Standoff detection of chemical and biological threats using miniature widely tunable QCLs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9467, Issue January, 2015, Pages

  Kotidis, Petros ^a   Deutsch, Erik R ^a   Goyal, Anish ^a  

^a Block MEMS LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological threats; Chemical detection; Chemical threats; Standoff detection

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT; EXPLOSIVES; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL THREAT; DETECTION INSTRUMENTS; NATURAL EXTENSION; SAFE DISTANCE; STANDOFF DETECTION; WIDELY TUNABLE;

CHEMICAL DETECTION;

EID: 84937057144     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2178169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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