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Measuring the difference in nuclear charge radius of Xe isotopes by EUV spectroscopy of highly charged Na-like ions

November 5, 2018
Author(s)
Roshani Silwal, A. Lapierre, John D. Gillaspy, Joan M. Dreiling, S A. Blundell, Dipti Goyal, A. Borovik, Jr., G Gwinner, A.C.C. Villari, Yuri Ralchenko, Endre Takacs
The difference in the mean-square nuclear charge radius of xenon isotopes was measured utilizing a method based on extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of highly charged Na-like ions. The isotope shift of the Na-like D1 (3s 2S1/2 − 3p 2P1/2) transition between

Modulated Photocurrent Measurements in Double Junction Solar Cells

November 4, 2018
Author(s)
Nicolas Marquez Peraca, Behrang Hamadani
Frequency dependent external quantum efficiency (EQE) measurements were performed on double junction solar cells by a custom-designed system consisting of an array of various monochromatic LEDs. Some LEDs were pulsed as a function of frequency while others

Periodic Table of the Elements

November 3, 2018
Author(s)
Karen Olsen
The periodic table contains NIST's latest critically evaluated data for atomic properties of the elements.

Certifying Quantum Randomness by Probability Estimation

October 31, 2018
Author(s)
Emanuel H. Knill, Yanbao Zhang, Peter L. Bierhorst
We introduce probability estimation, a broadly applicable frameworkto certify randomness in a finite sequence of measurements subject to verifiable physical constraints and with respect to classical side information. Examples include randomness from single

Reversible Kerr-soliton generation

October 16, 2018
Author(s)
Daniel C. Cole, Jordan R. Stone, Scott B. Papp
We demonstrate deterministic and reversible generation of single Kerr-microresonator solitons using a phase-modulated pump laser. In agreement with simulations, modulation enables soliton generation from a below-threshold background and provides control of

Monte Carlo Simulation of Cylinders with Short-Range Attractions

September 12, 2018
Author(s)
Harold W. Hatch, Nathan Mahynski, R. P. Murphy, Marco Blanco, Vincent K. Shen
Cylindrical or rod-like particles are promising materials for the applications of fillers in nanocomposite ma- terials and additives to control rheological properties of colloidal suspensions. Recent advances in particle synthesis allows for cylinders to

Lifetime of the metastable 2 P 1/2 state of F-like Ar 9+ isolated in a compact Penning trap

September 6, 2018
Author(s)
Samuel M. Brewer, Joan M. Dreiling, Nicholas D. Guise, Shannon M. Hoogerheide, Aung Naing, Joseph N. Tan
Multiple-ionized atoms can be captured at low energy in a compact Penning trap, allowing the isolation of a single charge state to measure the radiative lifetime of an atomic state that decays via weakly allowed transitions. Such a measurement is reported

Transition probabilities of Co II, weak lines to the ground and low metastable levels

September 5, 2018
Author(s)
James E. Lawler, T. Feigenson, Chris Sneden, John J. Cowan, Gillian Nave
New branching fraction measurements based primarily on data from a cross dispersed echelle spectrometer are reported for 84 lines of Co II. The branching fractions for 82 lines are converted to absolute atomic transition probabilities using radiative

High-efficiency Coherence-Preserving Harmonic Rejection with Crystal Optics

September 1, 2018
Author(s)
Fan Zhang, Andrew J. Allen, Lyle E. Levine, Gabrielle G. Long, Ivan Kuzmenko, Jan Ilavsky
We report a harmonic rejection scheme based on the combination of Si (111) monochromator and Si (220) harmonic-rejection crystal optics. This approach is of importance to a wide range of X- ray applications in all three major branches of modern X-ray

Tunable mid-infrared generation via wide-band four-wave mixing in silicon nitride waveguides

August 27, 2018
Author(s)
Abijith S. Kowligy, Daniel D. Hickstein, Alexander Lind, David Carlson, Henry R. Timmers, Nima Nader, Daniel Maser, Daron Westly, Kartik Srinivasan, Scott Papp, Scott Diddams
We demonstrate wide-band frequency down-conversion to the mid-infrared (MIR) using four-wave mixing (FWM) of near-infrared (NIR) femtosecond-duration pulses from an Er:fiber laser, corresponding to 100 THz spectral translation. Photonic-chip-based silicon

Phase Modulators Based on High Mobility Ambipolar ReSe2 Field-Effect Transistors

August 24, 2018
Author(s)
Nihar Pradhan, Carlos Garcia, Bridget Isenberg, Daniel Rhodes, Simin Feng, Shariar Memaran, Yan Xin, Amber McCreary, Angela R. Hight Walker, Aldo Raeliarijaona, Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones, Steve McGill, Luis Balicas
We fabricated ambipolar field-effect transistors (FETs) from multi-layered triclinic ReSe2, mechanically exfoliated onto a SiO2 layer grown on p-doped Si. In contrast to previous reports on thin layers (2 to 3 layers), we extract field-effect carrier

