Over 200 referred journal articles, application notes & white papers using DRS Daylight Solutions’ QCL-based technologies

Over the past few years, quantum cascade lasers (QCL) have evolved from scientific curiosities to enablers of commercial instruments, providing sensing, detection, and molecular spectroscopy. Here you’ll find discussions ranging from the basic physics of QCL core technology to system level applications. Topics include stand-off explosive detection, distributed sensor networks, trace gas analysis, ring resonators and waveguides, as well as in vitro glucose detection, and mid-IR imaging. Feel free to review and download information of interest from this growing pool of resources.

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Scientific Research Paper Title Authors Journal Application Product Year
Detection of disease-associated VOC signatures with laser-based photoacoustic spectroscopy (LPAS) Graunke, T., Scholz, T., Pieniak, M. et al. Sci Rep 16, 29252 (2026) doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-68298-9 Sensors, Analyzers & Spectrometers, Biomedical MIRcat 2026
Innovative Infrared Spectroscopic Technologies for the Prediction of Deoxynivalenol in Wheat Polina Fomina; Antoni Femenias; Miriam Aledda; Valeria Tafintseva; Stephan Freitag; Michael Sulyok; Achim Kohler; Rudolf Krska; Boris Mizaikoff ACS Food Sci. Technol. /doi.org/10.1021/acsfoodscitech.4c00730 Sensors, Analyzers & Spectrometers MIRcat 2026
Small microplastics and microfibers found in high concentrations around Kantamanto, the world’s largest secondhand textile market in Accra, Ghana: A citizen science study Dimitri D. Deheyn , Joe Ayesu , The Or Foundation, Branson Skinner Environmental Advances/ doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2026.100711 Microplastics Spero 2026
Generation of continuous-wave 1–11 THz radiation with intersubband polaritonic metasurfaces J. H. Krakofsky , M. Rieder , S. Stich, S. Schmid, I. Lubianskii, G. Böhm, A. Köninger & M. A. Belkin Nature Photonics / doi.org/10.1038/s41566-026-01889-0 QCL Technology, Terahertz MIRcat 2026
Higher-order organization 1 of bacterial cords and an amyloid-like 2 matrix define the Mycobacterium tuberculosis biofilm Bei Shi Lee, Matthias Godejohann, Richa Mishra, Clement Bousquet, Flavia Gurtler, Abigail J. Deloria, Mengyang Liu, Rainer Leitgeb, Wolfgang Drexler, Gregor L. Weiss, Vivek V. Thacker, Michael Berney, and Richard Haindl bioRXiv/ doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.07.687260 Chemical Imaging, Biomedical Spero 2026
An IR-transparent EWOD digital microfluidic platform for real-time vibrational spectroscopic monitoring and in situ process imaging Sebastian Fehse, Ben Ungermann, Anish Das, Detlev Belder Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical / doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2026.139702 Chemical Imaging, Sensors, Analyzers & Spectrometers, Microfluidics Spero 2026
Label-free Aβ plaque detection in Alzheimer’s disease brain tissue using infrared microscopy and neural networks Dajana Müller, Dominik Röhr, Baayla D.C. Boon, Maximilian Wulf, Thomas Arto, Jeroen J.M. Hoozemans, Katrin Marcus, Annemieke J.M. Rozemuller, Frederik Großerueschkamp, Axel Mosig, Klaus Gerwert Heliyon 11 (2025) e42111 Tissue Analysis Spero 2025
Mid-Infrared Photothermal Spectroscopy for the Detection of Caffeine in Beverages Giovanna Ricchiuti, Lisa Riedlsperger, Alicja Dabrowska, Erwin Rosenberg, Liam O'Faolain and Bernhard Lendl Sensors / DOI: 10.3390/s24061974 Sensors, Analyzers & Spectrometers MIRcat 2024
Setup and Analysis of a Mid-Infrared Stand-Off System to Detect Traces of Explosives on Fabrics Andrea Teuber, Giada Caniglia, Michael Wild, Matthias Godejohann, Christine Kranz, and Boris Mizaikoff ACS Sensors / DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.2c01841 Sensors, Analyzers & Spectrometers MIRcat 2023
Mid-IR quantum cascade laser spectroscopy to resolve lipid dynamics during the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin Paul Stritt, Michael Jawurek, Karin Hauser J Chem Phys / DOI: 10.1063/5.0139808. Sensors, Analyzers & Spectrometers, Biomedical MIRcat 2023

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