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WWVB: A Half Century of Delivering Accurate Frequency and Time by Radio

March 12, 2014
Author(s)
Michael A. Lombardi, Glenn K. Nelson
In commemoration of its 50th anniversary of broadcasting from Fort Collins, Colorado, this paper provides a history of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) radio station WWVB. The narrative describes the evolution of the station, from its

A collapse of the cross-spectral function in phase noise metrology

February 25, 2014
Author(s)
Craig W. Nelson, Archita Hati, David A. Howe
Cross-spectral analysis is a mathematical tool for extracting the power spectral density of a correlated signal from two time series in the presence of uncorrelated interfering signals. We demonstrate and explain a set of conditions where the detection of

Supercontinuum generation in an on-chip silica waveguide

February 13, 2014
Author(s)
Scott A. Diddams, Dong Yoon Oh, David Sell, Hansuek Lee, Ki Youl Yang, Kerry J. Vahala
Supercontinuum generation is demonstrated in an on-chip silica spiral waveguide by launching 180-fs pulses from an optical parametric oscillator at the center wavelength 1330 nm. With a coupled pulse energy of 2.17 nJ, the broadest spectrum in the

High-accuracy measurement of the black-body radiation frequency shift of the ground-state hyperfine transition in 133 Cs

February 7, 2014
Author(s)
Steven R. Jefferts, Thomas P. Heavner, Thomas E. Parker, Jon H. Shirley, Elizabeth A. Donley, Neil Ashby
We report a high-accuracy direct measurement of the blackbody radiation shift (BBR) of 133Cs ground state hyperfine transition. This frequency shift is one of the largest systematic frequency biases encountered in realizing the current definition of the SI

Frequency Measurement

February 3, 2014
Author(s)
Michael A. Lombardi
An overview of frequency metrology, with emphasis on estimating accuracy and stability, oscillator types, and measurement instrumentation. It describes how to measure frequency and the statistics and terminology that are used to report the results. The

Head and Media Challenges for 3 Tb/in 2 Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording

February 3, 2014
Author(s)
Thomas J. Silva, Justin M. Shaw, Hans T. Nembach, Mike Mallary, Kumar Srinivasan, Gerado Bertero, Dan Wolf, Christian Kaiser, Michael Chaplin, Mahendra Pakala, Leng Qunwen, Yiming Wang, Carl Elliot, Lui Francis
A specific design for Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) at about 3Tb/in 2 (0.47 Tb/cm 2 or 4.7 Pb/m 2) is discussed in detail to highlight the challenges of MAMR and to contrast its requirements with conventional Perpendicular Magnetic Recording

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

February 3, 2014
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.

Time Measurement

February 3, 2014
Author(s)
Michael A. Lombardi
An overview of time metrology, with emphasis on time interval measurements, and time synchronization. It covers the evolution of clocks and timekeeping, time scales, the fundamentals of time measurement, and the various time transfer technique used to

Quantum teleportation from a telecom-wavelength photon to a solid-state quantum memory

January 28, 2014
Author(s)
Felix Bussieres, Christoph Clausen, Alexey Tiranov, Boris Korzh, Varun Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Francesco Marsili, Alban Ferrier, Harald Hermann, Christine Silberhorn, Wolfgang Sohler, Mikael Afzelius, Nicolas Gisin
In quantum teleportation [1], the state of a single quantum system is disembodied into classical information and purely quantum correlations, to be later reconstructed onto a second system that has never directly interacted with the first one. This

Comment on Detection of Microwave Spin Pumping Using the Inverse Spin Hall Effect

January 27, 2014
Author(s)
Thomas J. Silva, Mathias A. Weiler, Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw
In a recent Letter, Hahn et al. reported on the detection of an ac voltage in a yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/platinum (Pt) bilayer under the condition of parametrically excited resonance. The authors observe an ac voltage at the frequency of the magnetization

Optical phase-noise dynamics of Titanium:sapphire optical frequency combs

January 24, 2014
Author(s)
Qudsia Quraishi, Scott A. Diddams, Leo W. Hollberg
Stabilized optical frequency combs (OFC) can have remarkable levels of coherence across their broad spectral bandwidth. We study the scaling of the optical noise across hundreds of nanometers of optical spectra. We measure the residual phase noise between

Fast and Reliable Spectral Response Measurements of PV Cells Using Light Emitting Diodes

January 1, 2014
Author(s)
Behrang H. Hamadani, John F. Roller, Brian P. Dougherty, Howard W. Yoon
We present a measurement system for absolute differential spectral responsivity of solar cells based on high-powered LED arrays coupled to an optical light guide capable of large area illumination. Two different measurement techniques were developed and

Using and creating databases for data analysis in laser spectroscopy

January 1, 2014
Author(s)
Alexander Kramida
A brief review of existing atomic spectroscopy databases is given with an emphasis on databases relevant to laser spectroscopy research. Key data elements in these databases are described. A strategy of building a specialized relational database for laser

Dissipative production of a maximally entangled steady state of two quantum bits

December 19, 2013
Author(s)
John P. Gaebler, Yiheng Lin, Florentin Reiter, Ting Rei Tan, Ryan S. Bowler, Anders Sorensen, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Entangled states are a key resource in fundamental quantum physics, quantum cryptography, and quantum computation [1]. To date, controlled unitary interactions applied to a quantum system, so-called "quantum gates'', have been the most widely used method

High-Accuracy Measurements of the Vapor Pressure of Ice Referenced to the Triple Point

December 6, 2013
Author(s)
Katarzyna E. Bielska, Daniel K. Havey, Gregory E. Scace, D Lisak, Allan H. Harvey, Joseph T. Hodges
The vapor pressure of hexagonal (Ih) ice was measured over the temperature range 175 K to 253.4 K and referenced to the value at the triple point of water. This experiment combined a highly accurate humidity generation system containing an ice-coated

Phase inversion and collapse of the cross-spectral function

December 5, 2013
Author(s)
Craig W. Nelson, Archita Hati, David A. Howe
Cross-spectral analysis is a mathematical tool for extracting the power spectral density of a correlated signal from two time series in the presence of uncorrelated interfering signals. We demonstrate and explain a set of conditions where the detection of

Three-Corner Hat Analysis of the Stability of UTC and Various UTC(k)s

December 5, 2013
Author(s)
Thomas E. Parker
The stabilities of some local UTC time scales have recently improved dramatically with the increasing use of cesium or rubidium fountains as nearly always present frequency references. Along with time scales using maser ensembles, there are now a number of
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