Designing optical sensor arrays with enhanced sensitivity for explosives detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3392, Issue , 1998, Pages 426-431

  Albert, Keith J ^a   Dickinson, Todd A ^a   Walt, David R ^a   White, Joel ^a   Kauer, John S ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical fibers; Optical sensors; Pattern recognition; Sensor array

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EXPLOSIVES; NEURAL NETWORKS; NITRATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; POLLUTION; REMEDIATION; SENSOR ARRAYS; VAPORS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ANALYTE; ARTIFICIAL NOSE; ENHANCED SENSITIVITIES; EXPLOSIVES DETECTIONS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NEURAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS; ORGANIC VAPORS; SATURATED VAPORS; TEST SETS; TRAINING SETS; VOLATILE ORGANICS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0004453312     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.324216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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