Terahertz (THz), Mid Infrared (MIR) and Near Infrared (NIR) Technologies for Protection of Critical Infrastructures Agai
| Verlag | Springer Netherlands |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 285 |
| Format | 15,5 x 1,6 x 23,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 464 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics |
| EAN | 9789402420845 |
| Bestell-Nr | 40242084DA |
Critical infrastructures are targets for terrorism and deliver a
valuable vector through which the proliferation of CBRN and explosive
precursors can be detected. Recent technological breakthroughs,
notably in the field of near infrared (NIR), mid infrared (MIR),
Terahertz (THz) and Gigahertz (GHz) sources and detectors, have led to
rugged commercial devices, capable of standoff sensing a range of
these dangerous substances. However, at the same time criminal and
terrorist organizations have also benefited from the availability of
technologies to increase the threat they pose to the security of
citizens and a concerted effort is needed to improve early detection
measures to identify activities, such as the production of homemade
explosives or CBRN that can be potentially dangerous to society. The
key global technological bottleneck to be overcome is the current lack
of integration and networking of mature detection te chnology into
early warning systems for critical infrastructures. Thus, this book
brings together complementary information connecting the research of
leading teams working on critical Infrastructure protection with
academic developers and industrial producers of state of the art
sensors.
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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 refl ection 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.