{"title":"Length-Resolved Measurement of Radiation Induced Attenuation in Quench Detection Optical Fibers With Photobleaching","authors":"Owen Duke;Joseph Desroches;Erica Salazar","doi":"10.1109/TASC.2025.3543808","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Fiber-optic temperature and strain measurement systems are a promising technology for quench detection in insulated HTS magnets because of their compact form factor, immunity to electromagnetic noise, and fully dielectric construction. (Salazar et al. 2021) One of the key challenges to implementing these technologies in magnets for fusion devices is that ionizing radiation causes severe attenuation in the quench detection fibers. This attenuation is exacerbated by the low operating temperatures of HTS magnets (<inline-formula><tex-math>$\\sim$</tex-math></inline-formula> 20 K) and the long fiber lengths required for quench detection in power-plant scale magnetic confinement fusion systems (<inline-formula><tex-math>$\\sim$</tex-math></inline-formula> 200 m). (Blanc et al. 2017) In a previous paper we demonstrated that the survivable dose of a quench detection system operating at 1550 nm can be extended by more than 2,000x through continuous photobleaching at 970 nm. (Duke et al. 2024) Here we present an experiment investigating the effect of 970 nm photobleaching on fibers of significant length (up to 250 m) irradiated at 77 K with RIA near 1550 nm monitored using a novel length-resolved measurement technique.","PeriodicalId":13104,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity","volume":"35 5","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10907772/","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Fiber-optic temperature and strain measurement systems are a promising technology for quench detection in insulated HTS magnets because of their compact form factor, immunity to electromagnetic noise, and fully dielectric construction. (Salazar et al. 2021) One of the key challenges to implementing these technologies in magnets for fusion devices is that ionizing radiation causes severe attenuation in the quench detection fibers. This attenuation is exacerbated by the low operating temperatures of HTS magnets ($\sim$ 20 K) and the long fiber lengths required for quench detection in power-plant scale magnetic confinement fusion systems ($\sim$ 200 m). (Blanc et al. 2017) In a previous paper we demonstrated that the survivable dose of a quench detection system operating at 1550 nm can be extended by more than 2,000x through continuous photobleaching at 970 nm. (Duke et al. 2024) Here we present an experiment investigating the effect of 970 nm photobleaching on fibers of significant length (up to 250 m) irradiated at 77 K with RIA near 1550 nm monitored using a novel length-resolved measurement technique.
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IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity (TAS) contains articles on the applications of superconductivity and other relevant technology. Electronic applications include analog and digital circuits employing thin films and active devices such as Josephson junctions. Large scale applications include magnets for power applications such as motors and generators, for magnetic resonance, for accelerators, and cable applications such as power transmission.