Complex coacervation in polyelectrolytes from a coarse-grained model

August 22, 2018
Author(s)
Jack F. Douglas, Marat Andreev, Juan J. DePablo, Vivek Prabhu, Matthew Tirrell
Polyelectrolyte coacervation refers to the formation of distinct liquid phases that arise when polyelectrolytes are mixed under appropriate polymer and salt concentrations. Molecular-level studies of complex polyelectrolyte coacervation have been limited

Photonic Topological Anderson Insulators

August 22, 2018
Author(s)
Simon St?tzer, Yonatan Plotnik, Yaakov Lumer, Paraj T. Bhattacharjee, Netanel Lindner, Mordechai Segev, Mikael Rechtsman, Alexander Szameit

White Rabbit-Based Time Distribution at NIST

August 21, 2018
Author(s)
Joshua J. Savory, Jeffrey A. Sherman, Stefania Romisch
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is responsible for ensuring the quality of its international and domestic time and frequency distribution systems. Since the physical inputs to these systems are not collocated within the campus, an

Spinor Bose-Einstein condensate phase-sensitive amplifier for SU(1,1) interferometry

August 16, 2018
Author(s)
Jonathan Wrubel, Arne Schwettmann, Donald P. Fahey, Glassmann Zachary, Heywon Pechkis, Paul Griffin, Ryan Barnett, Eite Tiesinga
The SU(1,1) interferometer was originally conceived as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with the beam-splitters replaced by parametric amplifiers. The parametric amplifiers produce states with correlations that result in enhanced phase sensitivity. F = 1

Chip Scale Atomic Devices

August 14, 2018
Author(s)
John E. Kitching
Chip-scale atomic devices combine elements of precision atomic spectroscopy, silicon micromachining and advanced diode laser technology to create compact, low-power and manufacturable instruments with high precision and stability. We review the design

Infrared Astronomical Spectroscopy and Radial Velocity Measurements with Precision Below 10 cm/s

August 9, 2018
Author(s)
Andrew J. Metcalf, Tyler Anderson, Chad F. Bender, Wesley Brand, David Carlson, Scott Diddams, Connor Fredrick, S. Halverson, Daniel D. Hickstein, Fred Hearty, Jeffrey M. Jennings, Shubham Kanodia, Kyle Kaplan, Emily Lubar, Suvrath Mahadevan, Andrew Monson, Joe P. Ninan, Colin Nitroy, Scott Papp, L. Ramsey, Paul Robertson, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Kartik Srinivasan, Gudmundur Stefansson, Ryan C. Terrien
We detail the first infrared precision astronomical spectroscopy results from the combination of an electro-optic laser frequency comb and the Habitable Zone Planet Finder spectrograph at the 10 m Hobby-Eberly telescope.

An electro-optic ultrafast light source with sub-cycle stability

August 8, 2018
Author(s)
David R. Carlson, Daniel D. Hickstein, Wei Zhang, Andrew J. Metcalf, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp
Optical frequency combs can produce femtosecond light pulses with sub-cycle precision, and are typically made by relying on the intrinsic stability of mode-locked lasers. Now, by carving a continuous-wave laser into pulses via electro-optic modulation (EOM

Thermal and Nonlinear Dissipative-Soliton Dynamics in Kerr Microresonator Frequency Combs

August 8, 2018
Author(s)
Jordan R. Stone, Travis Briles, Tara E. Drake, Daryl T. Spencer, David R. Carlson, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp
We report on radiofrequency techniques to reliably generate and control dissipative-Kerr- soliton microresonator frequency combs. Since the pump-laser frequency detuning to the resonator primarily determines the soliton dynamics, we devise an offset Pound

Use of SDR Receivers in TWSTFT for UTC Computation

August 3, 2018
Author(s)
Zhiheng Jiang, Victor S. Zhang, Yi-Jiun Huang, Joseph Achkar, Dirk Piester, Shinn-Yan Lin, Wenjun Wu, Sung-hoon Yang, Jerzy Nawrocki, Ilaria Sesia, Christian Schlunegger, Zhiqiang Yang, Miho Fujieda, Albin Czubla, Hector Esteban, Carsten Rieck, Peter Whibberley
Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT) is a primary technique for the generation of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). About 20 timing laboratories around the world continuously operate TWSTFT using the SAtellite Time and Ranging Equipment
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