Broadband terahertz time-domain and Raman spectroscopy of explosives

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6549, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Burnett, A D ^a   Fan, W H ^a   Upadhya, P C ^a   Cunningham, J E ^a   Edwards, H G M ^b   Kendrick, J ^b   Munshi, T ^b   Hargreaves, M ^b   Linfield, E H ^a   Davies, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Explosives; Molecular mechanics; Raman; Temperature dependence; Terahertz; Time domain spectroscopy; Vibrational modes

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PROPANE; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TERAHERTZ ABSORPTION; TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATIONAL MODES;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 35948981221     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.719283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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