THz imaging and sensing for security applications—explosives, weapons and drugs

By John F. Federici, B. Schulkin, F. Huang, D. Gary, R. Barat, Filipe Oliveira, D. Zimdars. 2005

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Spectroscopy

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Review of Terahertz Tomography Techniques (2014, background): “For example, explosives [94 – 97] or illicit drugs [98 – 100] have been efficiently localized and unambiguously identified within an envelope [101], a parcel, or a suitcase [102].”
Double-Corrugated Rectangular Waveguide Slow-Wave Structure for Terahertz Vacuum Devices (2010, background): “The availability of sources and amplifiers in the submillimeter wavelength frequency range would enable numerous applications in the field of security, medicine, material science, and imaging that require powerful portable compact lightweight devices [1]–[3].”
Metamaterials Application in Sensing (2012, background): “Sensing the complex dielectric properties of a sample in the terahertz frequency range can directly identify the chemical or biochemical molecular composition either by detecting the resonant absorption of molecular or phonon resonances for small molecular compounds [44,45].”
Progress in terahertz nondestructive testing: A review (2018, neutral): “1–10 THz), including pharmaceutical tablet coatings [9–12], marine protective coatings [13], automotive paints [14], polymer coatings [15], art paintings [16], public security [17,18], and medical applications [19,20].”
Sinusoidally Modulated Graphene Leaky-Wave Antenna for Electronic Beamscanning at THz (2013, background): “However, the applications of THz transceivers which include chemical and biological remote sensing, image scanning, pico-cellular and intrasatellite communications, or high resolution imaging and tomography [11]–[14], require antennas with specific capabilities in terms of beamscanning and directivi”
Terahertz Wave Air Photonics: Terahertz Wave Generation and Detection With Laser-Induced Gas Plasma (2011, background): “testing have thrust THz research from relative obscurity to new heights [1]–[4].”
Explosives Detection by Terahertz Spectroscopy—A Bridge Too Far? (2011, background): “Ammonium Nitrate and mixtures such as ANFO have smooth spectra with no discernable features [17].”