Challenges of infrared reflective spectroscopy of solid-phase explosives and chemicals on surfaces

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8358, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Phillips, Mark C ^a   Suter, Jonathan D ^a   Bernacki, Bruce E ^a   Johnson, Timothy J ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex refractive index; Explosives detection; Infrared spectroscopy; Quantum cascade laser; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVES; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER TUNING; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COMPLEX DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES; INFRARED REFLECTIVE SPECTROSCOPY; MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION; PHYSICS-BASED MODELING; REAL-WORLD OBJECTS; REFERENCE SPECTRUM;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

EID: 84868595898     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.919477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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