Behavior of fibre Bragg gratings under high total dose gamma radiation

We report on the effect of MGy dose level gamma-irradiation on the paramete rs of fibre Bragg gratings intended for sensing applications. The gamma-rad iation sensitivities of gratings written with near-UV 330 nm light in hydro gen loaded Ge-doped fibres and of a grating written in a N-doped fibre were found to be higher than that of gratings written in a 10 mol.% Ge-doped fi bre without hydrogen loading. In the former cases, changes in the amplitude and the width of the Bragg peak were observed during gamma-irradiation whi le no change was observed in the latter case. For the grating written in th e N-doped fibre, the radiation-induced shift of the Bragg peak did not satu rate while for gratings written in hydrogen-loaded Ge-doped fibres it satur ated to a higher level than for gratings written in unloaded Ge-doped fibre .