Effects of fabrication conditions on the double-peak structure observed in fiber Bragg gratings at harmonics of the Bragg wavelength were investigated, showing that slight variations in the alignment of the phase mask can affect the grating spectra significantly. A single peak occurs only when the incident beam direction is perfectly normal with respect to the fiber.

− This article deals with the technical properties of fiber Bragg gratings with regard to their use as the strain-sensitive element in force transducers. Electrical strain gages are widely used in modern, precise force transducers. The electrical strain gage provides both outstanding technical properties and cost-effectiveness. Besides the electrical strain gage, the measurement principle of fi...

Introduction: The proton beam produced in particle accelerators has an appropriate therapeutic potential. In this research, proton therapy of breast cancer is simulated using the MCNPX code in a MIRD phantom, also the contribution of scattered neutron dose during the proton therapy were calculated for the Heart, Lung and Liver.   Materials and Methods: For si...

Hadron beams have attractive growing interest for cancer treatment owing to their high dose localization around the Bragg peak. Heavier-ions such carbon-ion beams, in particular, can realize higher 3D dose localization, compared with a proton beam, owing to a highly biological effect around the Bragg peak and a low multiple scattering effect. Recently, therefore, hadron cancer radiotherapy has ...

Wavelength-division multiplexed fiber-optic links could find applications in various radiation environments. Space industry, for example, could benefit from radiation-tolerant high-speed optical links for the next generation of observation satellites. For application in the nuclear energy industry, the use of passive optical devices also needs to be evaluated at high dose rates and total doses....

For the first time, quantitative measurements of ion stopping at energies around the Bragg peak (or peak ion stopping, which occurs at an ion velocity comparable to the average thermal electron velocity), and its dependence on electron temperature (T(e)) and electron number density (n(e)) in the range of 0.5-4.0 keV and 3×10(22) to 3×10(23) cm(-3) have been conducted, respectively. It is experi...

Background: In radiation therapy with ion beams, lateral distributions of absorbed dose in the tissue are important. Heavy ion therapy, such as carbon-ion therapy, is a novel technique of high-precision external radiotherapy which has advantages over proton therapy in terms of dose locality and biological effectiveness.Methods: In this study, we used Monte Carlo method-based Geant4 toolkit to s...

Introduction: Proton radiotherapy is the one of advanced teletherapy methods. The protons deposit their maximum energy in a position called Bragg peak. Therefore, for treatment of cancer, the tumor should be placed at the Bragg peak or SOBP. The scattered photons and neutrons is a challenge in proton radiotherapy. The aim of this study is calculation of absorbed dose from scatt...