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Metrology

Optical/photometry/laser metrology

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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

Quantum-Based Photonic Sensors for Pressure, Vacuum, and Temperature Measurements: A Vison of the Future with NIST on a Chip

September 17, 2021
Author(s)
Jay H. Hendricks, Zeeshan Ahmed, Daniel Barker, Kevin O. Douglass, Stephen Eckel, James A. Fedchak, Nikolai Klimov, Jacob Edmond Ricker, Julia Scherschligt
The NIST on a Chip (NOAC) program's central idea is the idea that measurement technology can be developed to enable metrology to be performed "outside the National Metrology Institute" by the crea-tion of deployed and often miniaturized standards. These

A Bilateral Comparison of NIST And PTB Laser Power Standards for Scale Realization Confidence by Gravitational Wave Observatories

September 13, 2021
Author(s)
Matthew Spidell, John Lehman, Stefan Kueck, Marco Lopez, Holger Lecher, Richard Savage, Dripta Bhattacharjee
The Gravitational Wave (GW) observatories calibrate interferometer displacement using photon momentum, with laser power serving as the measurand. These observatories are traceable to the International System of Units through a primary standard maintained

High-accuracy room temperature planar absolute radiometer based on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

July 1, 2021
Author(s)
Anna Vaskuri, Michelle Stephens, Nathan Tomlin, Matthew Spidell, Chris Yung, Andrew Walowitz, Cameron Straatsma, David Harber, John H. Lehman
We have developed a Planar Absolute Radiometer for Room Temperature (PARRoT) that will replace the legacy C-series calorimeter as the free-space continuous-wave laser power detector standard at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Accurate localization microscopy by intrinsic aberration calibration

June 24, 2021
Author(s)
Craig Copeland, Craig McGray, Robert Ilic, Jon Geist, Samuel Stavis
A standard paradigm of localization microscopy involves extension from two to three dimensions by engineering information into emitter images, and approximation of errors resulting from the field dependence of optical aberrations. We invert this standard

Witnessing the survival of time-energy entanglement through biological tissue and media

June 9, 2021
Author(s)
Daniel J. Lum, Michael Mazurek, Alexander Mikhaylov, Kristen M. Parzuchowski, Ryan M. Wilson, Marcus Cicerone, Ralph Jimenez, Thomas Gerrits, Martin Stevens, Charles Camp
In this work, we demonstrate the preservation of time-energy entanglement of near-IR photons through thick biological media ( 1.55 mm) and tissue ( 235 um) at room temperature. Using a Franson-type interferometer, we demonstrate interferometric contrast of

CALIBRATION OF SPECTRORADIOMETERS USING TUNABLE LASERS

April 22, 2021
Author(s)
Yuqin Zong, Ping-Shine Shaw, Joseph Rice, C Cameron Miller
To shorten the long calibration chain when using the conventional source-based approach and therefore to reduce spectroradiometer's calibration uncertainty, we developed a detector-based approach to calibrate spectroradiometers directly against a transfer

Depolarization in diffusely scattering media

April 22, 2021
Author(s)
Thomas A. Germer
We performed Mueller matrix Monte Carlo simulations of the propagation of optical radiation in diffusely scattering media for collimated incidence and report depolarization in the the transmitted rays as a function of thickness, the angle subtended by the

Recent research and development in photometry at NIST

April 22, 2021
Author(s)
Yuqin Zong, Maria Nadal, Benjamin K. Tsai, C Cameron Miller
Many developments were made in recent years in photometry at NIST for reducing measurement uncertainties, increasing calibration efficiencies, and adding measurement capabilities. The 40 years old photometry laboratory has been renovated. The new

Spatial frequency domain Mueller matrix imaging

April 22, 2021
Author(s)
Joseph Chue-Sang, Aaron Goldfain, Jeeseong C. Hwang, Thomas A. Germer
We combine Mueller matrix polarimetry (MMP) with spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) to create a technique that is sensitive to near-surface material anisotropy. We demonstrate this imaging modality with scattering and absorbing phantoms and with a

STANDARD LEDS WITH SUPERIOR LONG-TERM STABILITY

April 22, 2021
Author(s)
Yuqin Zong, Weiqiang Zhao, C Cameron Miller
A large-chip standard LED with superior long-term stability have been developed at NIST. The standard LED uses a large, specialty die rated for 50 W but is operated under 3 W to eliminate aging effect. The standard LED was seasoned for one year and
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