AOTF spectrometer for water pollutant monitoring

Author

Gupta, N. ; Dahmani, R.

Author_Institution

Army Res. Lab., Adelphi, MD, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

30 Oct-2 Nov 1997

Firstpage

751

Abstract

The requirement for providing the soldier with clean drinking water is of utmost importance to the Department of Defense. A new joint services project has been initiated to carry out the research and development needed to find an experimental method suitable for this task. One of the techniques identified for this purpose is Raman spectroscopy, which provides highly reliable spectral signatures for chemicals and can be used as fingerprints for their identification. The authors at the Army Research Laboratory have been working on the development of a small, field-portable, rugged, high-resolution, high-sensitivity spectrometer that can be used in a very compact setup to carry out Raman spectral measurements for the detection of water pollutants. The spectrometer has been used to measure Raman spectra of nerve agent simulants

Keywords

Raman spectroscopy; military equipment; monitoring; visible spectrometers; water pollution measurement; AOTF spectrometer; Army Research Laboratory; Department of Defense; H₂O; experimental method; highly reliable spectral signatures; joint services project; nerve agent simulants; small field-portable rugged high-resolution high-sensitivity spectrometer; soldier provision with clean drinking water; water pollutant monitoring; High speed optical techniques; Holographic optical components; Monitoring; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical scattering; Optical signal processing; Raman scattering; Spectroscopy; Water pollution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4262-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1997.757745

Filename

757745