Infrared photothermal imaging for standoff detection applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8373, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kendziora, C A ^a   Jones, Robert M ^b   Furstenberg, Robert ^a   Papantonakis, Michael ^a   Nguyen, Viet ^a   Andrew McGill, R ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ITT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Explosives; Focal plane array; Imaging; Infrared; Photothermal; QCL; Stand off detection

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; COMPLEX SUBSTRATES; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; EYE-SAFE; HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; IN-FIELD; INTENSITY LIMIT; IR FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; LASER ILLUMINATION; PHOTO-THERMAL; PHOTOTHERMAL IMAGING; PHOTOTHERMAL PROCESS; QCL; RESONANCE ENHANCED; STAND-OFF DISTANCE (SOD); STANDOFF DETECTION; THERMAL EMISSIONS; THERMAL PHENOMENA; TRACE ANALYTES;

EXPLOSIVES; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SENSORS;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

EID: 84863896482     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.918594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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