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7 December 2004 Portable Raman integrated tunable sensor (RAMiTs) for environmental field monitoring
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This paper describes a self-contained, portable Raman instrument that has been developed for environmental and homeland defense applications. The instrument consists of a 830-nm diode laser for excitation, an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) for wavelength discrimination, and an avalanche photodiode for detection. The primary component of this system is the AOTF and it has been selected based on its spectral range along with its high resolution, ~7.5 cm-1. Software has been developed in house using C programming language for controlling the instrument (i.e. the AOTF frequency, the signal acquisition, etc.). Evaluation of this instrument has been performed by analyzing several standard samples and comparing to a conventional Raman system. In addition to system evaluation, this paper will also discuss potential applications of this instrument to trace detection of hazardous chemicals using the Raman Integrated Tunable Sensor (RAMiTs) coupled with surface-enhance Raman scattering process.
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Musundi B. Wabuyele, Matthew E. Martin, Fei Yan, David L. Stokes, Joel Mobley, Brian M. Cullum, Alan L. Wintenberg, Roberto Lenarduzzi, and Tuan Vo-Dinh "Portable Raman integrated tunable sensor (RAMiTs) for environmental field monitoring", Proc. SPIE 5586, Advanced Environmental, Chemical, and Biological Sensing Technologies II, (7 December 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.580125
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KEYWORDS
Raman spectroscopy

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Sensors

Avalanche photodetectors

Chemical analysis

Linear filtering

Crystals

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