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A Low-Power, High-Sensitivity Micromachined Optical Magnetometer

December 11, 2012
Author(s)
Rahul R. Mhaskar, Svenja A. Knappe, John E. Kitching
We demonstrate a fiber-optically coupled optical magnetometer based on a microfabricated 87Rb vapor cell in a micromachined silicon sensor head. The cell is optically heated with light at 1.5 mm brought to the cell through an optical fiber and absorbed by

Single bead detection with a NMR micro capillary probe

December 6, 2012
Author(s)
Yoshihiro Nakashima, Michael A. Boss, Stephen E. Russek, John M. Moreland
We have developed a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) microcapillary probe for the detection of single magnetic microbeads. The geometry of the probe has been optimized so that the signal from the background water has a similar magnitude compared to the

Phase-Noise Measurement System for the Terahertz-Band

November 30, 2012
Author(s)
Jason A. DeSalvo, Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, David A. Howe
We present initial phase noise measurements in support of terahertz electronics, in the frequency range generally regarded as 0.1 to 10 THz. Using digital phase noise measurement techniques and an even-harmonic mixer, we achieve a phase noise measurement

Determination of the 5d6s 3D1 state lifetime and blackbody radiation clock shift in Yb

November 29, 2012
Author(s)
Kyle P. Beloy, Jeffrey A. Sherman, Nathan D. Lemke, Nathan M. Hinkley, Christopher W. Oates, Andrew D. Ludlow
The Stark shift of the ytterbium optical clock transition due to room temperature blackbody radiation is dominated by a static Stark effect, which was recently measured to high accuracy [J. A. Sherman et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 153002 (2012)]. However

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

A COLD-ATOM CLOCK BASED ON COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING

November 26, 2012
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Donley, Francois-Xavier R. Esnault, Eric M. Blanshan, John E. Kitching
A compact cold-atom clock based on coherent population trapping is being developed. The clock aims to ultimately achieve a timing uncertainty of a few nanoseconds per day. Here we present an initial evaluation of the three main systematic frequency shifts

Enabling accurate differential calibration of modern GPS receivers

November 26, 2012
Author(s)
Stefania Romisch, Victor S. Zhang, Thomas E. Parker, Steven R. Jefferts
The difference between the local time reference and a GNSS receiver's internal time base is an essential contributor to the calibration of that receiver when used as a timing device. In the past, in the absence of a PPS output signal provided by the

GPS Carrier-Phase Time Transfer Boundary Discontinuity Investigation

November 26, 2012
Author(s)
Jian Yao, Judah Levine
We report on a study of the carrier-phase time transfer boundary discontinuity by the use of the precise point positioning (PPP) technique. Carrier-phase time transfer is first compared with two-way satellite time and frequency transfer (TWSTFT) between

In Search of a New Primary GPS Receiver for NIST

November 26, 2012
Author(s)
Marc A. Weiss
A previous publication showed problems with the current NIST Time and Frequency Division primary GPS receiver [1] when used for Precise Point Positioning (PPP)-based carrier phase time transfer. We confirm that, for this receiver, boundary discontinuities

