Terahertz (THz), Mid Infrared (MIR) and Near Infrared (NIR) Technologies for Protection of Critical Infrastructures Against Explosives and CBRN

In: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics

In: Springer eBook Collection

Abstract

Part I State of the Art in sensors for the protection of critical infrastructures -- 1 Sensor Data Fusion and Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures -- Part II Beyond QCLs, ICLs and Superlattices: competing technologies for detection of explosives and CBRN -- 2 High Power, Widely Tunable, and Beam Steerable Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade -- 3 Broadband terahertz gas spectroscopy through multimode self-mixing in a quantum cascade laser -- 4 Crucial aspects of the device processing of quantum cascade lasers -- 5 Broadband gas QEPAS detection exploiting a monolithic DFB-QCL array -- 6 Global optimization methods for the design of MIR-THz QCLs applied to explosives detection -- Part III Superlattices and other technologies for GHz-THz sensing -- 7 Non-Destructive testing THz systems: fast postal scanner case study -- 8 Recent advances in superlattice frequency multipliers -- 9 Solid-State Millimeter-Wave through Terahertz Transceivers -- 10 Transmission and reflection characteristics of textiles in the Terahertz range -- 11 Transition between localized and delocalized terahertz conductivity in modulated nanostructures studied by Monte-Carlo calculations -- 12 THz Sources and Detectors Fabricated from High Temperature Superconductors -- 13 Semiconductor components for THz-TDS systems activated by compact fibre lasers -- 14 Soft chemical ionization mass spectrometry analyses of hazardous gases and decomposition products of explosives in air -- 15 On the prospect of application of point-contact sensors to solving the global security problems: an analytical review -- 16 Development of Gas Sensor Systems in the Infrared Region -- 17 Raman Cooperative UV Generation with Possible Applications in microbiology -- 18 THz Spectroscopy of Advanced Materials.