Standoff and arms-length detection of chemicals with single-beam coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Li, Haowen ^a   Harris, D Ahmasi ^b   Xu, Bingwei ^b   Wrzesinski, Paul J ^b   Lozovoy, Vadim V ^b   Dantus, Marcos ^b  

^a Biophotonic Solutions Inc   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMICALS; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

COHERENT ANTI STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING; DETECTION OF CHEMICALS; FAST DETECTIONS; FUNDAMENTAL VIBRATIONS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; PHASE COHERENT; STAND-OFF DISTANCE (SOD); STANDOFF DETECTION;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

EXPLOSIVE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DANGEROUS GOODS; EVALUATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; EXPLOSIVE AGENTS; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; LASERS; MICROCHEMISTRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 61449211181     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000B17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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