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Metrology

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High accuracy, high dynamic range optomechanical accelerometry enabled by dual comb spectroscopy

September 20, 2023
Author(s)
David Long, Jasper Stroud, Benjamin Reschovsky, Yiliang Bao, Feng Zhou, Thomas W. LeBrun, David Plusquellic, Jason Gorman, Sean Bresler
Cavity optomechanical sensors offer exceptional sensitivity but interrogating the cavity motion with high accuracy and dynamic range has proven to be challenging. Here we employ a dual optical frequency comb spectrometer to readout a cavity optomechanical

Comparison of the detection efficiency calibration of a single-photon avalanche detector between NIST and PTB

September 12, 2023
Author(s)
Hristina Georgieva, Thomas Gerrits, Helmuth Hofer, Anouar Rahmouni, Oliver T. Slattery, Marco Lopez, Joshua Bienfang, Alan Migdall, Stefan Kueck
The detection efficiency of a commercial single-photon avalanche detector (SPAD) has been independently determined at two national metrology institutes, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - USA and the Physikalisch-Technische

High-Power Radiation-Pressure-based Laser Metrology Using an Electrostatic Force Balance

September 11, 2023
Author(s)
Brian Simonds, Kyle Rogers, Sven Schulze, David Newell, Gordon Shaw, John Lehman, Paul A. Williams
A primary standard electrostatic force balance has been integrated into a multiple-reflection radiation pressure-based laser power meter capable of measuring kilowatts of optical power. We present optical power data at 0.1 kW, 1 kW, 2 kW, and 5 kW with the

Laser Power Accuracy of Additive Manufacturing Systems - A Round Robin Study

September 11, 2023
Author(s)
Brian Simonds, Kyle Rogers, Paul A. Williams
High power lasers are at the core of metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems and the accurate delivery of laser energy is critical to part performance. We have performed a round robin style survey of U.S. AM equipment across industry, academia, and

Dual-Comb Spectroscopy of Carbon Dioxide and Methane Across a 14.5 km Long Outdoor Path

September 1, 2023
Author(s)
Fabrizio Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, Brian Washburn, Nathan Malarich, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, Ian Coddington, Nathan Newbury, Kevin Cossel
Greenhouse-gas dual-comb spectroscopy is extended to a city-scale 14.5-km path length using remote receiver and data acquisition. This configuration enables lower link losses and longer path lengths compared to folded paths with a remote retroreflector

Studies of spatial uniformity and jitter in SiC UV SPADs

June 15, 2023
Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Edwin J. Heilweil, Anand Sampath, Gregory Garrett, Jonathan Shuster, Jeremy Smith, Michael Derenge, Daniel Habersat, Reza Gandhi, Sergei Dolinsky, Enrico Bellotti, michael wrabeck
Ultraviolet single-photon avalanche detectors (UV-SPAD) that are low cost, size, weight, and power as well as resilient to shock, high temperatures and stray magnetic fields have a number of applications. SiC is attractive for UV SPADs as it is inherently

Experimental demonstration of local area entanglement distribution between two distant nodes, coexisting with classical synchronization

May 12, 2023
Author(s)
Anouar Rahmouni, Paulina Kuo, Yicheng Shi, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Nijil Lal Cheriya Koyyottummal, Ivan Burenkov, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Mheni Merzouki, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver T. Slattery, Thomas Gerrits
We successfully demonstrated polarization entanglement distribution and classical time synchronization using a high-accuracy precision time protocol between two quantum nodes located 250 meters apart using a single fiber simultaneously carrying both

Sub-200 ps Quantum Network Node Synchronization over a 128 km Link White Rabbit Architecture

May 12, 2023
Author(s)
Wayne McKenzie, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Mark Morris, Gerald Baumgartner, Anouar Rahmouni, Paulina Kuo, Oliver T. Slattery, Bruce Crabill, Mheni Merzouki, Abdella Battou, Thomas Gerrits
We show sub-200 ps synchronization between quantum networks nodes that are separated by two 64 km deployed fiber links, providing a 128 km link architecture. The architecture employs one grandmaster and two boundary White Rabbit system clocks and shows

