Gamma-radiation-induced attenuation of light in polarization-maintaining pure-silica-core PANDA fibers

Pavel F. Kashaykin; Alexander L. Tomashuk; Irina S. Azanova; Olga L. Vokhmyanina; Tatiana V. Dimakova; Igor A. Maltsev; Yulia O. Sharonova; Elena A. Pospelova; Evgeni M. Dianov

doi:10.1117/12.2520430

16 April 2019 Gamma-radiation-induced attenuation of light in polarization-maintaining pure-silica-core PANDA fibers

Pavel F. Kashaykin, Alexander L. Tomashuk, Irina S. Azanova, Olga L. Vokhmyanina, Tatiana V. Dimakova, Igor A. Maltsev, Yulia O. Sharonova, Elena A. Pospelova, Evgeni M. Dianov

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Proceedings Volume 11029, Micro-structured and Specialty Optical Fibres VI; 110290V (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2520430
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

Radiation-induced attenuation (RIA) of light is studied in a pure-silica-core Panda fiber under γ-irradiation in the dose range 1-10⁶ Gy at the dose rates in the range 0.015-5 Gy/s. A 5-mW erbium fiber superluminescent source or a white-light lamp (integral power of <0.5 μW) are used as the probe light source. Both RIA dose dependences at separate wavelengths in the near-IR range and RIA spectra in the near-IR and visible ranges at fixed doses are investigated. The spectra are Gaussian deconvolved and analyzed. 1.55-μm light (500 μW) is found to produce photobleaching not only of the 0.95- and 1.12-eV RIA bands, the effect observed previously, but also of the 2.6- and 1.63-eV RIA bands associated with inherent and strain-assisted self-trapped holes (STHs), respectively. RIA at λ=1.55 μm is found not to depend on dose rate at those below 0.15 Gy/s, which opens up the possibility to simply estimate the upper bound of RIA gained by the end of space mission. In particular, the RIA upper bound at λ=1.55 μm of ~1.5 dB/km is predicted for a 1-kGy space mission. RIA at λ=1.55 μm in pure-silica-core Pandas is also found to cease to depend on dose rate and probe light power at high doses (~10⁵ Gy). The reason is that all the short-lived RCCs sensitive to the former parameters completely disappear at high doses, whereas RIA at λ=1.55 μm becomes wholly determined by the long-wavelength RIA band peaking at λ<1.7 μm and known to be dose-rate-independent and photobleaching-insensitive.

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Pavel F. Kashaykin, Alexander L. Tomashuk, Irina S. Azanova, Olga L. Vokhmyanina, Tatiana V. Dimakova, Igor A. Maltsev, Yulia O. Sharonova, Elena A. Pospelova, and Evgeni M. Dianov "Gamma-radiation-induced attenuation of light in polarization-maintaining pure-silica-core PANDA fibers", Proc. SPIE 11029, Micro-structured and Specialty Optical Fibres VI, 110290V (16 April 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2520430

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