Picosecond laser pulses improves sensitivity in standoff explosive detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8017, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Åkeson, Madeleine ^a   Nordberg, Markus ^b,c   Ehlerding, Anneli ^c   Nilsson, Lars Erik ^a   Östmark, Henric ^b   Strömbeck, Pierre ^a  

^a Portendo AB   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Explosives; Fluorescence; Fluorescence suppression; IED; Picosecond laser; Raman scattering; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CUTTING-OFF; DEFENCE RESEARCH; EXPLOSIVE DETECTION; FEMTOSECONDS; FLUORESCENCE SUPPRESSION; IED; NANOSECOND PULSE; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PICOSECOND LASER; PICOSECOND LASER PULSE; RAMAN SIGNAL; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT; STANDOFF DETECTION; STANDOFF DISTANCE; SURROUNDING MATERIALS; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR; TRACE DETECTION; WELL-ESTABLISHED TECHNIQUES;

EXPLOSIVES; FLUORESCENCE; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCATTERING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRACE ANALYSIS;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

EID: 79960084590     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.883351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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