An Assessment of the Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Located in Boulder, Colorado Fiscal Year 2023 (2024) / Chapter Skim
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2 Overview of the Physical Measurement Laboratory
2 Overview of the Physical Measurement Laboratory
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For example, it establishes spectroscopic methods and standards for infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X ray, and gamma-ray radiation. It also carries out research into the structure and dynamics of atoms, molecules, and biomolecules; it develops and improves the electrical, thermal, dimensional, mechanical, and physical metrology used to measure the properties of precision measurement devices and exploratory semiconductor, quantum electronic, nano-electronic, bioelectronic, bio-optical, optoelectronic, and quantum information devices and systems; and it studies the thermophysical and interfacial properties of streams of flowing fluids, fluid mixtures, and solids.
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The beneficiaries of its research and expertise are found throughout industry, academia, and government. The division includes the following seven individual research groups: Advanced Microwave Photonics Group Faint Photonics Group Magnetic Imaging Group Molecular and Biophotonics Group Quantitative Nanostructure Characterization Group Quantum Nanophotonics Group Sources and Detectors Group Specific areas of focus in the seven research groups include optical power measurements, quantum information, magnetic imaging, terahertz imaging research, research in optical frequency combs (used for precision time and frequency measurements)
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, which is achieved with a cesium fountain atomic clock. The division also develops and maintains other technologies related to the measurement of time and frequency, including a ytterbium optical lattice clock, an aluminum ion quantum logic clock, optical frequency combs, the quantum control of single molecular ions, quantum information processing with trapped ions, quantum simulation and sensing with large trapped-ion crystals, chip-scale wavelength references and clocks, and microresonator devices.
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2018. An Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2018.
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