Broadband tunable external cavity quantum cascade lasers for standoff detection of explosives

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8373, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hugger, S ^a   Fuchs, F ^a   Jarvis, J ^a   Kinzer, M ^a   Yang, Q K ^a   Bronner, W ^a   Driad, R ^a   Aidam, R ^a   Degreif, K ^b   Schnurer F ^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERED RADIATION; CHARACTERISTIC ABSORPTION; CONTACTLESS DETECTION; DETECTION SCHEME; EXTERNAL CAVITY; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; LASER ILLUMINATION; MIDINFRARED LASERS; PENTAERYTHRITOL TETRANITRATE; SOLID RESIDUES; STANDOFF DETECTION; TUNING RANGES;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SENSORS;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 84863895452     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.918398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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