Fiber-optic laser sensor for mine detection and verification

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3817-3825

  Bohling, Christian ^a   Scheel, Dirk ^a   Hohmann, Konrad ^a   Schade, Wolfgang ^a   Reuter, Matthias ^a   Holl, Gerhard ^b  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Wehrwissen schaftliches Institut für Werk   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LASERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER-OPTIC LASER SENSORS; MICROCHIP LASERS; MINE DETECTION; MINE PRODDER;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 33746041828     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.003817     Document Type: Article

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