Sentences with phrase «precision spectroscopy»

April 13, 2018 - Ensembles of atoms, trapped as vapors in small cells, are exquisitely sensitive to external fields or perturbations, and many sensor devices already use light, and specifically precision spectroscopy, to probe the quantum states of such ensembles...

But a few researchers, most notably Theodor W. Hänsch of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, had faith that mode - locked lasers could one day be a useful tool for high - precision spectroscopy and metrology.

High - resolution measurements were the domain of specialists in precision spectroscopy and optical frequency metrology, wherein highly stable CW lasers reigned as the preferred tools.

We present a general technique for precision spectroscopy of atoms that lack suitable transitions for efficient laser cooling, internal state preparation, and detection.

Coupling an ion that can be cooled by lasers to one that can not allows high - precision spectroscopy of any element and can provide atomic clocks.

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The Halo uses top and bottom sensor banks to view each object «in flight» using a combination of LED, CCD camera and NIR to perform targeted spectroscopy with 1 mm precision.

The observation was made by adding electrons to this material and then studying its band structure with a high precision, advanced spectroscopy technique.

This narrow spectral band characteristic is one of the main requirements for the laser module needed for spectroscopy of the rubidium atoms and the associated precision measurements.

Providing high gain on such a small footprint could enable new opportunities in low cost broadband spectroscopy, precision manufacturing and hyperspectral imaging.

Steele and colleagues used Raman spectroscopy — a technique that scatters laser light off a substance to identify its structure and chemical make - up — to pinpoint the MMC in the rocks with a precision of around 360 nanometres.

Frequency combs are powerful tools for high - precision measurements and spectroscopy.

This type of laser spectroscopy provides a means of determining the values of constants of nature with extremely high precision.

The concepts of rotation and angular momentum play a crucial role in many areas of physics, ranging from nuclear spectroscopy to molecular collisions and precision measurements.

In a UC Berkeley lab staffed mostly by students, Townes moved on again to pioneer the field of infrared astronomy, essentially looking at sources of heat in outer space, and precision infrared spectroscopy.

For these studies we use the high - precision time - resolved Hubble Space Telescope near - infrared spectroscopy and Spitzer Space Telescope photometry in multiple programs.

From high - resolution spectroscopy of the star we estimate a stellar effective temperature of Teff = 6100 + / - 150 K, and from high - precision z and B photometry of the transit we constrain the ratio of the semi-major axis and the stellar radius to be a / R = 6.03 + / - 0.13.

Scientists first began widely using laser frequency combs as precision rulers in the late 1990s in fields like metrology and spectroscopy; for their work, the technology's developers (John L. Hall of JILA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Theodor Hänsch of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilians University Munich) were awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005.