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Sensing Fabrication Errors in Diffraction Gratings using High Dynamic Range Imaging

July 19, 2019
Author(s)
Sofia C. Corzo Garcia, Johannes A. Soons, Ulf Griesmann
We describe the design of a simple instrument for the identification and characterization of fabrication errors in diffraction gratings. The instrument uses an uncooled charge-coupled device (CCD) camera and a high dynamic range imaging process to detect

Reference data set and variability study for human skin reflectance

June 30, 2019
Author(s)
P. Yvonne Barnes, David W. Allen, Benjamin K. Tsai
The optical properties of human skin have been of interest to researchers for some time. Their interest is based on a need to know for a variety of different applications, which range from spectral imaging for automated or stand-off detection, non-invasive

Assessing form-dependent optical scattering at vacuum- and extreme-ultraviolet wavelengths off nanostructures with two-dimensional periodicity

June 24, 2019
Author(s)
Bryan M. Barnes, Mark Alexander Henn, Martin Y. Sohn, Hui Zhou, Richard M. Silver
Several metamaterials and nanostructures are form birefringent, exhibiting effective refractive index differences for orthogonal polarizations due to the placement of subwavelength features if the periodicity is smaller than the incident wavelength. As the

Efficient telecom-to-visible spectral translation through ultra-low power nonlinear nanophotonics

June 24, 2019
Author(s)
Xiyuan Lu, Gregory Moille, Qing Li, Daron Westly, Anshuman Singh, Ashutosh Rao, Su P. Yu, Travis Briles, Scott Papp, Kartik Srinivasan
The ability to spectrally translate lightwave signals in a compact, low-power platform is at the heart of the promise of nonlinear nanophotonic technologies. For example, a device to connect the telecommunications band with visible and short near-infrared

An Atom Probe Tomograph Incorporating a Wavelength-Tuneable Femtosecond-Pulsed Coherent Extreme Ultraviolet Light Source

June 19, 2019
Author(s)
Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Luis Miaja Avila, Paul T. Blanchard, David R. Diercks, Brian Gorman, Norman A. Sanford
Pulsed coherent extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation is a potential promising alternative to pulsed infra-red, visible, and near- ultraviolet laser sources for atom probe tomography. In addition to having the benefit of high absorption across the periodic

Infrared electric-field sampled frequency comb spectroscopy

June 7, 2019
Author(s)
Abijith S. Kowligy, Henry R. Timmers, Alexander Lind, Ugaitz Elu, Flavio Caldas da Cruz, Peter Schunemann, Jens Biegert, Scott Diddams
Molecular spectroscopy in the mid-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (3--25 um) has been a cornerstone interdisciplinary analytical technique widely adapted across the biological, chemical, and physical sciences. Applications range from

Report for Dedicated JPSS VIIRS Ocean Color Calibration/Validation Cruise May 2018

May 31, 2019
Author(s)
Michael Ondrusek, Veronica P. Lance, Menghua Wang, Eric Stengel, Charles Kovach, Robert Arnone, Sherwin Ladner, Wesley Goode, Ahmed El-Habashi, Carlos Carrizo, Eder Herrera, Sam Ahmed, Joaquim I. Goes, Helga de Rosario Gomes, Kali McKee, Chuanmin Hu, Jennifer Cannizzaro, Yingjun Zhang, Chih-Wei Huang, David English, B. Carol Johnson, Zhongping Lee, Xiaolong Yu, Zhehai Shang, Nicholas Tufillaro, Ivan Lalovic, Kenneth Voss
The overall aim of the annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) dedicated Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) ocean color calibration/validation cruises is to support improvements in

Single-scan acquisition of multiple multidimensional spectra

May 29, 2019
Author(s)
Travis M. Autry, Galan Moody, James M. Fraser, Corey A. McDonald, Richard P. Mirin, Kevin L. Silverman
Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy is a powerful tool for understanding the ultrafast dynamics of complex quantum systems. To fully characterize the nonlinear optical response of a system, multiple pulse sequences must be recorded and quantitatively

pyLLE: a Fast and User Friendly Lugiato-Lefever Equation Solver

May 24, 2019
Author(s)
Gregory T. Moille, Qing Li, Xiyuan Lu, Kartik Srinivasan
The Lugiato-Lefever Equation (LLE), first developed to provide a description of spatial dissipative structures in optical systems, has recently made a significant impact in the integrated photonics community, where it has been adopted to help understand

Uncertainty in global downwelling plane irradiance estimates from sintered polytetra fluoroethylene plaque radiance measurements

May 20, 2019
Author(s)
Alexandre Castagna, B. Carol Johnson, Kenneth Voss, Heidi M. Dierssen, Heather Patrick, Thomas Germer, Zhehai Shang
Global downwelling plane irradiance is a necessary variable to normalize the water-leaving radiance measurements, reducing the magnitude and spectral variabilities introduced by the incident light field. As a result, the normalized measurements, known as

Structured Illumination Mueller Matrix Imaging

May 16, 2019
Author(s)
Joseph P. Angelo, Thomas Germer, Maritoni Litorja
We perform Mueller matrix imaging (MMI) of diffusely scattering phantoms under sinusoidal irradiance of varying spatial frequency. Quantitative polarimetric sensing via MMI completely characterizes a sample's polarimetric properties, while structured

Electromagnetically induced transparency in inhomogeneously broadened solid media

May 15, 2019
Author(s)
Kumel H. Kagalwala, Fan Haoquan, Sergey Polyakov, Alan L. Migdall, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt
We study, theoretically and experimentally, electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in two di erent solid-state systems. Unlike many implementations in homogeneously broadened media, these systems exhibit inhomogeneous broadening of their optical