Patent ID: 8582104

Claim:
An agent detection system, comprising: a resonator device configured to: receive an agent; transmit light received from a light source, the transmitted light having a known intensity in the absence of the received agent and the transmitted light having an altered intensity in the presence of the received agent, the altered intensity being less than the known intensity; a lens positioned between the resonator device and a detector array, the lens configured to focus the transmitted light onto one or more detectors of the detector array, the one or more detectors of the detector array operable to generate a signal corresponding to the transmitted light, the signal generated by the one or more detectors of the detector array comprising: a known signal when the transmitted light has the known intensity; and an altered signal when the transmitted light has the altered intensity; and a processing system operable to: determine whether the agent is present based on the signal generated by the one or more detectors of the detector array by: accessing the altered signal generated by the detector array; and determining that the altered signal differs from the known signal; and identify the agent as one of a number of known agents by: determining an amount of light absorbed by the agent by comparing the altered signal with the known signal; and comparing the determined amount of light absorbed with absorption characteristics of the number of known agents.