Multi-purpose optical fiber sensors for superconducting magnets

by Melanie Turenne

Wednesday 28 Sept 2011, 13:30 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

30/7-010 (CERN)

There will be a brief overview on optical fibers sensors using the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and Rayleigh backscattering technologies. I'll discuss the driving reasons for exploring these sensors as well as the challenges associated with implementing fibers into a superconducting magnet. Then I will move into the work that we have done, looking first at the high temperature work for Bi2212 monitoring and following with the work we showed at PAC09 on quench detection on YBCO with FBGs and the recent work with Rayleigh backscattering. I'll finish with future work we plan to do and additional areas which I think need to be explored before these fibers are ready for use in magnets.

Slides Turenne_CERNseminar_Sep2011_v2.pdf Turenne_CERNseminar_Sep2011_v2.pptx