Detection of condensed-phase explosives via laser-induced vaporization, photodissociation, and resonant excitation

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 31, 2008, Pages 5767-5776

  Wynn, C M ^a   Palmacci, S ^a   Kunz, R R ^a   Clow, K ^a   Rothschild, M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; FLUORESCENCE; LASER EXCITATION; PUMPING (LASER); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

2 ,4 ,6-TRINITROTOLUENE; 2 ,6-DINITROTOLUENE; CONDENSED-PHASE EXPLOSIVES; HEXAHYDRO-1 ,3 ,5-TRINITRO-1 ,3 ,5-TRIAZINE; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; LASER-INDUCED VAPORIZATION; PENTAERYTHRITOL TETRANITRATE; VIBRATIONALLY EXCITED;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 60649091583     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.005767     Document Type: Article

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