Alternative Detection Approaches for Nuclear Materials

Standoff detection of nuclear materials continues to be one of the most critical tasks that security specialists must confront in a wide variety of applications, both military and civilian. There have been several approaches for standoff nuclear material detection. Each of them utilizes a different fundamental property of nuclear materials to improve the sensitivity of detection. In this SBIR program, we propose to develop a high performance field deployable standoff nuclear material detection system based on our advanced mid-infrared tunable laser source.