THz spectroscopy of explosives and related compounds

Michael J. Fitch, Dunja Schauki, Caroline Dodson, Robert Osiander

Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2004 · 18 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

In this work, we present initial results of time-domain Fourier transform spectroscopy in the THz frequency range (from 1 to 20 THz) to detect and identify explosives and related compounds (ERCs). Comparison is made with conventional FT-IR spectroscopy. A comparison can also be make with the results of chemical modeling calculations (reported previously) to obtain spectroscopic information on ERCs and environmental background.

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