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The ability to transmit and manipulate the smallest unit of light, the photon, with minimal loss, plays a pivotal role in optical communications as well as
This project aims to develop rigorous measurements and methodology needed for determining optical and electrical properties of advanced materials that might be
Nano and atomic scale theory of the electronic, optical and mechanical properties of ultrasmall structures, such as semiconductor quantum dots and dopants in Si
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
Accurate measurements of the optical properties of materials in the infrared spectral range play an increasingly important role in the aerospace and defense
Drew Rotunno, Nik Prajapati, Samuel Berweger, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, MATTHEW SIMONS, chris holloway, Amy Robinson
Highly-excited Rydberg atoms have been used for International System of Unit (SI)-traceable radio-frequency (RF) electric field and power measurements, but are
Catherine Cooksey, Daniel Poitras, Luke Sandilands, Penghui Ma, Stacey Lee, Michael Jacobson
Participants to the 2022 Manufacturing Contest were challenged to fabricate an optical filter with a specified stepped transmittance spanning three orders of
Amilson R. Fritsch, Shangjie Guo, Sophia Koh, Ian Spielman, Justyna Zwolak
We establish a dataset of over 1.6 x 10^4 experimental images of Bose–Einstein condensates containing solitonic excitations to enable machine learning (ML) for
Joseph Chue-Sang, Maritoni Litorja, Aaron Goldfain, Thomas A. Germer
Significance: Mueller matrix polarimetry (MMP) and spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) are wide-field optical imaging modalities that differentiate tissue
SCATMECH is an object-oriented C++ class library developed to distribute models for light scattering applications. Included in the library are models for
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
A Perkin-Elmer Lambda 1050 spectrophotometer is used to complement the reference reflectance and transmittance instruments. It performs this function by
ROSI performs specular and bidirectional reflectance measurements of spectrally neutral, non-fluorescent specular and diffuse samples at room temperature. It
The reference integrating sphere performs directional-hemispherical reflectance measurements of spectrally neutral, non-fluorescent samples at room temperature
The Reference Transmittance Spectrophotometer (RTS) is the national reference instrument for regular spectral transmittance measurements of non-fluorescent