Progress report on Safe VISITOR: Approaching a practical instrument for terahertz security screening

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7670, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Heinz, Erik ^a   Born, Detlef ^a   Zieger, Gabriel ^a   May, Torsten ^a   Krause, Torsten ^a   Krüger, Andre ^a   Schulz, Marco ^a   Anders, Solveig ^a   Zakosarenko, Viatcheslav ^a   Meyer, Hans Georg ^a   Starkloff, Michael ^b   Rößler, Mario ^c   Thorwirth, Guenter ^c   Krause, Ulf ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Supracon AG   (Germany)

^c Jena Optronik GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

bolometer; camera; imaging; PTC; Terahertz; TES; THz; video

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SCENARIO; BOLOMETER ARRAY; BOLOMETER CAMERAS; COOLING CYCLE; COOLING STAGE; DETECTOR ARRAYS; EASE OF USE; FAR INFRARED; HIGH FRAME RATE; IMAGE DATA; MICROBOLOMETER; OBJECT DISTANCE; OBJECT RESOLUTION; OPTO-MECHANICAL SCANNERS; PRACTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PROGRESS REPORT; PULSE TUBE COOLERS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SECURITY CAMERAS; SECURITY PERSONNEL; SECURITY SCREENING; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS; TEMPERATURE RESOLUTION; TERA HERTZ; UNIFIED SYSTEM; VIDEO STREAMS; VISIBLE LIGHT;

BOLOMETERS; CAMERAS; COOLING; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED DETECTORS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; SCANNING; SCHEDULING;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953548901     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.852558     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. May, T., Zieger, G., Anders, S., Zakosarenko, V., Starkloff, M., Meyer, H.-G., Thorwirth, G., and Kreysa, E., "Passive stand-off terahertz imaging with 1 hertz frame rate," in [Terahertz for Military and Security Applications VI], Jensen, J. O., Cui, H.-L., Woolard, D. L., and Hwu, R. J., eds., Proc. of SPIE 6949, 69490C (2008).
2. May, T., Zieger, G., Anders, S., Zakosarenko, V., Meyer, H.-G., Schubert, M., Starkloff, M., Rößler, M., Thorwirth, G., and Krause, U., "Safe VISITOR: VISible, infrared and terahertz object recognition for security application," in [Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging Technology XII], Appleby, R. and Wikner, D. A., eds., Proc. of SPIE 7309, 73090E (2009).
3. Alexander, N., Callejero, C., Fiore, F., Gómez, I., Gonzalo, R., Álvaro Enríquez de Luna abd Iñigo Ederra, and Palacios, I., "Suicide bomber detection," in [Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging Technology XII], Appleby, R. and Wikner, D. A., eds., Proc. of SPIE 7309, 73090D (2009).
4. Bjarnason, J. E., Chan, T. L. J., Lee, A. W. M., Celis, M. A., and Brown, E. R., "Millimeter-wave, terahertz, and mid-infrared transmission through common clothing," Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 519-521 (2004).
5. Zmuidzinas, J., "Thermal noise and correlations in photon detection," Appl. Opt. 42, 4989-5008 (2003).
6. Irwin, K. D., "An application of electrothermal feedback for high resolution cryogenic particle detection," Appl. Phys. Lett. 66, 1998-2000 (1995).
7. Boucher, R., May, T., Wagner, T., Zakosarenko, V., Anders, S., and Meyer, H.-G., "Structural and electrical properties of AuPd/Mo bi-layer films for transition edge sensors," Supercond. Sci. Technol. 19, 138-142 (2006). (Pubitemid 41809813)
8. Anders, S., May, T., Zakosarenko, V., Starkloff, M., Zieger, G., and Meyer, H.-G., "Structured SiN membranes as platform for cryogenic bolometers," Micr. Eng. 86, 913-915 (2009).
9. Kreysa, E., Gemund, H.-P., Gromke, J., Haslam, C., Reichertz, L., Haller, E., Beeman, J., Hansen, V., Sievers, A., and Zylka, R., "Bolometer array development at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie," Infrared Phys. 40, 191-197 (1999).