University of Mississippi
Standoff Laser Interferometric Photoacoustic Spectroscopy for the Detection of Explosives
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThere will unfortunately always be a pressing need to detect and identify explosive materials. Performing detection at a standoff distance is much safer and this is the impetus for this work. Photoacoustic spectroscopy is well suited to the task of explosive detection at a standoff distance. A detailed theory of the standoff measurement of the physical response of a system to photoacoustic excitation with an interferometric sensor has been constructed and tested. The use of this methodology to measure the standoff photoacoustic spectrum of TNT with an interferometric sensor has clearly been demonstrated. This methodology and the tested theory can both be used to examine pressing problems in explosive detection and characterization.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D. in Physics
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Physics and Astronomy
- Year dc:date.available
- 2012
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Marcus, Logan
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Richard Raspet
- Bonnie A. Avery
- Vyacheslav Aranchuk
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1512
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2511