Towards a FAST-CARS anthrax detector: CARS generation in a DPA surrogate molecule Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) has been investigated as a detection method for the identification of dipicolinic acid (DPA), a marker molecule for bacterial spores of anthrax. The laser dye molecule DCM was used as a surrogate molecule for DPA. In preliminary experiments, a molecular sensitivity was achieved in DCM that is projected to be sufficient to detect the DPA in bacterial spore clumps as small as 5.5 m in diameter, small enough to be of interest in practical detection scenarios. 2003 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Beadie, G., Reintjes, J., Bashkansky, M., Opatrny, T., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

  • 14

complete list of authors

  • Beadie, G||Reintjes, J||Bashkansky, M||Opatrny, T||Scully, MO

publication date

  • October 2003