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Contact: Andrea Turner
andrea.turner@pnl.gov
509-375-3893
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Caption: A conceptual prototype of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Quartz Vibrational Resonator Laser Photo-Acoustic Sensing technology. The prototype includes 10 pairs of quantum cascade lasers and tuning forks in a box that is 12 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high. The full case would weigh less than 15 pounds. The technology can detect gaseous nerve agent surrogates, at the sub-part-per-billion level, in less than one minute.
Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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