Multi-beam laser Doppler vibrometer for landmine detection

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Aranchuk, Vyacheslav ^a   Lal, Amit ^b,c   Hess, Cecil ^b   Sabatier, James M ^d  

^a MetroLaser Inc   (United States)

^b METROLASER INC   (United States)

^c Laser Vibrometer Group

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Landmine detection; Laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV); Laser acoustic sensing; Seismic

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

LANDMINE DETECTION; LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETER (LDV); LASER-ACOUSTIC SENSING; SPECKLE NOISE; VIBRATION SENSOR;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 33846093638     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2358975     Document Type: Article

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