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Matthew Hummon (Fed)

Matt Hummon is a Physicist in the Atomic Devices and Instrumentation group in the Time & Frequency Division at NIST. His current research interests focus on the integration of photonic structures with miniature atomic systems for compact, fieldable quantum devices and sensors.

Awards

Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 2021

Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award, The Optical Society (OSA), 2020

Publications

Atomic flux circuits

Author(s)
Douglas Bopp, Ellyse Taylor, Khoa Le, Susan Schima, Matthew Hummon, John Kitching
Atomic vapors are a crucial platform for precision metrology but in their simplest implementation, a thermal vapor, the intrinsic optical resonances are

Architecture for the photonic integration of an optical atomic clock

Author(s)
Zachary L. Newman, Vincent N. Maurice, Tara E. Drake, Jordan R. Stone, Travis Briles, Daryl T. Spencer II, Connor D. Fredrick, Qing Li, Daron A. Westly, Bojan R. Ilic, B. Shen, M.-G Suh, K. Y. Yang, C Johnson, D.M. S. Johnson, Leo Hollberg, K. Vahala, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Scott A. Diddams, John E. Kitching, Scott B. Papp, Matthew T. Hummon
Optical atomic clocks, which rely on high-frequency, narrow-line optical transitions to stabilize a clock laser, outperform their microwave counterparts by

Photonic chip for laser stabilization to an atomic vapor at a precision of $10^{-11}$

Author(s)
Matthew T. Hummon, Songbai Kang, Douglas G. Bopp, Qing Li, Daron A. Westly, Sangsik Kim, Connor D. Fredrick, Scott A. Diddams, Kartik A. Srinivasan, John E. Kitching
We perform precision spectroscopy of rubidium confined in a micro-machined, 27~mm$^3$ volume, vapor cell using a collimated free space 120~$\bm{\mu}$m diameter
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Created October 9, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022