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News and Updates

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Propelling Cyber Technologies Forward

The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) hosted a webinar at this year’s CyberWeek festival revolving around getting the best cybersecurity technologies to the
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Focused on the Future of Manufacturing

The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) at NIST attended and hosted three webinars at this year’s CyberWeek festival, which virtually brought together the

Publications

Calibration of free-space and fiber-coupled single-photon detectors

Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Alan L. Migdall, Joshua C. Bienfang, John H. Lehman, Sae Woo Nam, Oliver T. Slattery, Jolene D. Splett, Igor Vayshenker, Chih-Ming Wang
We present our measurements of the detection efficiency of free-space and fiber-coupled single- photon detectors at wavelengths near 851 nm and 1533.6 nm. We

Training Excellence: What Does Success Look Like?

Author(s)
Carol T. Hockert, Georgia L. Harris
The National Institute of Standards, Office of Weights and Measures has been working the last few years toward compliance with several educational standards in

PDH-locked, frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectrometer

Author(s)
Joseph T. Hodges, A. Cygan, Piotr Maslowski, Katarzyna E. Bielska, S. Wojtewicz, J. Domyslawska, Hisashi Abe, R.S. Trawinski, R. Ciurylo
We describe a high sensitivity and high spectral resolution laser absorption spectrometer based upon the frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS

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