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Space-based photometric precision from ground-based telescopes

July 1, 2010
Author(s)
Peter C. Zimmer, John T. McGraw, Anthony B. Hull, Daniel C. Zirzow, Steven W. Brown, Claire E. Cramer, Gerald T. Fraser, Keith R. Lykke, Allan W. Smith, John T. Woodward IV, Christopher W. Stubbs, Mark R. Ackermann, Dean C. Hines
Ground-based telescopes supported by lidar and spectrophotometric auxiliary instrumentation can attain space-based precision for all-sky photometry, with uncertainties dominated by fundamental photon counting statistics. Earth‟s atmosphere is a wavelength-

Report on The Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2024

August 7, 2024
Author(s)
Leif Azzopardi, Charles Clarke, Paul Kantor, Bhaskar Mitra, Johanne Trippas, Zhaochun Ren, Ian Soboroff
The First Search Futures Workshop, in conjunction with the Fourty-sixth European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2024, looked into the future of search to ask questions such as: ˆ How can we harness the power of generative AI to enhance, improve

Generation of Neutron Airy Beams

July 28, 2024
Author(s)
Charles W. Clark, Dmitry Pushin, Michael G. Huber, Kirill Zhernenkov, Jonathan White, Lisa DeBeer-Schmitt, David Cory, Huseyin Ekinici, Melissa Henderson, Owen Lailey, Dusan Sarenac
The Airy wave packet is a solution to the potential-free Schr¨odinger equation that exhibits remark-able properties such as self-acceleration, non-diffraction, and self-healing. Although Airy beams are now routinely realized with electromagnetic waves and

Vision on metal additive manufacturing: Developments, challenges and future trends

September 14, 2023
Author(s)
Alain Bernard, Jean-Pierre Kruth, Jian Cao, Gisela Lanza, Stefania Bruschi, Marion Merklein, Tom Vaneker, Michael Schmidt, John Sutherland, Alkan Donmez, Eraldo da Silva
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is one of the disruptive technologies to fabricate components, parts, assemblies or tools in various fields of application due to its main characteristics such as direct digital manufacturing, ability to offer both internal and

Blockchain-Based Decentralized Authentication for Information-Centric 5G Networks

August 26, 2022
Author(s)
Muhammad Hassan Raza Khan, Davide Pesavento, Lotfi Benmohamed
The 5G research community is increasingly leveraging the innovative features offered by Information Centric Networking (ICN). However, ICN's fundamental features, such as in-network caching, make access control enforcement more challenging in an ICN-based

Revealing the Symmetry of Materials through Neutron Diffraction

June 12, 2022
Author(s)
William D. Ratcliff
Magnetic materials are used in many devices in everyday life. To control their properties, we must first understand how they are ordered. This can be accomplished through neutron diffraction measurements. However, in many cases, there are too many

Bipolar Waveform Synthesis with an Optically Driven Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

April 19, 2022
Author(s)
Justus Brevik, Dahyeon Lee, Anna Fox, Yiwei Peng, Akim Babenko, Joe Campbell, Paul Dresselhaus, Franklyn Quinlan, Samuel P. Benz
An array of Josephson junctions (JJs) was driven with photonically generated current pulses to synthesize a high-fidelity 1 kHz bipolar voltage waveform with a quantum-based amplitude that can be directly related to fundamental constants. A photodiode

Quantum Blackbody Thermometry

April 22, 2021
Author(s)
Eric B. Norrgard, Stephen Eckel, Christopher L. Holloway, Eric L. Shirley
Blackbody radiation (BBR) sources are calculable radiation sources that are frequently used in radiometry, temperature dissemination, and remote sensing. Despite their ubiquity, blackbody sources, have a plethora of systematics (e.g., emissivity

Compositional Models for Complex Systems

January 19, 2019
Author(s)
Spencer J. Breiner, Ram D. Sriram, Eswaran Subrahmanian
In this chapter we argue for the use of representations from category theory to support better models for complex systems, and provide an example of such an application might look like. Our approach rests on the well known observation that complex system

Quantum-based vacuum metrology at NIST

June 20, 2018
Author(s)
Julia K. Scherschligt, James A. Fedchak, Zeeshan Ahmed, Daniel S. Barker, Kevin O. Douglass, Stephen P. Eckel, Edward T. Hanson, Jay H. Hendricks, Thomas P. Purdy, Jacob E. Ricker, Robinjeet Singh
The measurement science in realizing and disseminating the SI unit for pressure, the pascal (Pa), has been the subject of much interest at NIST. Modern optical-based techniques for pascal metrology have been investigated, including multi-photon ionization

