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A Library to Enable the Modeling of Optical Imaging of Finite Multi-Line Arrays.

September 30, 2016
Author(s)
Mark Alexander Henn, Bryan M. Barnes
The dataset contains several MATLAB files and input files for the software package JCMsuite that enable the modeling of optical imaging of finite multi-line arrays. (Certain commercial materials are identified in order to specify the experimental procedure

Optimizing Subfield Targets for Nanoscale Quantitative Optical Imaging

September 29, 2016
Author(s)
Mark Alexander Henn, Bryan M. Barnes, Hui Zhou, Martin Y. Sohn, Richard M. Silver
The full 3-D scattered field above finite sets of features has been shown to contain a continuum of spatial frequency information, and with novel optical microscopy techniques and electromagnetic modeling, deep-subwavelength geometrical parameters can be

Ultrafast time-resolved hard x-ray emission spectroscopy on a table top

September 27, 2016
Author(s)
Luis Miaja Avila, Galen C. O'Neil, Young Il Joe, Bradley K. Alpert, Niels Damrauer, William B. Doriese, Steven Fatur, Joseph W. Fowler, Gene C. Hilton, Ralph Jimenez, Carl D. Reintsema, Daniel R. Schmidt, Kevin L. Silverman, Daniel S. Swetz, Hideyuki Tatsuno, Joel N. Ullom
Chemical reactions driven by light are fundamental to biology and a source of inspiration for engineering materials to perform tasks such as solar energy harvesting and data storage. Observing and understanding photodynamics requires experimental tools

Interaction of aerosol particle with a standing wave optical field

September 16, 2016
Author(s)
John J. Curry
Trajectories of spherical dielectric particles carried across an optical standing wave by a flowing medium areinvestigated. Trajectories are determined by a three-dimensional Monte Carlo calculation that includes drag forces, Brownian motion, and optical

Surface plasmon resonance microscopy: achieving a quantitative optical response

September 7, 2016
Author(s)
Alexander Peterson, Michael Halter, Anne Plant, John Elliott
Surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRI) allows real-time label-free imaging based on index of refraction, and changes in index of refraction at an interface. SPRI can be carried out on a microscope by launching light into a sample, and collecting

Ultra-low-noise monolithic mode-locked solid-state laser

September 1, 2016
Author(s)
T D. Shoji, W Xie, Kevin L. Silverman, Ari Feldman, Todd E. Harvey, Richard Mirin, Thomas Schibli
Low-noise, high-repetition-rate mode-locked solid-state lasers are attractive for precision measurement and microwave generation, but the best lasers in terms of noise performance still consist of complex, bulky optical setups, which limits their range of

Ontology-based laser and thermal metamodels for metal-based additive manufacturing

August 24, 2016
Author(s)
Paul Witherell, Ibrahim Assouroko, Roh Byeong-Min, Timothy Simpson, Soundar Kumara
Additive manufacturing (AM) is creating renewed interest in manufacturing thanks to the freedom it provides to design and innovate. One of the biggest challenges in AM is inadequate repeatability in product quality and reliability of the process for

Broadband Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering

August 11, 2016
Author(s)
Charles H. Camp
Broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (BCARS) microspectroscopy is a unique label-free imaging modality that provides detailed chemical information at each pixel. In minutes, this technique captures a “hyperspectral” cube that co-registers

Morphology-insensitive Performance Facilitates Transition from Spin-Coating to Roll-to-Roll Coating For High-Performance, Solution-Processed Solar Cells

August 2, 2016
Author(s)
Lee J. Richter, Jonathan Downing, Sebastian Engmann, Hyun W. Ro, Andrew A. Herzing, Dean M. DeLongchamp, Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Harald Ade, Maged Addelsamie, Aram Amassian, Yuhang Liu, He Yan
Solution processing via roll-to-roll (R2R) coating promises a low cost, low thermal-budget, sustainable revolution for the production of solar cells. Yet virtually all high performance solution processed research cells have been demonstrated by spin

Coherent and incoherent coupling dynamics between neutral and charged excitons in Monolayer MoSe2

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Kai Hao, Lixiang Xu, Philip Nagler, Akshay Singh, Kha Tran, Chandriker K. Dass, Rupert Huber, Tobias Korn, Xiaoqin Li, Galan Moody
The optical properties of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides are dominated by both neutral excitons (electron-hole pairs) and charged excitons (trions) that are stable even at room temperature. While trions directly influence charge transport

Experimental investigation of the detection mechanism in WSi nanowire superconducting single photon detectors

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Rosalinda Gaudio, Jelmer J. Renema, Zili Zhou, Varun Verma, Jeff Shainline, Martin Stevens, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Martin P. van Exter, Michiel J. de Dood, Andrea Fiore
We use quantum detector tomography to investigate the detection mechanism in WSi nanowire superconducting single photon detectors (SSPDs). To this purpose, we fabricated a 250 nm wide and 250 nm long WSi nanowire and measured its response to impinging

Refined treatment of single-edge diffraction effects in radiometry

July 14, 2016
Author(s)
Eric L. Shirley
This work treats diffraction corrections in radiometry for cases of point and extended sources in symmetric three-element systems. It considers diffraction effects for both spectral power and total power in cases of Planckian sources. This improves upon an

Process improvements in the production of silicon immersion gratings

June 26, 2016
Author(s)
Cynthia Brooks, Benjamin Kidder, Michelle Grigas, Daniel Jaffe, Ulf Griesmann, Daniel Wilson, Richard Muller
We have explored a number of lithographic techniques and improvements to produce the resist lines that then define the grating groove edges of silicon immersion gratings. In addition to our lithographic process using contact printing with photomasks, which

Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Slitless Spectrometer: Design, Prototype, and Results

June 26, 2016
Author(s)
Qian Gong, David Content, Margaret Z. Dominguez, Thomas Emmett, Ulf Griesmann, Jeffrey Kruk, Catherine Marx, Bert Pasquale, Thomas Wallace
The slitless spectrometer plays an important role in the WFIRST mission for the survey of emission-line galaxies. This will be an unprecedented very wide field, HST quality 3D survey of emission line galaxies1. The concept of the compound grism as a

Continuous-feed optical sorting of aerosol particles

June 15, 2016
Author(s)
John J. Curry, Zachary H. Levine
We consider the problem of sorting, by size, spherical particles of order 100 nm radius. The scheme we analyze consists of a heterogeneous stream of spherical particles flowing at an oblique angle across a Gaussian mode optical standing wave. Sorting is
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