Active hyperspectral imaging using a quantum cascade laser (QCL) array and digital-pixel focal plane array (DFPA) camera

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 14392-14401

  Goyal, Anish ^a   Myers, Travis ^a   Wang, Christine A ^a   Kelly, Michael ^a   Tyrrell, Brian ^a   Gokden, B ^b   Sanchez, Antonio ^a   Turner, George ^a   Capasso, Federico ^b  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIXELS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REFLECTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGES; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; ILLUMINATION SOURCES; MULTIWAVELENGTH; REFLECTANCE IMAGES; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; THERMAL BACKGROUND; WAVELENGTH BEAM COMBINING;

CAMERAS;

EID: 84902958954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.014392     Document Type: Article

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