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Standoff Raman Spectroscopic Detection of Explosive Molecules

  • Chung, Jin Hyuk (Defense Advanced R&D Institute, Agency for Defense Development) ;
  • Cho, Soo Gyeong (Defense Advanced R&D Institute, Agency for Defense Development)
  • Received : 2013.02.09
  • Accepted : 2013.03.11
  • Published : 2013.06.20
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Abstract

We developed a standoff Raman detection system for explosive molecules (EMs). Our system was composed of reflective telescope with 310 mm diameter lens, 532 nm pulse laser, and Intensified Charge-Coupled Device (ICCD) camera. In order to remove huge background noise coming from ambient light, laser pulses with nanosecond time width were fired to target sample and ICCD was gated to open only during the time when the scattered Raman signal from the sample arrived at ICCD camera. We performed standoff experiments with military EMs by putting the detector at 10, 20 and 30 m away from the source. The standoff results were compared with the confocal Raman results. Based on our standoff experiments, we were able to observe the peaks in the range of 1200 and $1600cm^{-1}$, where vibrational modes of nitro groups were appeared. The wave numbers and shapes of these peaks may serve as good references in detecting and identifying various EMs.

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