Use of quantum cascade lasers for detection of explosives: Progress and challenges

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Bauer, Christoph ^a,b   Willer, Ulrike ^a   Schade, Wolfgang ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b AIM INFRAROT MODULE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laser applications; Photoacoustic spectroscopy; Photonics; Sensors

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SECURITY; DETECTION METHODS; DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES; EQUILIBRIUM CONCENTRATION; LASER SOURCES; LOW VAPOR PRESSURES; MID-INFRARED DETECTION; MID-INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; OPTICAL METHODS; PHOTOFRAGMENTATION; QUARTZ-ENHANCED PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPIES; SENSITIVE DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE; TRIACETONE TRIPEROXIDE; TUNABLE DIODE LASER SPECTROSCOPY;

EXPLOSIVES; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; NITRATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUARTZ; SENSORS; VAPORS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 78449263622     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3498771     Document Type: Article

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