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Comparison of Two Continuous GPS Carrier-Phase Time Transfer Techniques

April 12, 2015
Author(s)
Jian Yao, Skakun Ivan, Zhiheng Jiang, Judah Levine
Global Positioning System (GPS) carrier-phase (CP) time transfer, as a widely accepted high-precision time transfer method, frequently shows a data-batch boundary discontinuity of up to 1 ns, because of the inconsistency of the phase ambiguities between

Practical Limitations of NTP Time Transfer

April 12, 2015
Author(s)
Andrew N. Novick, Michael A. Lombardi
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is commonly utilized to synchronize computer clocks in packet-switched, wide area networks (WANs) such as the public Internet. The delay asymmetry in WANs, often due to inconsistent routing and/or bandwidth saturation, is

Time Signals Converging within Cyber-Physical Systems

April 12, 2015
Author(s)
Marc A. Weiss, Sundeep Chandhoke, Hugh Melvin
Time is central to predicting, measuring and controlling properties of the physical world, and is one of the most important constraints distinguishing Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) from distributed computing in general. However mixing the cyber and the

Light shifts in a pulsed cold-atom coherent-population-trapping clock

April 10, 2015
Author(s)
Eric M. Blanshan, Elizabeth A. Donley, John E. Kitching
Field-grade atomic clocks capable of primary standard performance in compact physics packages would be of significant value in a variety of applications. A cold-atom coherent population trapping clock featuring laser-cooled 87Rb atoms and pulsed Ramsey

Exponential scaling of clock stability with atom number

March 28, 2015
Author(s)
Till P. Rosenband, David R. Leibrandt
In trapped-atom clocks, the primary source of decoherence is often the phase noise of the oscillator. In this case, it is theoretically possible to derive exponential performance gains by combining several atomic ensembles. For example, M ensembles of N

Early observations of macroscopic quantum jumps in single atoms

March 25, 2015
Author(s)
Wayne M. Itano, James C. Bergquist, David J. Wineland
The observation of intermittent fluorescence of a single atomic ion, a phenomenon better known as 'macroscopic quantum jumps,' was an important early scientific application of the three-dimensional rf quadrupole (Paul) trap. The prediction of the

Update on the MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment

March 24, 2015
Author(s)
Kevin J. Coakley, K. Rielage, M. Akashi-Ronquest, M. Bodmer, R. Bourque, B. Buck, A. Butcher, T. Caldwell, Y. Chen, F. A. Duncan, E. Flores, J. A. Formaggio, D. Glaster, F. Giuliani, M. Gold, E. Grace, J. Griego, N. Guerrero, V. Guiseppe, R. Henning, A. Hime, S. Jaditz, C. Kachulis, E. Kearns, J. Kelsey, J. R. Klein, A. Latorre, I. Lawson, O. Li, P. Liimatainen, S. Linden, F. Lopez, K. McFarlane, D. N. McKinsey, S. MacMullin, A. Mastbaum, D.-M. Mei, J. Monroe, J. A. Nikkel, J. Oertel, G. D. Orebi Gann, K. Palladino, G. Perumpilly, L. Rodriguez, R. Schnee, S. Seibert, J. Walding, B. Wang, J. Wang, C. Zhang
The direct search for dark matter is entering a period of increased sensitivity to the hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). One such technology that is being examined is a scintillationonly noble liquid experiment, MiniCLEAN. MiniCLEAN

High-Fidelity, Weak-Light Polarization Gate Using Room-Temperature Atomic Vapor

March 18, 2015
Author(s)
Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, Runbing Li, Chengjie Zhu
Using a polarization-selective-Kerr-phase-shift technique we demonstrate a fast, all-optical, high-fidelity polarization gate in a room-temperature atomic medium. By writing a pi-phase shift to one selected circularly-polarized component of a linearly

Light-wave mixing and scattering with quantum gases

March 18, 2015
Author(s)
Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, C.J. Zhu
We show that optical processes originating from elementary excitations with dominant collective atomic recoil motion in a quantum gas can profoundly change many nonlinear optical processes routinely observed in a normal gas. Not only multi-photon wave

Development and evaluation of interface-stabilized and reactive-sputtered oxide-capped multilayers for EUV lithography

March 16, 2015
Author(s)
Michael Kriese, Jim Rodriguez, Gary Fournier, Steven Grantham, Shannon B. Hill, John J. Curry, Charles Tarrio, Yuriy Platonov
A critical component of high-performance EUV lithography source optics is the reflecting multilayer coating. The ideal multilayer will have both high reflectance and high stability to thermal load. Additionally the capping layers must provide resistance to

