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Conferences

Is Quantum Cryptography Provably Secure?

Author(s)
Anastase Nakassis, Joshua Bienfang, P. Johnson, Alan Mink, D. Rogers, Xiao Tang, Carl J. Williams
Quantum cryptography asserts that shared secrets can be established over public channels in such a way that the total information of an eavesdropper can be made

Link Assessment in an Indoor 802.11 Network

Author(s)
Michael R. Souryal, Luke Klein-Berndt, Leonard E. Miller, Nader Moayeri
This paper presents the empirical results and analysis of a link variability study for an indoor, stationary 802.11 network subject to external interference

Recovering Spheres from 3D Point Data

Author(s)
Christoph J. Witzgall, Geraldine Cheok, Anthony J. Kearsley
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is involved in developing standard protocols for the performance evaluation of 3D imaging systems, which

Focus: Augmented Reality for Standards Development

Author(s)
Matthew L. Aronoff, John V. Messina
The next generation of Product Data Exchange (PDE) standards will require the active participation of domain experts in the standards development process. Due

Migrating Legacy Data in the PCB Industry

Author(s)
Matthew L. Aronoff, John V. Messina
The printed circuit board (PCB) industry has been using the Gerber (RS-274) file format for decades, resulting in a substantial library of legacy designs. One

Atom-based stabilization for laser-pumped atomic clocks

Author(s)
Vladislav Gerginov, V Shah, Svenja A. Knappe, Leo W. Hollberg, John E. Kitching
Progress towards simplification and improvement of the long-term stability of chip-scale atomic clocks is presented. The conventional technique of laser optical

Blackbody radiation shift of the 27Al+ 1S0 - 3P0 transition

Author(s)
Till P. Rosenband, Wayne M. Itano, Piet Schmidt, David Hume, Jeroen Koelemeij, James C. Bergquist, David J. Wineland
The differential polarizability, due to near-infrared light at 1126 nm, of the 27Al + 1S 0 – 3P 0 transition is measured to be {Δ}α = (1.6 ± x 10 -31 m 3, where

Spectroscopy of neutral 174Yb in a one-dimensional optical lattice

Author(s)
C Hoyt, Zeb Barber, Christopher W. Oates, A. V. Taichenachev, V. I. Yudin, Leo W. Hollberg
We report spectroscopy of the 1S 0 - 3P 0 clock transition in neutral 174Yb atoms confined to a one- dimensional optical lattice at the ac Stark shift-canceling

RFID-Assisted Indoor Localization and Communication for First Responders

Author(s)
Leonard E. Miller, Perry F. Wilson, Nelson P. Bryner, Michael H. Francis, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, D W. Stroup, Luke Klein-Berndt
An indoor localization and communication project is described that proposes to use RFID tags, placed in the building beforehand, as navigation waypoints for an