STTR Phase II: Compact, Low-cost Remote Sensing of Methamphetamine Labs

这个小型企业技术转让（STTR）第二阶段项目解决了一种敏感、便携、低成本的激光遥感器的紧急执法需求，用于从远处探测非法甲基苯丙胺（冰毒）生产实验室。研究目标是：1。改进、优化和封装激光子系统；2 .接收机子系统的设计、构建与优化；将激光和接收机子系统集成到紧凑的面包板和测试中；设计和制作初版原型。为了实现这些目标，该团队和蒙大拿州立大学将优化在第一阶段努力下开发的关键高能、窄带、中红外脉冲激光系统的性能。激光子系统将被小型化和封装，用于传感器和直接销售，以引导传感器商业化。接收机子系统将根据性能、尺寸、重量和成本进行设计、构造和优化。激光和接收机子系统将被集成，该装置将进行现场测试。然后将设计和建造第一个修订原型，包括确定的改进和修改，以及执法部门的客户输入。我国使用冰毒已达到流行病的程度。它被认为是最容易上瘾的非法药物，可以很容易地用广泛可用和廉价的成分生产，并且正在迅速受到年轻人的欢迎。2003年联邦判决中几乎有五分之一与冰毒有关，伊利诺伊州估计每年与冰毒有关的负担为20亿美元。2005年，蒙大拿州65%的人？美国年轻人报告说，冰毒是？非常容易还是比较容易？获得。冰毒吗?人们通常认为，在临时的秘密实验室（家里、公寓、汽车旅馆、储存设施等）生产这种物质非常容易。这些实验室也对执法人员、急救人员和儿童居民构成致命危险。华盛顿州报告称，35%的实验室地点现在或曾经有儿童在场。尽管2005年立法限制销售一种关键的冰毒成分减少了实验室的数量，但现在又死灰复燃了。此外，随着生产商变得越来越老练和灵活，缉毒部门越来越难以发现这些实验室。地方、国家和国际层面的禁毒执法人员需要能够在广泛不同的地点和情况下迅速发现冰毒实验室。如果成功，该项目的成果将使执法人员在发现这些冰毒制造实验室方面有更高的成功率。

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project addresses an urgent law enforcement need for a sensitive, portable, low-cost, laser remote sensor to detect illicit methamphetamine (meth) production labs from a distance. The research objectives are to: 1. Refine, optimize, and package laser subsystem, 2. Design, construct, and optimize receiver subsystem, 3. Integrate laser and receiver subsystems onto compact breadboard and test, 4. Design and construct first-revision prototype. To accomplish these objectives, the team and Montana State University will optimize the performance of the critical high-energy, narrowband, mid-infrared pulsed laser system that was developed under the Phase I effort. The laser subsystem will be miniaturized and packaged for use in the sensor and for direct sales to bootstrap the sensor commercialization. The receiver subsystem will be designed, constructed, and optimized for performance, size, weight, and cost. The laser and receiver subsystems will be integrated and the unit will be field-tested. The first revision prototype will then be designed and constructed, incorporating identified improvements and modifications, and law enforcement customer input. Meth use in our country has reached epidemic levels. It is considered the most addictive illicit drug, can be easily produced with widely available and inexpensive ingredients, and is rapidly becoming more popular with young adults. Almost 1/5 of 2003 federal sentences were meth related and the state of Illinois estimates a $2B/yr meth-related burden. In 2005, 65% of Montana?s young adults reported that meth is ?very or somewhat easy? to obtain. Meth?s abundance is often attributed to the fact that it is alarmingly easy to produce in makeshift clandestine labs (in homes, apartments, motels, storage facilities, etc). These labs also pose lethal hazards to law enforcement, first responders, and children inhabitants. Washington State reported that children are or have been at 35% of the lab sites. Although 2005 legislation restricting the sale of a key meth ingredient reduced the number of labs, there is now resurgence. Moreover, the labs are becoming increasingly difficult for drug enforcement to uncover as the producers become more sophisticated and mobile. Drug enforcement personnel on local, national, and international levels require the ability to detect meth labs rapidly and in widely varying locations and circumstances. If successful law the outcome of the project will enable enforcement personnel to have a higher success rate in detecting these meth manufacturing laboratories.