Terahertz reflection spectroscopy for explosives detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5790, Issue , 2005, Pages 281-288

  Fitch, Michael J ^a   Dodson, Caroline ^b   Chen, Yunqing ^c   Liu, Haibo ^c   Zhang, X C ^c   Osiander, R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Explosives; Spectroscopy; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DETECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; EXPLOSIVES; INFRARED RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ ILLUMINATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 26844457976     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.604763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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