Reflective deep-ultraviolet Fourier ptychographic microscopy for nanoscale imaging

April 29, 2023
Author(s)
Kwanseob Park, Yoon Sung Bae, Sang-Soo Choi, Martin Sohn
Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) that has high space-bandwidth-product and phase imaging capability requires significant resolution enhancement in reflection mode for imaging of nanoscale semiconductor devices. A direct way to nanoscale resolution is

Optical-cavity-based primary sound standard

February 1, 2023
Author(s)
Akobuije Chijioke, Richard A. Allen, Steven E. Fick, David Long, Benjamin Reschovsky, Jared Strait, Randall P. Wagner
We propose an optical sound standard in which the sound pressure is directly measured by using an optical cavity to observe the induced change in the refractive index of air. In this method, an optical cavity is coupled with an acoustic cavity, with the

Radiation Pressure-based Laser Metrology Implementing an Electrostatic Force Balance

December 12, 2022
Author(s)
Brian Simonds, Kyle Rogers, Sven Schulze, David Newell, Gordon Shaw, Paul A. Williams, John Lehman
A primary standard force sensor and laser power meter are combined to achieve laser power traceability to Planck's constant by means of radiation pressure. We assess the statistical uncertainty for measurements of 1 kW, 2 kW, and 5 kW using an

Ultrafast perturbation of magnetic domains by optical pumping in a ferromagnetic multilayer

October 19, 2022
Author(s)
Dmitriy Zusin, Ezio E. Iacocca, Loic Le Guyader, Alexander H. Reid, William Schlotter, TianMin Liu, Daniel Higley, Giacomo Coslovich, Scott F. Wandel, Phoebe Tengdin, Sheena K. Patel, Anatoly Shabalin, Nelson Hua, Stjepan Hrkac, Hans Nembach, Justin Shaw, Sergio Montoya, Adam Blonsky, Christian Gentry, Mark Hoefer, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, Eric E. Fullerton, Oleg Shpyrko, Hermann Durr, Thomas J. Silva
Ultrafast optical pumping of spatially nonuniform magnetic textures is known to induce far-from-equilibrium spin transport effects. Here, we use ultrafast x-ray diffraction with unprecedented dynamic range to study the laser-induced dynamics of labyrinth

Hyperspectral photon-counting optical time domain reflectometry

October 4, 2022
Author(s)
Anouar Rahmouni, Samprity Saha, Oliver T. Slattery, Thomas Gerrits
Optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) is one of the most used techniques for nondestructive characterization of optical fiber links. Although conventional OTDR exhibits good performance in classical network applications, photoncounting OTDR (ν-OTDR)

Characterization of Surface Texture-Measuring Optical Microscopes using a Binary Pseudo-Random Array Standard

October 3, 2022
Author(s)
Ulf Griesmann, Keiko Munechika, Thomas Renegar, Xiaoyu Zheng, Johannes Soons, Weilun Chao, Ian Lacey, Carlos Pina-Hernandez, Peter Takacs, Valeriy Yashchuk, Thomas Germer
Accurate topography measurements of engineered surfaces over a wide range of spatial frequencies are required in many applications. The instrument transfer function (ITF) of the microscope used to characterize the surface topography must be taken into

SerialTrack: ScalE and Rotation Invariant Augmented Lagrangian Particle Tracking

September 19, 2022
Author(s)
Jin Yang, Yue Yin, Alexander Landauer, Selda Buyukozturk, Jing Zhang, Luke Summey, Alexander McGhee, Matthew Fu, John Dabiri, Christian Franck
We present a new particle tracking algorithm to accurately resolve large deformation and rotational motion fields, which takes advantage of both local and global particle tracking algorithms. We call this method the ScalE and Rotation Invariant Augmented

Are additive manufacturing systems accurately delivering laser power?

September 12, 2022
Author(s)
Brian Simonds, Kyle Rogers, Paul A. Williams
At the core of most metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems is a high-power (100-1000 W) laser. The delivered light energy drives the entire AM process by determining the melt volume and maximum temperature, which ultimately dictates solidification and
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