Implementation of Optical Fiber Post-Mortem Dose Measurements: a Proof of Concept

摘要： We describe the implementation of a versatile system and corresponding method to perform fast post-mortem optical attenuation measurements on irradiated Optical Fibers (OFs) for dosimetry purposes. The measurement is based on the Radiation Induced Attenuation (RIA) phenomenon. We employ a dual wavelength Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) coupled with a suitable radiation sensitive OF. We demonstrate that radiation dose levels higher than 100 Gy(SiO2) can be measured efficiently with 1 m long samples. The accuracy of the measurement increases with the increasing radiation dose if the length of the sample is kept fix. We also highlight possible limitations of our approach and, more generally, limitations related to perform accurate RIA measurement (online or post-mortem) on short single mode OF samples. The technological solution we propose can be tailored to address different radiation environment.