Remote detection of explosives by enhanced pulsed laser photodissociation/laser-induced fluorescence method

NATO Security through Science Series B: Physics and Biophysics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 59-68

  Arusi Parpar, Talya ^a   Levy, Izhak ^a  

^a Nonlinear Optics Group   (Israel)

Author keywords

Explosives; Laser induced fluorescence; Photodissociation; Remote detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749531741     PISSN: 1871465X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5159-X_8     Document Type: Article

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