Dual-microcavity narrow-linewidth Brillouin laser

March 5, 2015
Author(s)
William Loh, Adam A. Green, Frederick N. Baynes, Daniel C. Cole, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Hansuek Lee, Kerry J. Vahala, Scott A. Diddams
The tunable narrow-linewidth laser is a revolutionary metrology tool that is critical in precision spectroscopy and the determination of fundamental physical constants, displacement measurements at the 10 -20 level, and the development of the most advanced

Analysis of coincidence-time loopholes in experimental Bell tests

March 4, 2015
Author(s)
B. G. Christensen, A. Hill, P. G. Kwiat, Emanuel Knill, Sae Woo Nam, Kevin Coakley, Scott Glancy, Krister Shalm, Y. Zhang
We apply a distance-based Bell-test analysis method ["Bell inequalities for continuously emitting sources" E. Knill et al. arXiv:14097732 (2014)] to three experimental data sets where conventional analyses failed or required additional assumptions. The

Bell Inequalities for Continuously Emitting Sources

March 4, 2015
Author(s)
Emanuel H. Knill, Scott C. Glancy, Sae Woo Nam, Kevin J. Coakley, Yanbao Zhang
A common experimental strategy for demonstrating non-classical correlations is to show violation of a Bell inequality by measuring a continuously emitted stream of entangled photon pairs. The measurements involve the detection of photons by two spatially

Time-Aware Applications, Computers, and Communication Systems (TAACCS)

February 21, 2015
Author(s)
Marc A. Weiss, John Eidson, Charles Barry, David Broman, Bob Iannucci, Edward A. Lee, Kevin Stanton, Sr, Leon Goldin
A new economy built on the massive growth of endpoints on the internet will require precise and verifiable timing in ways that current systems do not support. Applications, computers, and communications systems have been developed with modules and layers

Photon-noise limited sensitivity in titanium nitride kinetic inductance detectors

February 20, 2015
Author(s)
Johannes Hubmayr, James A. Beall, Daniel T. Becker, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Gene C. Hilton, Dale Li, David P. Pappas, Jeffrey L. Van Lanen, Mark Devlin, Kent D. Irwin, Chris Groppi, Phillip Mauskopf
We demonstrate photon-noise limited performance at sub-millimeter wavelengths in microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) made of a new superconducting material, a TiN/Ti/TiN trilayer film. Optical coupling is achieved by use of feedhorns, a standard

Temperature-dependent structure of Tb-doped magnetite nanoparticles

February 13, 2015
Author(s)
Katherine P. Rice, Stephen E. Russek, Roy H. Geiss, Justin Shaw, Robert J. Usselman, Eric R. Evarts, Thomas J. Silva, Hans Nembach, Elke Arenholz, Yves U. Idzerda
High quality 5 nm cubic Tb-doped magnetite nanoparticles have been synthesized by a modified wet-chemical method to investigate tailoring of magnetic properties for imaging and biomedical applications. We show that the Tb is incorporated into the

Attosecond timing in optical-to-electrical conversion

February 10, 2015
Author(s)
Frederick N. Baynes, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Tara M. Fortier, Qiugui Zhou, Andreas Beling, Joe C. Campbell, Scott A. Diddams
The most frequency-stable sources of electromagnetic radiation are produced optically, and optical frequency combs provide the means for high fidelity frequency transfer across hundreds of terahertz and into the microwave domain. A critical step in the

Optical atomic clocks

February 9, 2015
Author(s)
Andrew D. Ludlow, Martin M. Boyd, Jun Ye, E. Peik, P. O. Schmidt
Optical atomic clocks represent the state-of-the-art in the frontier of modern measurement science. In this article we provide a detailed review on the development of optical atomic clocks that are based on trapped single ions and many neutral atoms. We

Optically pumped semiconductor lasers for atomic and molecular physics

February 7, 2015
Author(s)
Dietrich G. Leibfried, Shaun Burd, Andrew C. Wilson, David J. Wineland
Experiments in atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics rely on lasers at many different wavelengths and with varying requirements on spectral linewidth, power and intensity stability. Optically pumped semiconductor lasers (OPSLs), when combined with

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

February 2, 2015
Author(s)
Petrina C. Potts
The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST services
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