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Metrology

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Accurate, inexpensive testing of handheld lasers for safe use and operation

March 7, 2013
Author(s)
Marla L. Dowell, Joshua A. Hadler
An accurate, inexpensive test bed for measurements of optical power emitted from handheld lasers is described. Our test bed consists of a thermopile detector, bandpass optical filters, an adjustable iris, and self-centering holders for mounting of the

Experimental test of an event-based corpuscular model modification as an alternative to quantum mechanics

February 13, 2013
Author(s)
Giorgio Brida, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Marco Genovese, Alan L. Migdall, Fabrizio Piacentini, Sergey Polyakov, Paola Traina
We present the first experimental test that distinguishes between an event-based corpus- cular model of the interaction of photons with matter and quantum mechanics. The test looks at the interference that results as a single photon passes through a Mach

Optical-Fiber Power Meter Comparison between NIST and KRISS

December 21, 2012
Author(s)
Seungkwan Kim, Keesuk Hong, Dong-Hoon Lee, David J. Livigni, Xiaoyu X. Li, John H. Lehman
We describe the results of a comparison of reference standards between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST-USA) and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS- R.O. Korea). We report optical fiber-based power measurements

Remote sensing of chiral signatures on Mars

November 1, 2012
Author(s)
William Sparks, James H. Hough, Thomas Germer, Frank Robb, Ludmilla Kolokolova
We describe circular polarization as a remote sensing diagnostic of chiral signatures which may be applied to Mars. The remarkable phenomenon of homochirality provides a unique biosignature which can be amenable to remote sensing through circular

Quasianalytical modal approach for computing Casimir interactions in periodic nanostructures

October 3, 2012
Author(s)
Francesco Intravaia, Paul S. Davids, Ricardo Decca, Vladimir Aksyuk, Daniel Lopez, Diego A. Dalvit
We present an almost fully analytical technique for computing Casimir interactions between 1D periodic lamellar gratings based on a modal approach. Our method improves on previous work on Casimir modal approaches for nanostructures by using the exact form

Upper roughness limitations on the TIS/RMS relationship

September 27, 2012
Author(s)
J C. Stover, Sven Schroeder, Thomas Germer
The relationship between total integrated scatter (TIS) and root mean square (rms) roughness was developed in the radar literature and enabled the first use of scatter measurements to monitor optical roughness. This relationship has been used and misused

New Instruments to Calibrate Atmospheric Transmission

September 17, 2012
Author(s)
Claire E. Cramer, Keith R. Lykke, John T. Woodward IV, Peter Zimmer, John T. McGraw, Daniel C. Zirzow
Changing atmospheric transmission accounts for the largest systematic errors limiting photometric measurement precision and accuracy for ground-based telescopes. While considerable resources have been devoted to correcting the effects of the atmosphere on

Near-field Calibration of an Objective Spectrophotometer to NIST Radiometric Standards for the Creation and Maintenance of Standard Stars for Ground- and Space-Based Applications

September 13, 2012
Author(s)
John T. Woodward IV, Keith R. Lykke, Claire E. Cramer, John T. McGraw, Peter Zimmer, Daniel C. Zirzow, Susana Deustua, Dean Hines
NIST-calibrated detectors will be used by the ground-based 100mm diameter Astronomical Extinction Spectrophotometer (AESoP) to calibrate the spectral energy distributions of bright stars to sub-1% per 1nm spectral resolution element accuracy. AESoP will

Measurements of Infrared Spectral Directional Emittance at NIST - A Status Update

September 12, 2012
Author(s)
Boris Wilthan, Leonard Hanssen, Sergey Mekhontsev
Over the past two decades, the Sensor Science Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed extensive capabilities for the characterization of the infrared optical properties of materials and components. These include

Probing coherence in microcavity frequency combs via optical pulse shaping

August 29, 2012
Author(s)
Fahmida Ferdous, Houxun H. Miao, Pei-Hsun Wang, Daniel E. Leaird, Kartik Srinivasan, Lei Chen, Vladimir Aksyuk, Andrew M. Weiner
Recent investigations of microcavity frequency combs based on cascaded four-wave mixing have revealed a link between the evolution of the optical spectrum and the observed temporal coherence. Here we study a silicon nitride microresonator for which the

Measuring Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Length Distributions from Diffusional Trajectories

August 27, 2012
Author(s)
Jason Streit, Sergei M. Bachilo, Anton V. Naumov, Constantine Y. Khripin, Ming Zheng, R B. Weisman
A new method is demonstrated for measuring the length distributions of dispersed single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) samples by analyzing diffusional motions of many individual nanotubes in parallel. In this method, termed Length Analysis by Nanotube

Coupled-cavity ring-down spectroscopy technique

August 6, 2012
Author(s)
Jeremie B. Courtois, Joseph T. Hodges
We present a technique called coupled-cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CC-RDS) for controlling the finesse of an optical resonator. Applications include extending the sensitivity and dynamic range of a cavity-enhanced spectrometer, as well as widening the

A compact and robust method for full Stokes spectropolarimetry

August 1, 2012
Author(s)
William Sparks, Thomas Germer, John MacKenty, Frans Snik
We present an approach to spectropolarimetry which requires neither moving parts nor time dependent modulation, and which o ers the prospect of achieving high sensitivity. The concept, which is one of those generically known as channeled polarimetry, is to

Calibration of an Astrophysical Spectrograph below 1 m/s using a Laser Frequency Comb

June 4, 2012
Author(s)
David F. Phillips, Alexander G. Glenday, Chih-hao Li, Claire E. Cramer, Gabor Furesz, Guoquing Chang, Andrew Benedick, Li-Jin Chen, F X. Kaertner, Sylvain G. Korzennik, Dimitar Sasselov, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Ronald L. Walsworth
We deployed two wavelength calibrators based on laser frequency combs ("astro-combs") at an astronomical observatory. One astro-comb operated over a 100 nm band in the deep red ( 800 nm) and a second operated over a 20 nm band in the blue ( 400 nm). We

Stray light correction algorithm for multi-spectral hyperspectral spectrographs

June 1, 2012
Author(s)
Michael Feinholz, Stephanie J. Flora, Steven W. Brown, Yuqin Zong, Keith R. Lykke, Mark A. Yarbrough, B. Carol Johnson, D. K. Clark
An algorithm is developed to correct a multi-channel fiber-coupled spectrograph for stray or scattered light within the system. The efficacy of the algorithm is evaluated based on a series of validation measurements of sources with different spectral

CfA4: 93 Type Ia Supernova Light Curves from the CfA

May 17, 2012
Author(s)
Malcolm Hicken, Peter Challis, Robert Kirshner, Claire E. Cramer, Armin Rest, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Gaspar Bakos, Perry Berlind, Warren R. Brown, Nelson Caldwell, Michael Calkins, Maria Contreras, Gil Esquerdo, Mark Everett, Emilio Falco, Ted Groner, Matthew J. Holman, Robert Hutchison, Michael Pahre, Wayne Peters, Benjamin Ripman, Timothy Spahr, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Manuel A. Torres, Amali Vaz
We present multi-band photometry of 93 type-Ia supernovae (SN Ia). Data was acquired with the Keplercam instrument between 2006 and 2011 at the F. L. Whipple Observatory of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Our natural system SN
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