NIST MISE EN PRATIQUE FOR THE REALIZATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE REDEFINED KILOGRAM

October 1, 2016
Author(s)
Patrick J. Abbott, Eric Benck, Corey A. Stambaugh, Edward C. Mulhern, Zeina J. Kubarych
The SI unit of mass, the kilogram, is scheduled to be redefined in 2018 as part of a broader redefinition of the SI in terms of fundamental constants. The kilogram will be realized in terms of the Planck constant within a vacuum environment. This

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

Design of a Table-Top Watt Balance

July 26, 2016
Author(s)
Stephan Schlamminger, Jon R. Pratt, David B. Newell, Frank C. Seifert, Michael Liu, Leon S. Chao, Luis Manuel Pea Prez, Shisong Li, Darine El Haddad
Measurements of the Planck constant with watt balances using 1 kg masses have achieved relative standard uncertainties below 2 x 10-8. Having established a metrological link between the kilogram and this fundamental constant of nature, a redefinition of

Bottom Up Approaches to Improved Polyolefin Measurements

February 4, 2016
Author(s)
Sara Orski, Thomas W. Rosch, Anthony Kotula, Richard J. Sheridan, Frederick R. Phelan Jr., Kalman Migler, Chad R. Snyder, Luis F. Vargas Lara, Jack F. Douglas, Kathryn L. Beers
As a class of materials, polyolefins remain the largest production volume polymer in the world, as well as a highly desirable medium from which to engineer high performance and advanced properties for new applications. After decades of research, there are

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 1, Big Data Definitions

October 22, 2015
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang, Nancy Grady, NBD-PWG NIST Big Data Public Working Group
Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor- laden, information-driven world. While opportunities exist with Big Data, the data can overwhelm traditional technical approaches and the growth of data is

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 7, Big Data Standards Roadmap

October 22, 2015
Author(s)
Wo L. Chang, David Boyd, Carl Buffington , NBD-PWG NIST Big Data Public Working Group
Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information-driven world. While opportunities exist with Big Data, the data can overwhelm traditional technical approaches and the growth of data is

Optical Atomic Clocks

December 1, 2013
Author(s)
Christopher W. Oates, N Poli, P. Gill, G.M. Tino
In the last ten years extraordinary results in time and frequency metrology have been demonstrated. Frequency stabilization techniques for continuous wave lasers and femto-second optical frequency combs have enabled a rapid development of frequency

Analysis of shot noise in the detection of ultrashort optical pulse trains

May 31, 2013
Author(s)
Franklyn J. Quinlan, Tara M. Fortier, Haifeng (. Jiang, Scott A. Diddams
We present a frequency domain model of shot noise in the photodetection of ultrashort optical pulse trains using a time-varying analysis. Shot noise-limited photocurrent power spectral densities, signal-to-noise expressions, and shot noise spectral

Building Quantum Computers

January 22, 2013
Author(s)
Emanuel H. Knill
Abstract: In theory, quantum computers can be used to efficiently factor numbers, quadratically speed up many search and optimization problems, and enable currently impossible physics simulations. At first, quantum states appeared to be too fragile for

High Bandwidth Optical Magnetometer

November 28, 2012
Author(s)
Ricardo Jimenez Martinez, William C. Griffith, Svenja A. Knappe, John E. Kitching, Mark Prouty
We demonstrate a scalar 87Rb optical magnetometer that retains magnetic eld sensitivities below 10 pT/√Hz over 3dB bandwidths of 10 kHz in an ambient eld Bo = 11.4 microT and using a measurement volume of 1 mm 3. The magnetometer operates at high atomic

Intensity Dynamics in a Waveguide Array Laser

February 15, 2011
Author(s)
Kevin L. Silverman, Mingming M. Feng, Richard P. Mirin, Steven T. Cundiff, Matt Williams, J. Nathan N. Kutz
We consider experimentally and theoretically the optical field dynamics of a five emitter laser array subject to a linearly decreasing injection current. We have achieved experimentally an array that produces a robust oscillatory power output with a nearly
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