Laser-Based Optical Detection of Explosives offers a comprehensive review of past, present,
and emerging laser-based methods for the detection of a variety of explosives. This book …

The research topic of air lasing is of fundamental and practical importance, which has grown
rapidly in the past decade. Air lasing, or a laser‐like emission from air species including …

When coupled to characteristic, fingerprint vibrational and rotational motions of molecules,
an electromagnetic field with an appropriate frequency and waveform offers a highly …

Air lasing refers to the remote optical pumping of the constituents of ambient air that results
in a directional laserlike emission from the pumped region. Intense current investigations of …

Recently, S. Mitryukovskiy et al. presented experimental evidence showing that backward
Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) at 337 nm can be obtained from plasma filaments in …

We perform a proof-of-principle demonstration of chemically specific standoff gas sensing, in
which a coherent stimulated Raman signal is detected in the direction anticollinear to a two …

Light can be used to modify and control properties of media, as in the case of
electromagnetically induced transparency or, more recently, for the generation of slow light …

Nitrogen molecular ions (N_2^+) in air plasma pumped by femtosecond laser pulses give
rise to superradiant emission at 391.4 nm in the presence of an external seed pulse at …

We investigated ultrashort pulse filamentation and lasing action of N2+ for pump-probe
experiments in gases. Using femtosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering, the white …

Collection of weak signals from remote locations is the primary goal and the primary hurdle
of optical standoff detection schemes such as light detection and ranging and laser-induced …