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Microcombs – chip-scale devices that generate and measure frequencies of light with exquisite accuracy – have transformed timekeeping and boosted optical
For several years, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been building a robotically operated moonlight
Frequency combs — specialized lasers that act like rulers to measure light — are now being brought down to a low-power, chip-scale form. NIST researchers David
Building on a successful first-year Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives (SERI) project NIST and Autonomous Vehicles (see 2022 NIST AV workshop and
Photographs, or optical light images, are spatial records of light reflected or emitted from objects. Thus, they are prospective light measurements. In many
NIST cooperates with the three services (Air Force, Navy, and Army) to realize a uniform night vision goggle (NVG) calibration system with low measurement
B. Carol Johnson, Giuseppe Zibordi, Ewa Kwiatkowska, Kenneth Voss, Frederic Melin, David Antoine, Menghua Wang, Shuguo Chen, Constant Mazeran, Brian Barnes, Jee-Eun Min
System Vicarious Calibration (SVC) is the technique that maximizes the accuracy of satellite ocean colour data products by minimizing the impact of inaccuracies
This is a report for Inter-agency agreement 693KA9-18-N-00023 "Maximum Luminous Intensity for LED Signaling in an Airport Environment" by Federal Aviation
Craig R. Copeland, Adam L. Pintar, Ronald G. Dixson, Ashish Chanana, Kartik Srinivasan, Daron Westly, Robert Ilic, Marcelo Davanco, Samuel M. Stavis
In a popular integration process for quantum information technologies, localization microscopy of quantum emitters guides lithographic placement of photonic
This page provides information on firmware/software used at NIST to phase-lock a frequency comb. The firmware/software operates with hardware that was developed
SCATMECH is an object-oriented C++ class library developed to distribute models for light scattering applications. Included in the library are models for
Although significant work has been done to characterize collinear phase matching and to present many of its applications, noncollinear phase matching in both
The Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility SURF III is operated by the Optical Radiation Group as a stable light source for radiometry and research. SURF
The basic SIRCUS calibration setup is shown at the right. The output from a tunable laser is sent through an intensity stabilizer, then through a 'speckle