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A 13.56 MHz RF discharge in hydrogen was studied within the pressure range of 1-17 10 Pa, and at power range of 400-1000 W. The electron energy distribution function and 18 electron density were measured by a Langmuir probe. The gas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 J Krištof , A Annušová , M Anguš , P. Veis , X Yang , T Angot , P. Roubin , G. Cartry

We have constructed a Fourier-transform spectrometer (FTS) operating between 50 and 330 GHz with minimum volume (355 x260 x64 mm) and weight (13 lbs) while maximizing optical throughput (100 $\mathrm{mm}^2$ sr) and optimizing the spectral…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Zhaodi Pan , Mira Liu , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Bradford A. Benson , Dale J. Fixsen , Hazal Goksu , Eleanor Rath , Stephan S. Meyer

In recent years, interesting materials have emerged which are only available as micron-scale flakes, and whose novel physics might be better understood through broadband microwave spectroscopy; examples include twisted bilayer graphene [1],…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Antonio Levy , Neil Zimmerman

The best performance of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer is achieved with the input state |N_T/2 + 1>|N_T/2-1 > + |N_T/2 - 1>|N_T/2+1>, being N_T the total number of atoms/photons. This gives: i) a phase-shift error confidence C_{68%}=2.67/N_T…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luca Pezze' , Augusto Smerzi

Cold atom interferometers have matured to a powerful tool in fundamental physics research, and they are currently on their way from realizations in the laboratory to applications in the real world. The radio frequency (RF) generator is an…

We describe a method for spectral cleaning and timing calibration of short voltage time series data from individual radio interferometer receivers. It makes use of the phase differences in Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) spectra across antenna…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Corstanje , S. Buitink , J. E. Enriquez , H. Falcke , J. R. Hörandel , M. Krause , A. Nelles , J. P. Rachen , P. Schellart , O. Scholten , S. ter Veen , S. Thoudam , T. N. G. Trinh

Atom interferometry has become one of the most powerful technologies for precision measurements. To develop simple, precise, and versatile atom interferometers for inertial sensing, we demonstrate an atom interferometer measuring…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Xuejian Wu , Fei Zi , Jordan Dudley , Ryan J. Bilotta , Philip Canoza , Holger Müller

We perform broadband phase sensitive measurements of the reflection coefficient from 45 MHz up to 20 GHz employing a vector network analyzer with a 2.4 mm coaxial sensor which is terminated by the sample under test. While the material…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-12 Elvira Ritz , Martin Dressel

We present a setup to perform sub shot noise measurements of the phase quadrature for intense pulsed light without the use of a separate local oscillator. A Mach--Zehnder interferometer with an unbalanced arm length is used to detect the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Glöckl , U. L. Andersen , S. Lorenz , Ch. Silberhorn , N. Korolkova , G. Leuchs

Nonlinear interferometers allow for mid-infrared spectroscopy with near-infrared detection using correlated photons. Previous implementations have demonstrated a spectral resolution limited by spectrally selective detection. In our work, we…

Displacement measuring interferometry is a crucial component in metrology applications. In this paper, we propose a fiber-based two-wavelength heterodyne interferometer as a compact and highly sensitive displacement sensor that can be used…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-09 Yanqi Zhang , Felipe Guzman

Millimeter wave (mmWave) systems can enable high data rates if the link between the transmitting and receiving radios is configured properly. Fast configuration of mmWave links, however, is challenging due to the use of large antenna arrays…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Nitin Jonathan Myers , Amine Mezghani , Robert W. Heath

Wavelength stability of free-electron lasers (FELs) is one of the important parameters for various applications. In this paper we describe two different methods to diagnose the wavelength stability of a mid-infrared (MIR) FEL. The first one…

We have measured quantum interference between two single microwave photons trapped in a superconducting resonator, whose frequencies are initially about 6 GHz apart. We accomplish this by use of a parametric frequency conversion process…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 François Nguyen , Eva Zakka-Bajjani , Raymond W. Simmonds , José Aumentado

Operating atom-interferometer gyroscopes outside a laboratory environment is challenging primarily owing to the instability of laser systems. To enhance the thermal stability of free-space laser systems, a compact laser system using fiber…

We demonstrate a Raman laser system based on phase modulation technology and phase feedback control. The two laser beams with frequency difference of 6.835 GHz are modulated using electro-optic and acousto-optic modulators, respectively.…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-08 Wei Li , Xiong Pan , Ningfang Song , Xiaobin Xu , Xiangxiang Lu

The millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequency band provides exciting prospects for quantum science and devices, since many high-fidelity quantum emitters, including Rydberg atoms, molecules and silicon vacancies, exhibit resonances near 100 GHz.…

Laser-plasma based experiments are always more demanding about the plasma features which need to be generated during the interaction. This is valid for laser-plasma acceleration as well as for inertial confinement fusion experiments. Most…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 F. Filippi , M. Cipriani , S. Mastrostefano , M. Scisciò , F. Consoli

We demonstrate a multipurpose microwave frequency identification solution that is implemented based on a photonic integrated chip and is able to identify different types of microwave signals, including single-frequency, multiple-frequency,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 Xu Wang , Feng Zhou , Dingshan Gao , Jinran Qie , Xi Xiao , Jianji Dong , Xinliang Zhang

We present a new method for accurate mid-infrared frequency measurements and stabilization to a near-infrared ultra-stable frequency reference, transmitted with a long-distance fibre link and continuously monitored against state-of-the-art…