[ RadSafe ] Optical Couplant

[Syd H. Levine]

I looked for something, even qualitative, and could not find anything 
interesting.  I found some stuff related to fiber optics that surprised me 
(not as big an improvement as I expected), but I do not know how that 
applies to scintillation detectors.  I do not *think* a scintillation 
detector will work at all without coupling compound.

Syd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Marshall Reber" <jmarshall.reber at comcast.net>
To: "Syd H. Levine" <syd.levine at mindspring.com>
Cc: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Optical Couplant


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> On Oct 17, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Syd H. Levine wrote:
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>> I finally got around to writing a page about optical coupling  compounds:
>> http://www.logwell.com/tech/servtips/optical_coupling_grease.html
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>> Comments or criticisms needed and much appreciated.
>
> It would be useful to quote in quantitative terms the actual light 
> transmission improvement of using the coupling compounds.
>
> Unfortunately I am unaware of such data.
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