LEADER 05286nam 22006735 450 001 9910484009603321 005 20251229071521.0 010 $a94-024-2082-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-024-2082-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000011912227 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6579176 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6579176 035 $a(OCoLC)1250085726 035 $a(PPN)255290713 035 $a(BIP)80080724 035 $a(BIP)78514102 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-024-2082-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011912227 100 $a20210430d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTerahertz (THz), Mid Infrared (MIR) and Near Infrared (NIR) Technologies for Protection of Critical Infrastructures Against Explosives and CBRN /$fedited by Mauro Fernandes Pereira, Apostolos Apostolakis 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aDordrecht :$cSpringer Netherlands :$cImprint: Springer,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (290 pages) 225 1 $aNATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics,$x1874-6535 311 08$a94-024-2081-9 327 $aPart 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 reflection 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. 330 $aCritical infrastructures are targets for terrorism and deliver a valuable vector through which the proliferation of CBRN and explosive precursors can be detected. Recent technological breakthroughs, notably in the field of near infrared (NIR), mid infrared (MIR), Terahertz (THz) and Gigahertz (GHz) sources and detectors, have led to rugged commercial devices, capable of standoff sensing a range of these dangerous substances. However, at the same time criminal and terrorist organizations have also benefited from the availability of technologies to increase the threat they pose to the security of citizens and a concerted effort is needed to improve early detection measures to identify activities, such as the production of homemade explosives or CBRN that can be potentially dangerous to society. The key global technological bottleneck to be overcome is the current lack of integration and networking of mature detection technology into early warning systems for critical infrastructures. Thus, this book brings together complementary information connecting the research of leading teams working on critical Infrastructure protection with academic developers and industrial producers of state of the art sensors. . 410 0$aNATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics,$x1874-6535 606 $aLasers 606 $aSecurity systems 606 $aOptical materials 606 $aCondensed matter 606 $aLaser 606 $aSecurity Science and Technology 606 $aOptical Materials 606 $aCondensed Matter Physics 615 0$aLasers. 615 0$aSecurity systems. 615 0$aOptical materials. 615 0$aCondensed matter. 615 14$aLaser. 615 24$aSecurity Science and Technology. 615 24$aOptical Materials. 615 24$aCondensed Matter Physics. 676 $a621.3813 702 $aPereira$b Mauro F. 702 $aApostolakis$b Apostolos 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484009603321 996 $aTerahertz (THz), Mid Infrared (MIR) and Near Infrared (NIR) Technologies for Protection of Critical Infrastructures Against Explosives and CBRN$94286953 997 $aUNINA