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The objective of OPTIX is to contribute to increasing the security of the European citizens by the development of a transportable system for the stand-off detection and identification of explosives in real scenarios at distances of around 20 metres (sensor to target), using alternative or simultaneous analysis by three different complementary optical technologies (LIBS, RAMAN, IR absorption). The integration of LIBS, RAMAN and IR technologies on a single platform will be possible thanks to the similarities between the hardware needed by each technology (in terms of laser, spectrometers, optics) and the treatment given to the data generated by each of the technologies (Chemometrics). The advantages provided by the use of the three complementary technologies will include:
Although the hardware needed by each of the technologies has some similarities, it is not exactly the same and therefore, some developments will be necessary both in the core technologies and also in the enabling technologies (spectrometry, lasers, optics and chemometrics) to make it possible to use the same equipment to perform 3 different analysis of the same target. Initially, each technology will be individually developed and tested at the universities involved. In parallel, work on the laser and spectrometer sub-systems will be carried out, as well as in the chemometrics domain. Optical and system design will take place in parallel. During the integration phase, testing of the individual technologies will be performed at the University of Malaga with the final elements to be shared by the system in the final prototype (common laser source, common optics, common spectrometer, Data Analysis and Fusion software). Once the integration phase has finished and the laboratory testing is concluded, the OPTIX prototype will be shipped to FOI for further testing in an outdoor real environment.
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