NOTICE: Due to a lapse in annual appropriations, most of this website is not being updated. Learn more.

Form submissions will still be accepted but will not receive responses at this time. Sections of this site for programs using non-appropriated funds (such as NVLAP) or those that are excepted from the shutdown (such as CHIPS and NVD) will continue to be updated.

U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Physics

Search Publications

Search Title, Abstract, Conference, Citation, Keyword or Author
  • Published Date
Displaying 1526 - 1550 of 2493

Ultra-Low-Field NMR Relaxation and Diffusion Measurements Using an Optical Magnetometer

July 31, 2014
Author(s)
John E. Kitching, P. Ganssle, H Shin, Scott J. Seltzer, Vikram S. Bajaj, Micah P. Ledbetter, Dimitry Budkerl, Svenja A. Knappe, A Pines
In this work, we have demonstrated for the first time that an alkali vapor cell magnetometer has sufficient sensitivity to chemically resolve a heterogeneous mixture of oil and water by its relaxation and diffusion properties, both in one dimensional

Extended Analysis of the Spectrum of Singly Ionized Chromium (Cr II)

July 23, 2014
Author(s)
Craig J. Sansonetti, Gillian Nave
We have made new observations of the spectrum of singly-ionized chromium (Cr II) in the region 2850 Angstrom to 37900 Angstrom with the National Institute of Standards and Technology 2 m Fourier transform spectrometer. These data extend our previously

Electro-optical frequency division and stable microwave synthesis

July 19, 2014
Author(s)
Scott A. Diddams, Jiang Li, Xu Li, Hansuek Lee, Kerry J. Vahala
Optical frequency division using a mode-locked- laser, frequency comb has revolutionized time keeping and the generation of stable microwave signals. A different approach for optical frequency division and microwave generation using a comb of frequencies

Modulated Electromechanics: Large Enhancements of Nonlinearities

July 16, 2014
Author(s)
Raymond W. Simmonds, Jie-Qiao Liao, Kurt Jacobs, Franco Nori
It is well-known that the nonlinear coupling between a mechanical oscillator and a superconducting oscillator or optical cavity can be used to generate a Kerr-nonlinearity for the cavity mode. We show that the strength of this Kerr-nonlinearity, as well as

Effect of Impurities on Water Triple Point Cells

July 15, 2014
Author(s)
A Peruzzi, J. van Geel, A. Uytun, M. Kalemci, E. Uysal, Gregory F. Strouse, Yoana Y. Nuevo Ordonez, William Davis
Water triple point cells are the basis for the definition of the Kelvin and for the realization of the International Temperature Scale of 1990. The temperature differences between the cells are mainly caused by impurities arising in the cell water from the

Extreme ultraviolet spectra and analysis of ?n=0 transitions in highly charged barium

July 4, 2014
Author(s)
Joseph Reader, John D. Gillaspy, Dmitry D. Osin, Yuri Ralchenko
Extreme ultraviolet spectra of highly charged barium atoms were produced with an electron beam ion trap (EBIT) and recorded with a flat-field grazing-incidence spectrometer. The spectra were measured in the wavelength range 4 nm to 24 nm with the beam

Microresonator frequency comb optical clock

July 1, 2014
Author(s)
Scott B. Papp, Katja M. Beha, Pascal P. Del'Haye, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Hansuek Lee, Kerry J. Vahala, Scott A. Diddams
Optical frequency combs enable measurement precision at the 20th digit, and measurement accuracy entirely commensurate with their reference oscillator. A new direction in experiments is the creation of ultracompact frequency combs by way of nonlinear

State of the Art Raman Techniques for Biological Applications

July 1, 2014
Author(s)
Angela R. Hight Walker, Alasdair Rae, Rainer Stosch, Petr Klapetek, Debdulal Roy
Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool for the elucidation of qualitative and quantitative information from biological systems and has huge potential in areas such as biotechnologies, drug discovery, agro-chemical research and clinical diagnostics. This

Tests of Theory in Rydberg States of One-electron Ions

July 1, 2014
Author(s)
Joseph N. Tan, Peter J. Mohr
Comparison of optical frequency measurements to predictions of quantum electrodynamics (QED) for Rydberg states of one-electron ions can test theory and allow new determinations of constants of nature to be made. Simplifications in the QED theory of high

