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Remote laser assisted biological aerosol standoff detection in atmosphere

US7683346B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force · US

Inventors

Antonio C. Ting · Silver Spring, US
Ilya Alexeev · West Chester, US
Phillip A. Sprangle · Great Falls, US
Richard F. Hubbard · Burke, US
Glenn Rubel · Baldwin, US
Eldridge Briscoe · San Diego, US
Christopher I. Moore · Central Falls, US

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 28, 2006
Grant date	Mar 23, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 21, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2021/6423
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method used to detect and identify biological substances suspended in air in the form of aerosols or clouds including generating a remote infrared light beam directed toward the atmospheric contamination, producing an ultraviolet light beam from the infrared light beam by compression via the air through which the IR beam travels, and producing fluorescence of the atmospheric contamination, when the generated ultraviolet light contacts the atmospheric contamination. The fluorescent signals are then processed in order to identify the nature of the atmospheric contamination.

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