Imaging standoff detection of explosives using widely tunable midinfrared quantum cascade lasers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Fuchs, Frank ^a   Hugger, Stefan ^a   Kinzer, Michel ^a   Aidam, Rolf ^a   Bronner, Wolfgang ^a   Lösch, Rainer ^a   Yang, Quankui ^a   Degreif, Kai ^b   Schnrer, Frank ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IPM   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY ICT   (Germany)

Author keywords

CBRNE detection; external cavity laser; infrared laser; infrared spectroscopy; quantum cascade laser; remote sensing; stand off detection

Indexed keywords

ANGLES OF INCIDENCE; BACKSCATTERED LIGHT; BACKSCATTERED RADIATION; CBRNE DETECTION; EXTERNAL CAVITY; EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER; FALSE ALARMS; HYPERSPECTRAL DATA; INFRARED IMAGERS; LASER SOURCES; MID-INFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE; MIDINFRARED; PENTAERYTHRITOL TETRANITRATE; POLYACRYLICS; REAL-WORLD; SENSITIVE DETECTION; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; STAND-OFF DETECTION; TEST SAMPLES; WAVELENGTH TUNING; WIDELY TUNABLE;

EXPLOSIVES; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REMOTE SENSING;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 79953856412     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3506195     Document Type: Article

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