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It’s cool to be small. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have miniaturized the optical components required to cool atoms
As computer chips and other electronic devices continue to shrink in size, they become ever more sensitive to contamination. However, detecting the nanoscale
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a microchip technology that can convert
This project aims to develop rigorous measurements and methodology needed for determining optical and electrical properties of advanced materials that might be
SOSI (Single integrating sphere Optical Scattering Instrument) is a new facility for measuring the hemispherical reflectance and transmittance of materials
The coherent control of quantum-mechanical systems holds promise for revolutionizing technologies including computing, simulation, secure communication and
Nano and atomic scale theory of the electronic, optical and mechanical properties of ultrasmall structures, such as semiconductor quantum dots and dopants in Si
Sonia M. Buckley, Alexander N. Tait, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Adam N. McCaughan, Saeed Khan, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Jeffrey M. Shainline
We show several techniques for using integrated-photonic waveguide structures to simultaneously characterize multiple waveguide-integrated superconducting
After we replaced the argon mini-arc with a laser-driven light source in the Ultraviolet Spectral Comparator Facility at NIST, we realized that the optical
David Long, Benjamin J. Reschovsky, Feng Zhou, Yiliang Bao, Thomas W. LeBrun, Jason J. Gorman
Electro-optic frequency combs were employed to rapidly interrogate an optomechanical sensor, demonstrating spectral resolution substantially exceeding that
Zachary H. Levine, Edward Garboczi, Adele Peskin, Axel A. Ekman, Elisabeth Mansfield, Jason Holm
An algorithm for partially coherent x-ray computed tomography including Fresnel diffraction is developed and applied to an optical fiber. The computing time is
An electron hologram is a fringe modulated image containing the amplitude and phase information of an electron transparent object. The HolograFREE routines
CLIP is an analysis program for fluorescence lifetime images. It provides the user with the ability to fit or calculate the phasor plots for lifetime decays
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
SCATMECH is an object-oriented C++ class library developed to distribute models for light scattering applications. Included in the library are models for
The NIST spectral power responsivity scale is based on cryogenic electrical substitution radiometers (ESRs) , which are considered the highest accuracy primary
Beamline 5 of the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility is a diagnostics end-station used to determine the transverse size of the stored electron beam. The
At beamline 10 a new experimental end-station for synchrotron radiation-based Fourier-transform infrared spectromicroscopy is under development. Currently the
A Perkin-Elmer Lambda 1050 spectrophotometer is used to complement the reference reflectance and transmittance instruments. It performs this function by