical Filter ◽  
High Dose Rate ◽  
High Dose ◽  
Optic Radiation ◽  
Normal Tissues ◽  
Radiation Sensor

FLASH radiotherapy is an emerging radiotherapy technique used to spare normal tissues. It employs ultra-high dose rate radiation beams over 40 Gy/s, which is significantly higher than those of conventional radiotherapy. In this study, a fiber-optic radiation sensor (FORS) was fabricated using a plastic scintillator, an optical filter, and a plastic optical fiber to measure the ultra-high dose rate electron beams over 40 Gy/s used in FLASH radiotherapy. The radiation-induced emissions, such as Cherenkov radiation and fluorescence generated in a transmitting optical fiber, were spectrally discriminated from the light outputs of the FORS. To evaluate the linearity and dose rate dependence of the FORS, the outputs of the fiber-optic radiation sensor were measured according to distances from an electron scattering device, and the results were compared with those of an ionization chamber and radiochromic films. Finally, the percentage depth doses were obtained using the FORS as a function of depth in a water phantom. This study found that ultra-high dose rate electron beams over 40 Gy/s could be measured in real time using a FORS.

High Resolution One-Dimensional Dose Measurement Using a Movable Miniature Fiber-Optic Radiation Sensor

2006 ◽  
Vol 321-323 ◽  
pp. 992-995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bong Soo Lee ◽  
Dong Hyun Cho ◽  
Soon Cheol Chung ◽  
Jeong Han Yi ◽  
Kyung Won Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Dose Distribution ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Light Output ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Optic Radiation ◽  
Plastic Optical Fiber ◽  
Silicon Photodiode ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Radiation Sensor

The aim of this study is to develop a new method to measure one-dimensional dose distribution of high-energy electron using a miniature fiber-optic radiation sensor. The measurements are made by a thin plastic optical fiber with an organic scintillating sensor tip. The scintillating light in the visible wavelength range is guided to a silicon photodiode by plastic optical fiber in order to convert light output to electrical signal. The one-dimensional spatial dependence of elctron beam is measured by moving the sensor tip with uniform speed. It is shown that this fiber-optic radiation sensor has better spatial resolution than conventional ion chamber and it needs much less time to measure one-dimensional dose distribution in the high radiation fields.

Fiber-Optic Sensor Technology and Combinatorial Chemistry

2003 ◽  
Vol 804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Geissinger ◽  
Barry J. Prince ◽  
Nadejda T. Kaltcheva ◽  
Maureen J. Prince ◽  
Alan W. Schwabacher
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Combinatorial Chemistry ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Optical Fiber Sensor ◽  
Combinatorial Libraries ◽  
Fiber Optic Sensor ◽  
Fiber Sensor ◽  
Sensor Technology ◽  
Compound Libraries

ABSTRACTOur recently introduced “Fiber-Optic Combinatorial Chemistry” technique combines combinatorial synthetic methods and optical fiber sensor technologies. Our one-dimensional combinatorial chemistry method allows for synthesis of large compound libraries in a linear format, for example in the cladding of optical fibers. Subjecting these libraries to assays that indicate positive identification of a library member by the binding of a fluorescent group, produces, in effect, an optical fiber sensor array. The location of a particular fluorescent region along the optical fiber can be determined through the optical time-of-flight technique, in which laser pulses propagating through the fiber core probe through their evanescent fields the fluorescent properties of the compounds located in the fiber cladding. It is a virtue of our combinatorial synthetic procedure that with the location of a compound on the fiber, its synthetic history is immediately known. We demonstrated that limitations on the spatial resolution of compounds along the fiber due to the excited state lifetimes of the fluorescent marker molecules can be overcome by the use of a second fiber - evanescently coupled to the first one - as an optical delay.The existing claddings of optical fibers severely restrict the range of chemistries for the synthesis of combinatorial libraries. Therefore, in order to make our method more generally applicable, the existing fiber cladding has to be replaced by a porous material that can act as solid support for reactions and at the same time preserve the optical guiding conditions of the fiber. In this contribution we discuss the requirements for such a replacement cladding and evaluate the general suitability of a functionalized candidate material.

