Enabling low-cost, high-performance vapor-phase TNT detection by optimizing multimode fiber sensing platform

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7753, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ma, Jianjun ^a   Kos, Aldona ^a   Bock, Wojtek J ^a   Li, Xianzhe ^b   Nguyen, Huy ^b   Wang, Zhi Yuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

evanescent wave; explosive detection; Fiber optic sensor; fluorescence; fluorescent quenching; multimode fiber; sensory polymer film; spectroscopy; TNT detection

Indexed keywords

EVANESCENT WAVE; EXPLOSIVE DETECTION; FLUORESCENT QUENCHING; MULTIMODES; SENSORY POLYMER FILM; TNT DETECTION;

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; FLUORESCENCE; MULTIMODE FIBERS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; QUENCHING; SENSORS; VAPORS;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

EID: 79957972594     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.885639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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