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US Patent 7088435: Controlled substance detection and identification…

US 7088435  ·  granted 2006-08-08

Abstract

A system for detecting controlled substances on an object including at least one laser for illuminating at least part of an object with laser energy and either a second harmonic detector or a luminescence controlled substance detector, or both. Additionally, a system also including a Raman scattering controlled substance detector is disclosed.

Patent Number 7088435
Title Controlled substance detection and identification system
Filed 2003-05-02
Granted 2006-08-08
Inventor(s) Brestel; Mordechai, Gaft; Michael, Sharon; Uzi
Assignee Laser Detect Systems Ltd.
CPC Classification G01N 21/00, G01J 3/44
Number of Claims 308

Abstract

A system for detecting controlled substances on an object including at least one laser for illuminating at least part of an object with laser energy and either a second harmonic detector or a luminescence controlled substance detector, or both. Additionally, a system also including a Raman scattering controlled substance detector is disclosed.

Claim 1

A system for detecting controlled substances on an object comprising: at least one laser for illuminating at least part of an object with laser energy at a firstwavelength; a second harmonic detector for detecting laser energy scattered from said object to detect scattered laser energy having a second wavelength which is a second harmonic of said first wavelength, wherein detection of scattered laser energyhaving a second wavelength which is a second harmonic of said first wavelength indicates that one or more controlled substances may be present on said object; and at least one additional controlled substance detector comprising at least one of atime-resolved luminescence controlled substance detector for detecting luminescence produced by impingement of said laser energy, wherein detection of luminescence indicates that one or more controlled substances may be present on said object, and aRaman scattering controlled substance detector, for detecting Raman scattering produced by impingement of said laser energy.

Claims

308 total

A system for detecting controlled substances on an object comprising: at least one laser for illuminating at least part of an object with laser energy at a firstwavelength; a second harmonic detector for detecting laser energy scattered from said object to detect scattered laser energy having a second wavelength which is a second harmonic of said first wavelength, wherein detection of scattered laser energyhaving a second wavelength which is a second harmonic of said first wavelength indicates that one or more controlled substances may be present on said object; and at least one additional controlled substance detector comprising at least one of atime-resolved luminescence controlled substance detector for detecting luminescence produced by impingement of said laser energy, wherein detection of luminescence indicates that one or more controlled substances may be present on said object, and aRaman scattering controlled substance detector, for detecting Raman scattering produced by impingement of said laser energy.