Coating impact and radiation effects on optical frequency domain reflectometry fiber-based temperature sensors

Serena Rizzolo (1) , Emmanuel Marin (1) , Adriana Morana (1) , Aziz Boukenter (1) , Youcef Ouerdane (1) , Marco Cannas (2) , Jocelyn Perisse (3) , Sophie Bauer , Jean-Reynald Macé (3) , Sylvain Girard (1)

1 LHC - Laboratoire Hubert Curien
2 Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo
3 AREVA NP

Temperature response of radiation-tolerant OFDR-based sensors is here investigated, with particular attention on the impact of coating on OFS. By performing consecutive thermal treatments we developed a controlled system to evaluate the performances of our distributed temperature sensor and to estimate the radiation impact. We show an important evolution of the temperature coefficient measurements with thermal treatments for non-irradiated fiber and that the amplitude of this change decreases increasing radiation dose. As final results, we demonstrate that sensor performances are improved if we performed a pre-thermal treatment on the fiber-based system permitting to monitor temperature with an error of 0.05°C.

Mots clés: Radiation; Optical fibers; High temperature; OFDR; DTS

Domaines: Optique / photonique; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Serena Rizzolo, Emmanuel Marin, Adriana Morana, Aziz Boukenter, Youcef Ouerdane, et al.. Coating impact and radiation effects on optical frequency domain reflectometry fiber-based temperature sensors. 24th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, Sep 2015, Curitiba, Brazil. pp.1-4, ⟨10.1117/12.2194989⟩. ⟨hal-01211163⟩