Optical / photometry / laser metrology

News and Updates

As Good as it Gets: NIST Develops Its Fourth Generation Wire Micrometer that Rivals Best in the World

March 11, 2021

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a dramatically improved laser-based instrument that measures the

A Better Way to Measure Acceleration

March 8, 2021

You’re going at the speed limit down a two-lane road when a car barrels out of a driveway on your right. You slam on the brakes, and within a fraction of a

What Laser Color Do You Like?

October 13, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a microchip technology that can convert

Events

19th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD19)

Mon, Jul 19 - Thu, Jul 29 2021

The 19th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD19) is an opportunity for researchers from around the

Projects and Programs

Optical Radiation Metrology and Standard Radiometers

Radiometric, radiance temperature, photometric, and color scales have been realized based on the spectral responsivity of standard detectors and radiometers

Normalized Spectra for 3 types of Night Vision Goggles, a blackbody, and an IR LED

Night Vision Goggle Gain Calibration

NIST cooperates with the three services (Air Force, Navy, and Army) to realize a uniform night vision goggle (NVG) calibration system with low measurement

Optical Networking of Superconducting Quantum Nodes with Transduction Devices

A collaborative team working to establish the science and technology of networks for superconducting quantum computers by demonstrating the world’s first

Optical and Optoelectronic Materials Characterization

This project aims to develop rigorous measurements and methodology needed for determining optical and electrical properties of advanced materials that might be

Software

JB95 Spectral fitting program

February 19, 2016

A graphical user interface program, JB95, based on a Windows 95© API platform has been written in the C programming language to aid in the analysis of complex

FPGA-based Digital Control Box for Phase Stabilization of a Frequency Comb

October 1, 2015

This page provides information on firmware/software used at NIST to phase-lock a frequency comb. The firmware/software operates with hardware that was developed

Simple and Inexpensive FPGA-based Fast Multichannel Acquisition Board

This project allows investigators to build their own data acquisition instruments to collect and statistically process data in real time, then send the results

Modeled integrated scatter tool (MIST)

The MIST program has been developed to provide users with a general application to model an integrated scattering system. The program performs an integration of