READ ME File For 'Dataset for Towar gamma ray immune fibre-optic phosphor thermometry for nuclear decommissioning" Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D2029 Date that the file was created: November 2021 ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- ReadMe Author: NICOLO PISANI, University of Southampton [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3210-8572] Date of data collection: Apr 2021 - Oct 2021 Information about geographic location of data collection: Southampton UK Related projects: Empress 2 -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: Recommended citation for the data: none This dataset supports the AUTHORS: Nicolò Pisani, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Ian A. K. Davidson, Francesco Poletti, Radan Slavík, Dave Lowe, Graham Machin & Gavin Sutton TITLE: publication: Toward gamma ray immune fibre-optic phosphor thermometry for nuclear decommissioning JOURNAL: International Journal of Thermophysics volume 43, Article number: 47 (2022) PAPER DOI IF KNOWN: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-021-02964-0 Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: none Links/relationships to ancillary or related data sets: none -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- This dataset contains for the figures as follows Fig3 (bottom) Simulated radiation-induced loss penalty (blue curve) compared to the radiation-induced loss in pure silica core single mode fibre Fig3 (top) Transmission losses of the manufactured hollow-core anti-resonant fibre, (a) comparison between confinement loss measured via cutback to finite element simulations Fig 5 Normalized transmitted optical power for MFG phosphors excitation/emission wavelengths through the radiation hard fibre (RHF) as a function of time (left) and received dose (right) Fig 6 Normalized transmitted optical power for MFG phosphors excitation/emission wavelengths through the Single mode fibre (SMF) as a function of time (left) and received dose (right) Fig 7 Normalized transmitted optical power for MFG phosphors excitation/emission wavelengths through the hollow-core anti-resonant fibre (HCF) as a function of time (left) and received dose (right) Fig. 9 MFG emission spectra at various temperatures with excitation at 450 nm Fig. 10 Band A/Band B intensity ratios characterising three heating cycles plotted against temperatures measured with thermocouple Fig. 11 Change in phosphor calibration characterising heating cycles 2 and 3 in comparison to cycle 1 Relationship between files, if important for context: none Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: pure silica glass RIA If data was derived from another source, list source: Reduction of the radiation-induced absorption in hydrogenated pure silica core fibres irradiated in situ with γ-rays (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2006.10.039) License : CC-BY -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Photodetecting circuit described in the paper Methods for processing the data: LABVIEW code acquired raw data from samples' outputs in a matrix. Each column of data was grabbed and plotted using matlab per each wavelength and fibre sample Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers:none Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: none Environmental/experimental conditions: Theratron irradiation facility NPL Teddington UK Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: none People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Eric Numkam Foukua, Francesco Poletti, Ian K Davidson, Gavin Sutton