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Microcombs – chip-scale devices that generate and measure frequencies of light with exquisite accuracy – have transformed timekeeping and boosted optical
Today's electronics have reached a point where sheer computation power has combined form and function as the key driver of large consumer markets. The demand for portable and pervasive electronics with greater functionality promises significant changes over the next decades in how society interacts
Erbium mode-locked fiber lasers are a mature technology that provide a means to build robust optical frequency combs centered near 1550 nm. One research focus of our group is to extend the optical bandwidth of Er fiber-based combs into the near- to mid-infrared wavelength region of 1000 to 5000 nm
NIST uses spectrophotometric techniques to measure the optical properties of materials for dissemination of national measurement scales to its stakeholders and advancing the development of standards, measurement methods, and modeling capabilities. The beneficiaries of these activities include the
Cory Nunn, Daniel Jones, Todd Pittman, Brian Kirby
Recent work by Mičuda et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett 109, 180503 (2012)] suggests that pairing noiseless amplification with noiseless attenuation can conditionally
Paul Szypryt, Douglas Bennett, Ian Fogarty Florang, Joseph Fowler, Jiansong Gao, Andrea Giachero, Ruslan Hummatov, Adriana Lita, John Mates, Sae Woo Nam, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Jordan Wheeler
Single-photon detectors based on the superconducting transition-edge sensor are used in a number of visible to near-infrared applications, particularly for
We synthesized and studied color centers on silicon-on-insulator wafers with photoluminescence mapping and spectroscopy, and fabricated silicon W- and G- color
We present an \it ab initio} method for computing vibro-polariton and phonon-polariton spectra of molecules and solids coupled to the photon modes of optical
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
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 Reference Transmittance Spectrophotometer (RTS) is the national reference instrument for regular spectral transmittance measurements of non-fluorescent
ROSI performs specular and bidirectional reflectance measurements of spectrally neutral, non-fluorescent specular and diffuse samples at room temperature. It
The NIST/DARPA EUV Reflectometry facility began in the late 1980's to make measurements of the reflectivity of EUV multilayer optics for lithography. Since then
The extended range monochromator is based on a unique design that allows illumination of the gratings in both grazing and normal incidence, thus covering the