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Filamentation “remote” sensing of chemical and biological agents/pollutants using only one femtosecond laser source

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All matters in the path of filaments induced by an intense femtosecond laser pulse propagating in air could be fragmented and result in the emission of characteristic fluorescence spectra from the excited fragments. The fluorescence spectra exhibit specific signatures (fingerprints) that can be used for the identification of various substances including chemical and biological species. In this paper, we present an overview of the recent progress in our laboratory concerning the “remote” sensing of chemical and biological agents/pollutants in air using filamentation-induced nonlinear fluorescence techniques.

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  1. Centre d’Optique, Photonique et Laser (COPL) & Département de Physique, de Génie Physique et d’Optique, Université Laval, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada

    S. L. Chin, H. L. Xu, Q. Luo, F. Théberge, W. Liu, J. F. Daigle, Y. Kamali, P. T. Simard, J. Bernhardt, S. A. Hosseini, M. Sharifi, G. Méjean, A. Azarm & C. Marceau

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    H. L. Xu

  3. Defence R&D Canada-Valcartier, Québec, G3J 1X5, Canada

    F. Théberge, G. Roy, P. Mathieu, J. R. Simard, M. Châteauneuf & J. Dubois

  4. Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Information Science and Technology, Education Ministry of China, Tianjin, 300071, People’s Republic of China

    W. Liu

  5. Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, Université J. Fourier de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

    G. Méjean

  6. International Laser Center, Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    O. Kosareva & V. P. Kandidov

  7. Charles M. Bowden Research Center, AMSRD-AMR-WS-ST, Redstone Arsenal, 35898, AL, USA

    N. Aközbek

  8. Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80303-0440, USA

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Chin, S.L., Xu, H.L., Luo, Q. et al. Filamentation “remote” sensing of chemical and biological agents/pollutants using only one femtosecond laser source. Appl. Phys. B 95, 1–12 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-009-3381-7

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