Towards optoelectronic detection of explosives

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 210-219

  Wojtas, J ^a   Stacewicz, T ^b   Bielecki, Z ^a   Rutecka, B ^a   Medrzycki, R ^a   Mikolajczyk, J ^a  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

absorption spectroscopy; explosives detection; laser spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DECOMPOSITION; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; NITROGEN OXIDES;

BLUE-VIOLET DIODE LASERS; DETECTION LIMITS; DETECTION METHODS; DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES; NOX SENSORS; OPTOELECTRONIC DETECTION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 84875017903     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11772-013-0082-x     Document Type: Article

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