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Groundbreaking laser tech enables faster, safer landmine detection

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Vyacheslav Aranchuk has been working on the Laser Multi-Beam Differential Interferometric Sensor (LAMBDIS), for more than a decade now.

He received a patent for it back in 2019 while at the university's National Center for Physical Acoustics ( NCPA ), when he demonstrated how it can be mounted to a moving vehicle and quickly detect buried landmines up to 65 ft ( ~20 m) away.

The team's updated laser tech, presented at the Optica conference in Japan last month , forms a vibration map of the ground in near real-time.