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The Rising Stars Collection features notable APL papers by emerging investigators. These papers were identified by the editors and Rising Stars Award selection committee as particularly outstanding among the many excellent candidates for the award...
The prize committee selected the winners “for the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics.”
The High Amplification Laser pressure Optic (HALO) was developed by NIST to measure kilo-watts of laser power with best-in-class accuracy. Here, optical power is determined by measuring the force a laser beam exerts when it is reflected by the HALO’s...