Abstract
Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) based sensors are nowadays used for several applications, but, even if they present advantages for their incorporation into radiation environments, commercial-off-the-shelf devices cannot still be used in harsh conditions. We recently reported a procedure for fabricating FBGs resistant to severe constraints combining both high radiation doses up to MGy levels and operation temperatures exceeding 200°C (RadHard FBGs). Following these results, the European project HOBAN was granted by Kic InnoEnergy with the aim of developing and marketing FBG-based temperature and strain monitoring systems suitable for harsh nuclear environments (350°C temperature and MGy dose levels), with their associated instrumentation devices. In this framework, we present an accurate study about the robustness of the radiation-response of these RadHard FBGs against the main grating inscription parameters. Up to the accumulated X-ray dose of 1 MGy(SiO2), no significant radiation induced Bragg wavelength shift is observed meaning that radiations induce errors below ± 0.4°C in the temperature estimation. Moreover, a study about the dose-rate dependence (1 to 50 Gy/s) of the gratings response is also reported and confirms the high radiation hardness of our RadHard FBGs at all dose rates.
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