Table 2 Summary of temperature sensitivity and thermo-optic coefficient changes on LPGs after irradiation.

From: Arc-induced Long Period Gratings in standard and speciality optical fibers under mixed neutron-gamma irradiation

Sensor id

Experimental data

From numerical-experimental comparison

ST [pm/°C] (before irr.)

ST [pm/°C] (after irr.)

\({\boldsymbol{\Delta }}{{\boldsymbol{\alpha }}}_{{\boldsymbol{c}}{\boldsymbol{o}}}^{{\boldsymbol{i}}{\boldsymbol{r}}{\boldsymbol{r}}}\)

\({\boldsymbol{\Delta }}{{\boldsymbol{\alpha }}}_{{\boldsymbol{c}}{\boldsymbol{l}}}^{{\boldsymbol{i}}{\boldsymbol{r}}{\boldsymbol{r}}}\)

OZ1-LPG

50.0

51.2

<10−8/°C

OZ2-LPG

49.9

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

Thorlabs-LPG

47.6

48.6

<10−8/°C

FiberA-LPG

50.8

51.6

<10−8/°C

Nufern-LPG

49.5

57.7

3∙10−8/°C

Draka-LPG

29.6

26.5

6∙10−8/°C