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Physics

Optical physics and communications

News and Updates

Projects and Programs

skin reflectance graphs

Reflectance Measurements of Human Skin

Ongoing
The purpose of this human subjects study is to collect high-quality measurements of the reflectance spectrum of human skin and assess the variability across the
photonic calorimeter/dosimeter

Photonic Dosimetry

Ongoing
As part of the NIST on a Chip program, the Photonic Dosimetry project is developing in-situ sub-micrometer ionizing-radiation dosimetry and calorimetry leading

Publications

Fiber-coupled 2 mL vacuum-gap Fabry-Perot reference cavity for laser stabilization

Author(s)
Charles McLemore, Naijun Jin, Megan Kelleher, Yizhi Luo, Dahyeon Lee, Yifan Liu, Takuma Nakamura, David Mason, Peter Rakich, Scott Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan
Vacuum-gap Fabry-Perot cavities are indispensable tools for vastly improving the frequency stability of lasers, with applications across a diverse range of

Software

HolograFREE

An electron hologram is a fringe modulated image containing the amplitude and phase information of an electron transparent object. The HolograFREE routines

Modeled integrated scatter tool (MIST)

The MIST program has been developed to provide users with a general application to model an integrated scattering system. The program performs an integration of

Tools and Instruments

Transfer spectrophotometer

A Perkin-Elmer Lambda 1050 spectrophotometer is used to complement the reference reflectance and transmittance instruments. It performs this function by

Awards