Measurement of the velocity of the neutrino with MINOS

November 26, 2012
Author(s)
Stefania Romisch, P Adamson, Neil Ashby, G. Barr, M. Bishal, A. Blake, G. J. Bock, D. Bogert, Russell Bumgarner, S. V. Cao, S. Childress, M. Christensen, J. Coelho, L. Corwin, D. Cronin-Hennessy, J. K. de Jong, N. E. Devenish, M. V. Diwan, C. O. Escobar, J. J. Evans, E. Falk, G. J. Feldman, C. Flores, Blair Fonville, M. V. Frohne, H. R. Gallager, A. Gavrilenko, R. A. Gomes, P. Gouffon, N. Graf, R. Gran, K. Grzelak, A. Habig, J. Hartnell, R. Hatcher, Jonathan Hirschauer, A. Holin, J. Hylen, G M. Irwin, Z. isvan, C. James, Steven R. Jefferts, D. Jensen, T. Kafka, S. M. Kasahara, G. Koizumi, M. Kordosky, A. Kreymer, K. Lang, J. Ling, P. J. Litchfield, P. Lucas, W. A. Mann, M. L. Marshak, M. Mathis, Demetrios Matsakis, N. Mayer, Angela Mckinley, M. M. Medeiros, R. Mehdiyev, J. R. Meier, B. Mercurio, M. D. Messier, W. H. Miller, S. R. Mishra, S. Moed Sher, C. D. Moore, L. Mualem, J. A. Musser, J. K. Nelson, H. Newman, R. J. Nichol, J. A. Nowak, J. C. O'Conner, W. P. Oliver, M. Orchanian, R. B. Pahlka, J. Paley, Thomas E. Parker, R. B. Patterson, G. Pawloski, S. PhanBudd, R. K. Plunkett, N. Poonthattatil, Ed Powers, X. Qiu, A. Radovic, B. Rebel, C. Rosenfeld, H. A. Rubin, M. C. Sanchez, J. Schneps, P Schireiner, A. Schreckenberger, R. Sharma, A, Sousa, N. Tagg, R, L. Talaga, J. Thomas, M. A. Thomson, X. Tian, S. C. Tognini, R. Toner, D. Torretta, G. Tzanakos, J. Urheim, P. Vahel, A. Webber, R. C. Webb, C. White, L. H. Whitehead, L. Whitehead, K. P. Wilson, S. G. Wojcicki, J. Wright, Victor S. Zhang, R. Zwaska
The MINOS experiment uses a beam of predominantly muon-type neutrinos generated using protons from the Main Injector at Fermilab in Batavia, IL and travelling 735 km through the Earth to a disused iron mine in Soudan, MN. The 10 us-long beam pulse contains

Recent Calibrations of UTC(NIST) and UTC(USNO)

November 26, 2012
Author(s)
Victor S. Zhang, Thomas E. Parker, Russell Bumgarner, Jonathan Hirschauer, Angela Mckinley, Stephen Mitchell, Ed Powers, Jim Skinner, Demetrios Matsakis
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) use GPS common-view, carrier-phase time transfer and Two Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT, also known as TWSTT) techniques in our time

Replicating UTC(NIST) at Remote Sites

November 26, 2012
Author(s)
Michael A. Lombardi, Andrew N. Novick, J. Mauricio Lopez-Romero, Rodrigo Ramos
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is deploying disciplined oscillators that are referenced to the UTC(NIST) time scale through common-view observations of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. We present measurement results

Synchronization between remote sites for the MINOS experiment

November 26, 2012
Author(s)
Stefania Romisch, Steven R. Jefferts, Victor S. Zhang, Thomas E. Parker, Neil Ashby, P Adamson, G. Barr, A. Habig, J Meier, C. James, R. Nicol, R. Plunkett, C. Rosenfeld, Russell Bumgarner, M. Christensen, Jonathan Hirschauer, Blair Fonville, Demetrios Matsakis, Ed Powers, J. Wright, Angela Mckinley
In the context of time-of-flight measurements, the timing at the departure and arrival locations is obviously critical to the outcome of the experiment. In the case of neutrino time-of-flight experiments, the locations are many hundreds of kilometers apart

Ultra-low noise regenerative frequency divider

November 11, 2012
Author(s)
Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, Corey A. Barnes, Danielle G. Lirette, Jason A. DeSalvo, David A. Howe
We designed ultra-low noise regenerative divider-by-2 circuits that operate at input frequencies of 20 MHz and 10 MHz. We achieved residual output-referred single-sideband phase noise below -162 dBc/Hz at 10 Hz offset for a single divider at these

The Need for a Robust, Precise Time and Frequency Alternative to GNSS

November 1, 2012
Author(s)
Michael A. Lombardi, Mitch Narins, Per Enge, Ben Peterson, Sherman Lo, Yu-Hsuan Chen, Dennis Akos
Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) services are key enablers of both essential safety and security applications and economically beneficial capacity and efficiency applications worldwide. Whether users are ground-based, sea-based or in the air

Quasianalytical modal approach for computing Casimir interactions in periodic nanostructures

October 3, 2012
Author(s)
Francesco Intravaia, Paul S. Davids, Ricardo Decca, Vladimir Aksyuk, Daniel Lopez, Diego A. Dalvit
We present an almost fully analytical technique for computing Casimir interactions between 1D periodic lamellar gratings based on a modal approach. Our method improves on previous work on Casimir modal approaches for nanostructures by using the exact form
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