Absorption-sensitive diffuse reflection imaging of concealed powders using a terahertz quantum cascade laser

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 5997-6007

  Dean, Paul ^a   Shaukat, Muhammad U ^a   Khanna, Suraj P ^a   Chakraborty, Subhasish ^b   Lachab, Mohammad ^a   Burnett, Andrew ^a   Davies, Giles ^a   Linfield, Edmund H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; POLYSTYRENES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUASICRYSTALS;

DIFFUSE REFLECTION IMAGING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN TERAHERTZ IMAGING; REFLECTION GEOMETRY;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYETHYLENE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; DIODE LASER; LIGHT; POWDER; RADIATION SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ABSORPTION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LIGHT; POLYETHYLENE; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POWDERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 43049084088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005997     Document Type: Article

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