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Metrology

Optical/photometry/laser metrology

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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

DIC Challenge 2.0: Developing Images and Guidelines for Evaluating Accuracy and Resolution of 2D Analyses: Focus on the Metrological Efficiency Indicator

January 4, 2022
Author(s)
Philip Reu, EMC Jones, S.S. Fayad, B. Blaysat, E. Toussaint, Mark Iadicola, P. Lava, J Rethore, J. Yang, K. Bhattacharya, L. Yang, D. Deb, C.S.R. Vemulapati, M Klein, E Ando, E Roubin, O. Stamati, C Couture, Alexander Landauer, M. Liu, S Jaminion, T. Siebert, S.N. Olufsen
Background The DIC Challenge 2.0 follows on from the work accomplished in the first Digital Image Correlation (DIC) Challenge Reu et al. (Experimental Mechanics 58(7):1067, 1). The second challenge was required to better quantify the spatial resolution of

Absolute radiation pressure detector using a diamagnetically levitating test mass

October 28, 2021
Author(s)
Anna Vaskuri, Daniel Rahn, Paul A. Williams, John H. Lehman
We have developed an absolute radiometer to measure laser power by means of radiation pressure in a closed control-loop configuration using diamagnetically levitated pyrolytic graphite as the soft spring and gravity as a contactless restoring force. Our

Multiphoton quantum metrology with neither pre- nor post-selected measurements

October 21, 2021
Author(s)
Chenglong You, Mingyuan Hong, Peter Bierhorst, Adriana Lita, Scott Glancy, Steven Kolthammer, Emanuel Knill, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin, Omar Magana-Loaiza, Thomas Gerrits
The quantum statistical fluctuations of the electromagnetic field establish fundamental limits on the sensitivity of optical measurements. This fundamental limit, known as the shot-noise limit, imposes constraints on classical technologies, which can be
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