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Standoff Detection via Single-Beam Spectral Notch Filtered Pulses

Optics 2012-02-07 v2

Abstract

We demonstrate single-beam coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS), for detecting and identifying traces of solids, including minute amounts of explosives, from a standoff distance (>50 m) using intense femtosecond pulses. Until now, single-beam CARS methods relied on pulse-shapers in order to obtain vibrational spectra. Here we present a simple and easy-to-implement detection scheme, using a commercially available notch filter, that does not require the use of a pulse-shaper.

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@article{arxiv.1111.4583,
  title  = {Standoff Detection via Single-Beam Spectral Notch Filtered Pulses},
  author = {Adi Natan and Jonathan M. Levitt and Leigh Graham and Ori Katz and Yaron Silberberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4583},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

3 pages, 3 figures

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