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Metrology

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Precise Throughput Determination of the PanSTARRS Telescope and the Gigapixel Imager using a Calibrated Silicon Photodiode and a Tunable Laser: Initial Results

December 2, 2010
Author(s)
Christopher W. Stubbs, Peter Doherty, Claire Cramer, Gautham Narayan, Yorke Brown, Ned Henry, Keith R. Lykke, John T. Woodward IV, John L. Tinry
We have used a precision calibrated photodiode as the fundamental metrology reference in order to determine the relative throughput of the PanSTARRS telescope and the Gigapixel imager, from 400 nm to 1050 nm. Our technique uses a tunable laser as a source

MEASUREMENT OF WEIGHTED LED RADIANCE RELATED TO PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SAFETY

December 1, 2010
Author(s)
Tongsheng Mou, Yuqin Zong, Yoshi Ohno
Optical radiation safety of light-emitting diode (LED) products is being addressed in the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard document 62471-2006. Measurement of weighted radiance of LEDs, used to assess the maximal exposure related to

The use of filtered photodetectors for radiance measurement

October 31, 2010
Author(s)
Albert C. Parr, B. Carol Johnson
A methodology for using a calibrated filter radiometer to measure and monitor the spectral radiance of calibration sources is described. An example using a calibration sphere used by NIST for its remote sensing program is presented.

Fast high-resolution frequency agile spectroscopy of laser sources

October 24, 2010
Author(s)
Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Ian R. Coddington, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury
Time-resolved, high-accuracy and high-resolution spectroscopy of frequency-agile cw lasers is critical to realizing their full potential for sensing, but is not possible with conventional spectroscopy methods. We demonstrate a dual comb-based spectrometer

An example crossover experiment for testing new vicarious calibration techniques for satellite ocean color radiometry

October 1, 2010
Author(s)
Kenneth Voss, Scott McLean, Stephanie J. Flora, Michael Feinholz, Mark A. Yarbrough, Charles Trees, Mike Twardowski, Dennis Clark, Marlon Lewis, B. Carol Johnson
Vicarious calibration of ocean color satellites involves accurate surface measurements of water-leaving radiance to update and improve the system calibration of ocean color satellite sensors. An experiment was performed to compare a free-fall technique

Ground-based observatory operations optimized and enhanced by direct atmospheric measurements

July 22, 2010
Author(s)
John T. McGraw, Peter C. Zimmer, Azzam Mansour, Dean C. Hines, Anthony B. Hull, Lisa Rossmann, Daniel C. Zirzow, Steven W. Brown, Gerald T. Fraser, Keith R. Lykke, Allan W. Smith, John T. Woodward IV, Christopher W. Stubbs
Earth's atmosphere represents a turbulent, turbid refractive element for every ground-based telescope. We describe the significantly enhanced and optimized operation of observatories supported by the combination of a lidar and spectrophotometer that allows

Spectroradiometric Calibration of Telescopes using Laser Illumination of Flat Field Screens

July 15, 2010
Author(s)
Steven W. Brown, Claire E. Cramer, Keith R. Lykke, Allan W. Smith, John T. Woodward IV, Peter Doherty, Emilio Falco, Christopher W. Stubbs
It is standard practice at many telescopes to take a series of flat field images prior to an observation run. Typically the flat field consists of a screen mounted inside the telescope dome that is uniformly illuminated with a broadband light source. These

EMPS: Radiation Thermometer Designs

July 1, 2010
Author(s)
Howard Yoon, George P. Eppeldauer
Since the publication of the "Theory and Practice of Radiation Thermometry" in 1988, the designs of radiation thermometers have undergone drastic changes. With the exception of few industries, the disappearing filament pyrometers are not commonly used. The

Space-based photometric precision from ground-based telescopes

July 1, 2010
Author(s)
Peter C. Zimmer, John T. McGraw, Anthony B. Hull, Daniel C. Zirzow, Steven Brown, Claire E. Cramer, Gerald Fraser, Keith R. Lykke, Allan W. Smith, John T. Woodward IV, Christopher W. Stubbs, Mark R. Ackermann, Dean C. Hines
Ground-based telescopes supported by lidar and spectrophotometric auxiliary instrumentation can attain space-based precision for all-sky photometry, with uncertainties dominated by fundamental photon counting statistics. Earth‟s atmosphere is a wavelength-

Infrared Transfer Radiometer for Broadband and Spectral Calibration of Space Chambers

April 23, 2010
Author(s)
Timothy M. Jung, Adriaan C. Carter, Solomon I. Woods, Simon G. Kaplan, Raju V. Datla
The Low-Background Infrared (LBIR) facility at NIST has recently completed construction of an infrared transfer radiometer with an integrated cryogenic Fourier transform spectrometer (Cryo-FTS). This mobile system can be deployed to customer sites for

Linewidth narrowing and Purcell enhancement in photonic crystal cavities on an Er-doped silicon nitride platform

January 25, 2010
Author(s)
Yiyang Gong, Maria Makarova, Selcuk Yerci, Rui Li, Martin Stevens, Burm Baek, Sae Woo Nam, Robert Hadfield, Sander N. Dorenbos, Val Zwiller, Luca Dal Negro, Jelena Vuckovic
Light emission at 1.54 mm from an Er-doped amorphous silicon nitride layer coupled to photonic crystal resonators at cryogenic and room temperatures and under varying optical pump powers has been studied. The results demonstrate that small mode volume

Polarized Optical Scattering Signatures from Biological Materials

January 11, 2010
Author(s)
W. E. Martin, E. Hesse, J. H. Hough, William Sparks, C. S. Cockell, Z. Ulanowski, Thomas Germer, B. Kaye
The polarization of laser light backscattered from biological samples has been measured over the wavelength range 350 to 850nm. Incident circular, linearly polarized, and unpolarized light produces significant spectrally prominent scattered polarizations

Interferometry with a photon-number resolving detector

October 19, 2009
Author(s)
Aaron Pearlman, Christoph Wildfeuer, Jun Chen, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall, Jonathan Dowling
With photon-number resolving detectors, we show compression of interference fringes with in- creasing photon numbers for a Fabry-P erot interferometer. This feature provides a higher precision in determining the position of the interference maxima compared

A Spectroscopic Polarimeter For Detecting Chiral Signatures In Astrobiological Samples

September 11, 2009
Author(s)
Baoliang Wang, William Sparks, Thomas Germer, Andy Leadbetter
We have developed a polarimeter for accurately measuring both the circular and linear polarization components of a light beam from 400 nm to 800 nm. This polarimeter is designed to work at low light levels that are typical in astronomical applications. It

CCPR-S1 Supplementary Comparison for Spectral Radiance in the range of 220 nm to 2500 nm

June 2, 2009
Author(s)
Boris Khlevnoy, Victor Sapritsky, Bernard Rougie, Charles E. Gibson, Howard Yoon, Arnold A. Gaertner, Dieter Taubert, Juergen Hartmann
In 1997, the Consultative Committee for Photometry and Radiometry (CCPR) initiated a supplementary comparison of spectral radiance in the wavelength range from 220 nm to 2500 nm (CCPR S1) using tungsten -strip filament lamps as transfer standards. Five
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