Photon-Efficient High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution

June 12, 2014
Author(s)
Tian Zhong, Hongchao Zhou, Ligong Wang, Gregory Wornell, Zheshen Zhang, Jeffrey Shapiro, Franco N. Wong, Rob Horansky, Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Richard Mirin, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Alessandro Restelli, Joshua Bienfang, Francesco Marsili, Matthew Shaw
We demonstrate two high-dimensional QKD protocols - secure against collective Gaussian attacks - yielding up to 8.6 secure bits per photon and 6.7 Mb/s throughput, with 6.9 bits per photon after transmission through 20 km of fiber.

Common Symbols Used in Gas and Liquid Chromatographic Schematic Diagrams

June 4, 2014
Author(s)
Thomas J. Bruno
The literature of gas and liquid chromatography frequently contains schematic diagrams that depict analytical apparatus and peripherals. The interpretation of such diagrams can be facilitated by the following graphics that show the most common symbols used

Figures of Merit

June 4, 2014
Author(s)
Thomas J. Bruno
In the interpretation of results from a particular technique, one often must evaluate the performance of the measurement on the basis of objective measures that are called figures of merit. The following table provides a description of the more common

Large-area irradiance-mode spectral response measurements of solar cells by a light-emitting-diode- based integrating sphere source

May 30, 2014
Author(s)
Behrang H. Hamadani, John F. Roller, Andrew M. Shore, Brian P. Dougherty, Howard W. Yoon
An irradiance-mode absolute differential spectral response measurement system based on a light emitting diode (LED) array is described. The LEDs are coupled to an integrating sphere whose output irradiance is uniform to better than 2 % over an area of 160

Fe I Oscillator Strengths for the Gaia-ESO Survey

May 27, 2014
Author(s)
Matthew Ruffoni, E. A. Den Hartog, James E. Lawler, N. R. Brewer, K. Lind, Gillian Nave, J C. Pickering
The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey (GES) is conducting a large-scale study of multielement chemical abundances of some 100; 000 stars in the Milky Way with the ultimate aim of quantifying the formation history and evolution of young, mature and

Collapse of the Cross-spectral Function

May 22, 2014
Author(s)
Craig W. Nelson, Archita Hati, David A. Howe
Cross-spectral analysis is a mathematical tool for extracting the power spectral density of a correlated signal from two time series in the presence of uncorrelated interfering signals. We demonstrate and explain a set of amplitude and phase conditions

Correlation Measurements between PM and AM Noise in Oscillators

May 22, 2014
Author(s)
Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, David A. Howe
We discuss techniques for measuring the correlation between phase modulated (PM) and amplitude modulated (AM) noise in an oscillator and report results of such correlation in a few selected oscillators of similar size, weight, power consumption and

Frequency Biases in a Cold-Atom Coherent Population Trapping Clock

May 22, 2014
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Donley, Eric M. Blanshan, Francois-Xavier R. Esnault, John E. Kitching
A compact cold-atom clock based on coherent population trapping (CPT) has been developed. The clock typically demonstrates a short-term fractional frequency stability of 4x10 -11/√τ limited by frequency noise on the interrogation lasers. The largest two

Optical hyperpolarization and NMR detection of 129 Xe on a microfluidic chip

May 20, 2014
Author(s)
Ricardo Jimenez Martinez, Daniel J. Kennedy, Michael Rosenbluh, Elizabeth A. Donley, Svenja A. Knappe, Scott J. Seltzer, Hattie L. Ring, Vikram S. Bajaj, John E. Kitching
We present a microfluidic chip that enables the production of laser-polarized 129Xe gas and its optical detection. Production of polarized 129Xe and its remote detection is achieved under flowing gas conditions at low magnetic fields in two separate

Phase and coherence of optical microresonator frequency combs

May 9, 2014
Author(s)
William Loh, Pascal P. Del'Haye, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams
We investigate the phase and coherence properties of microresonator combs using a combination of theoretical analysis, numerical simulation, and experimental measurement. Our analysis reveals that the comb phase in many cases does not stabilize to an
Was this page helpful?