scholarly journals Sensing, Actuation, and Control of the SmartX Prototype Morphing Wing in the Wind Tunnel

Actuators ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Nakash Nazeer ◽  
Xuerui Wang ◽  
Roger M. Groves
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Experimental Testing ◽  
Single Mode ◽  
Fiber Optic Sensor ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Random Errors ◽  
Morphing Wing ◽  
Actuator Dynamics

This paper presents a study on trailing edge deflection estimation for the SmartX camber morphing wing demonstrator. This demonstrator integrates the technologies of smart sensing, smart actuation and smart controls using a six module distributed morphing concept. The morphing sequence is brought about by two actuators present at both ends of each of the morphing modules. The deflection estimation is carried out by interrogating optical fibers that are bonded on to the wing’s inner surface. A novel application is demonstrated using this method that utilizes the least amount of sensors for load monitoring purposes. The fiber optic sensor data is used to measure the deflections of the modules in the wind tunnel using a multi-modal fiber optic sensing approach and is compared to the deflections estimated by the actuators. Each module is probed by single-mode optical fibers that contain just four grating sensors and consider both bending and torsional deformations. The fiber optic method in this work combines the principles of hybrid interferometry and FBG spectral sensing. The analysis involves an initial calibration procedure outside the wind tunnel followed by experimental testing in the wind tunnel. This method is shown to experimentally achieve an accuracy of 2.8 mm deflection with an error of 9%. The error sources, including actuator dynamics, random errors, and nonlinear mechanical backlash, are identified and discussed.

scholarly journals Measurement of Gamma-Rays Induced Luminescence Generated in a Sapphire Based Fiber-Optic Radiation Sensor

2016 ◽  
Vol 04 (08) ◽  
pp. 1503-1506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Beom Song ◽  
Kyoung Won Jang ◽  
Hye Jin Kim ◽  
Dong Eun Lee ◽  
Mingeon Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gamma Rays ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Optic Radiation ◽  
Radiation Sensor

scholarly journals Gamma-ray Spectroscopy Using Inorganic Scintillator Coated with Reduced Graphene Oxide in Fiber-Optic Radiation Sensor

Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 543
Author(s):  
Jin Ho Kim ◽  
Seunghyeon Kim ◽  
Siwon Song ◽  
Taeseob Lim ◽  
Jae Hyung Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Reduced Graphene Oxide ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Energy Spectra ◽  
Optic Radiation ◽  
Radiation Sensor ◽  
Reduced Graphene ◽  
Gamma Ray Spectroscopy ◽  
Inorganic Scintillators

In this study, we developed a remote gamma-ray spectroscopy system based on a fiber-optic radiation sensor (FORS) that is composed of an inorganic scintillator coated with reduced graphene oxide (RGO) and a plastic optical fiber (POF). As a preliminary experiment, we measured the transmitted light intensities using RGO membranes of different thicknesses with different wavelengths of emitted light. To evaluate the FORS performance, we determined the optimal thickness of the RGO membrane and measured the amounts of scintillating light and gamma energy spectra using radioactive isotopes such as 60Co and 137Cs. The amounts of scintillating light from the RGO-coated inorganic scintillators increased, and the energy resolutions of the gamma-ray spectra were enhanced. In addition, the gamma-ray energy spectra were measured using different types of RGO-coated inorganic scintillators depending on the lengths of the POFs for remote gamma-ray spectroscopy. It was expected that inorganic scintillators coated with RGO in FORS can deliver improved performance, such as increments of scintillating light and energy resolution in gamma-ray spectroscopy, and they can be used to identify nuclides remotely in various nuclear facilities.

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