Nanophotonics

News and Updates

cryogenically cooled laser microresonator frequency comb

Comb on a Chip: New Design for ‘Optical Ruler’ Could Revolutionize Clocks, Telescopes, Telecommunications

June 22, 2020

Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great precision, a device known as a laser frequency comb, with its

What a Switch! NIST-Led Team Develops Tiny Low-Energy Device to Rapidly Reroute Light in Computer Chips

November 14, 2019

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have developed an optical switch that routes light from one

Sculpting Super-Fast Light Pulses: NIST Nanopillars Shape Light Precisely for Practical Applications

May 2, 2019

Imagine being able to shape a pulse of light in any conceivable manner—compressing it, stretching it, splitting it in two, changing its intensity or altering

Projects and Programs

PTIR combines the spatial resolution of AFM with the specificity of absorption spectroscopy

Nano-Chemical Imaging and -Spectroscopy (IR, nIR, VIS)

Ongoing

Conventional techniques for analyzing chemical composition, such as infrared (IR) microscopy often miss critically important nanoscale details. To overcome this

Frequency Conversion Interfaces for Photonic Quantum Systems

Ongoing

Optical frequency conversion, in which the color of light is changed, is a process that has numerous applications in physics and technology. For example, green

Modeling and Simulation of Nanofabrication (Archived)

Most manufacturing has historically been based on top-down fabrication and assembly. With rapid advances in nanotechnology, there is increasing interest in

Photonic Dosimetry

Ongoing

As part of the NIST on a Chip program, the Photonic Dosimetry project is developing in-situ sub-micrometer ionizing-radiation dosimetry and calorimetry leading

Publications

Charge Density Wave Activated Excitons in MoSe2

January 5, 2022

Author(s)

Jaydeep Joshi, Benedikt Scharf, Igor Mazin, Sergiy Krylyuk, Daniel Campbell, Albert Davydov, Johnpierre Paglione, Igor Zutic, Patrick Vora

Layered materials enable the assembly of a new class of heterostructures where lattice-matching is no longer a requirement. Interfaces in these heterostructures

Modification of the optical properties of molecular chains upon coupling to adatoms

December 13, 2021

Author(s)

Garnett W. Bryant, Marvin Muller, Miriam Kosik, Marta Pelc, Karolina Slowik, Andres Ayuela, Carsten Rockstuhl

Adsorbed atoms (adatoms) coupled to the matrix of solid state host materials as impurities can signi cantly modify their properties. Especially in low

Role of quantum technologies in reshaping the future of temperature metrology

December 1, 2021

Author(s)

Zeeshan Ahmed

Today's resistance thermometers can routinely measure temperatures with uncertainties of 10 mK to 100 mK over multiple decades of temperatures across almost all

Impact of the precursor gas ratio on dispersion engineering of broadband silicon nitride microresonator frequency combs

November 29, 2021

Author(s)

Gregory Moille, Daron Westly, Gregory Simelgor, Kartik Srinivasan

Microresonator frequency combs, or microcombs, have gained wide appeal for their rich nonlinear physics and wide range of applications. Stoichiometric silicon

Tools and Instruments

Sample Preparation and Metrology Tools

Read about our sample preparation and metrology tools.

Awards

Kartik Srinivasan Elected OSA Fellow

Kartik Srinivasan of NIST’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) was elected Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA). Dr