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Metrology

Optical/photometry/laser metrology

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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

Unique collaboration produces LM-92 UV LED testing standard

July 27, 2022
Author(s)
C Cameron Miller, Jeff Hulett, Troy Cowan
JEFF HULETT, CAMERON MILLER, and TROY COWAN detail the importance of cross-organization participation in UV standards development and how those joint efforts will further market penetration and performance of GUV devices.

QUASAR-QUAsi-Stationary Absolute Radiance Mission

July 22, 2022
Author(s)
Eliad Peretz, Peter Plavchan, Piotr Pachowicz, Jamie Tayar, Gerard van Belle, Greg Aldering, Angelle Tanner, Justin Albert, Daniel Huber, Leonard Hanssen, Brian Alberding, Joseph P. Rice, Steven West, John Mather, Allison Youngblood, Tabetha Boyajian, Brian Stalder, Jonathan Gagne, Susana Deustua, Kayla Carmical, Andrew Lewis
This paper describes the scientific and developmental aspects behind the QUAsi-Stationary Absolute Radiance (QUASAR) mission study. The scientific motivation on which the mission is built is established, including the absolute flux calibration of standard

NIST Traveling Tunable Laser Projector (TTLP) for UV-Blue Disinfection Dose Determinations

June 21, 2022
Author(s)
Thomas C. Larason, Steven Grantham, Clarence Zarobila, Yuqin Zong, C Cameron Miller, Michael Schuit, Brian Holland, Stewart Wood, Melissa Krause
As COVID-19 was overtaking the world in the spring of 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology began collaborating with the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center to study the inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 to different UV and

Generalized Electrical Substitution Methods and Detectors for Absolute Optical Power Measurements

June 17, 2022
Author(s)
Solomon I. Woods, Jorge Neira, James E. Proctor, Joseph P. Rice, Nathan Tomlin, Malcolm White, Michelle Stephens, John H. Lehman
We have developed generalized methods for electrical substitution optical measurements, as well as cryogenic detectors which can be used to implement them. The new methods enable measurement of arbitrary periodic waveforms by an electrical substitution

Final report on the CCPR Key Comparison CCPR-K3.2014 Luminous Intensity

June 16, 2022
Author(s)
C Cameron Miller, Yuqin Zong, Arnold Gaertner, Eric Cote, Joaquin Campos, Gael Obein, Peter Blattner, Reto Scafer, Liu Hui, Jiang Xiaomei, Errol Atkinson, Erik Thorvaldson, Kenichi Kinoshita, Rheinhardt Sieberhagen, Irma Rabe, Teresa Goodman, Barry Scott, Armin Sperling, Detlef Lindner, Boris KHlevnoy, Evgeniy Ivashin
The metrological equivalence of national measurement standards in the field of photometry and radiometry is determined by a set of key comparisons chosen and organized by the Consultative Committee of Photometry and Radiometry (CCPR) of the Comité

Intrinsically accurate sensing with an optomechanical accelerometer

May 18, 2022
Author(s)
Benjamin Reschovsky, David Long, Feng Zhou, Yiliang Bao, Richard A. Allen, Jason J. Gorman, Thomas W. LeBrun
We demonstrate a microfabricated optomechanical accelerometer that is capable of percent-level accuracy without external calibration. To achieve this capability, we use a mechanical model of the device behavior that can be characterized by the thermal

A self-validated detector for characterization of quantum network components

May 7, 2022
Author(s)
Anouar Rahmouni, Thomas Gerrits, Alan Migdall, Oliver T. Slattery, Ping-Shine Shaw, Joseph P. Rice
We are developing a nearly polarization-independent, low-cost optical trap detector between 1000 nm and 1550 nm for optical power measurements. A NIST-traceable optical power calibration of this trap detector showed a promising result.

White Rabbit-assisted quantum network node synchronization with quantum channel coexistence

May 7, 2022
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Ivan Burenkov, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Anouar Rahmouni, DJ Anand, FNU Hala, Oliver T. Slattery, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov
We show that the Ethernet-based time transfer protocol 'White Rabbit' can synchronize two distant quantum-networked nodes to within 4 ps, enabling HOM interference at >90 % visibility using 17.6 ps FWHM single-photons coexisting with White Rabbit.

Thermal Noise-Limited Laser Stabilization to an 8 mL Volume Fabry-Perot Reference Cavity with Microfabricated Mirrors

March 29, 2022
Author(s)
Charles McLemore, Naijun Jin, Megan Kelleher, James Hendrie, David Mason, Yizhi Luo, Dahyeon Lee, Peter Rakich, Scott Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan
Lasers stabilized to vacuum-gap Fabry-Perot optical reference cavities display extraordinarily low noise and high stability, with linewidths much less than 1 Hz. These lasers can expand into new applications and ubiquitous use with the development of

Disinfection of Respirators with Ultraviolet Radiation

March 25, 2022
Author(s)
Dianne L. Poster, Matthew Hardwick, C Cameron Miller, Michael A. Riley, W. W. Shanaka I. Rodrigo, Andras E. Vladar, John D. Wright, Christopher D. Zangmeister, Clarence Zarobila, Jeremy Starkweather, John Wynne, Jason Yilzarde
Data for interpreting virus inactivation on N95 face filtering respirators (FFRs) by ultraviolet (UV) radiation are important in developing UV strategies for N95 FFR disinfection and reuse for any situation, whether it be everyday practices, contingency

Models for an Ultraviolet-C Research and Development Consortium

March 25, 2022
Author(s)
Dianne L. Poster, C Cameron Miller, Yaw S. Obeng, John J. Kasianowicz, Michael T. Postek, Norman Horn, Troy Cowan, Richard Martinello
The development of an international, precompetitive, collaborative, ultraviolet (UV) research consortium is discussed as an opportunity to lay the groundwork for a new UV commercial industry and the supply chain to support this industry. History has

Femtometer-amplitude imaging of coherent super high frequency vibrations in micromechanical resonators

February 4, 2022
Author(s)
Lei Shao, Vikrant Gokhale, Bo Peng, Peng-Hui Song, Jingjie Cheng, Justin Kuo, Amit Lal, Wen-Ming Zhang, Jason Gorman
The ability to measure femtometer scale vibrations at microwave frequencies is important in applications as diverse as ultracoherent resonators for 5G wireless communications, ultrasensitive detectors for mass and force, and acoustic resonators for quantum

Measurement sensitivity of DUV scatterfield microscopy parameterized with partial coherence for duty ratio-varied periodic nanofeatures

February 1, 2022
Author(s)
Taekyung Kim, Eikhyun Cho, Yoon Sung Bae, Sang-Soo Choi, Bryan Barnes, Richard M. Silver, Martin Sohn
The deep ultraviolet (DUV) scatterfield imaging microscopy technique enables accurate dimensional measurements of periodic nanostructures with sub-nanometer sensitivity to support semiconductor device manufacturing. A parametric sensitivity analysis for

Quantitative Determination of Cell Viability Using Absorbance Microscopy

January 19, 2022
Author(s)
Greta Babakhanova, Stephen Zimmerman, Laura Pierce, Sumona Sarkar, Nicholas Schaub, Carl Simon Jr.
Cell viability is an essential measurement for cell therapy products. One of the most common tests is Trypan blue (TB) dye exclusion where blue-stained cells are counted via imaging. Typically, live and dead cells are counted based on pixel intensities of
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