Evaluation of a high throughput liquid crystal tunable filter for raman chemical imaging of threat materials

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6378, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wang, Xinghua ^a   Voigt, Thomas C ^a   Bos, Philip J ^b   Nelson, Matthew P ^a   Treado, Patrick J ^a  

^a ChemImage Corporation   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birefringent filter; Hyperspectral imaging; Liquid crystal tunable filter; Raman chemical imaging

Indexed keywords

HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; LIQUID CRYSTAL TUNABLE FILTERS (LCTF); RAMAN CHEMICAL IMAGING; REJECTION EFFICIENCY;

BIREFRINGENCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 33846261521     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.686265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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