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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas H. Jeys, Lexington, MA (US);
Antonio Sanchez, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/164 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/164 ;
Abstract
Biological aerosols are detected in real time by passing air, which may contain the aerosols, through a duct having a pair of photodetectors adjacent the duct for detecting fluorescence of the aerosols produced by ultraviolet laser beam illumination of the airflow. A pair of opposed mirrors, make the effective sample air volume large, by producing multiple ultra-violet beam illumination paths through adjacent portions of the duct for each single pulsed beam, in turn increasing the magnitude of the detected fluorescence signal.