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We present experimental results on the remote detection of surface traces of some high-energy materials using a Raman lidar designed on the basis of an excimer KrF laser with a narrow generation line and a multichannel spectrum analyzer based on diffraction a spectrograph and time-gated ICCD camera. The sensitivity of the system is evaluated for a detection range of 10 m. A detection limit is attained for the traces of nitrogen-containing chemical materials with a surface density of 0.5 μg/cm2 at a signal accumulation of over 1000 laser pulses.
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Original Russian Text © S.M. Bobrovnikov, E.V. Gorlov, V.I. Zharkov, 2017, published in Optika Atmosfery i Okeana.
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Bobrovnikov, S.M., Gorlov, E.V. & Zharkov, V.I. Remote detection of traces of high-energy materials on an ideal substrate using the Raman effect. Atmos Ocean Opt 30, 604–608 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1024856017060057
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