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Advanced infrared radiometry and imaging
Last Modified: 09/29/2015 Radiation thermometers and blackbodies can be calibrated using a set of blackbodies. These blackbodies can vary in size and can be fixed-points of … more
Aluminum Oxide Photodetector Transfer Standard
Last Modified: 09/03/2015 Aluminum oxide (Al 2 O 3 ) photodiodes are issued by NIST as transfer standard detectors in the extreme ultraviolet spectral region (5 nm to 125 … more
Aperture area measurement facility
Last Modified: 12/15/2011 NIST has established an absolute aperture area measurement facility for circular and near-circular apertures use in radiometric instruments. The … more
Beamline 1: Degradation of EUV filters and mirrors
Last Modified: 10/02/2015 Beamline 1 separates a swath of light from the synchrotron into two parts. The first part is collected in Beamline 1a by a normal-incidence … more
Beamline 10: Electron beam imaging
Last Modified: 03/25/2015 Beamline 10 of the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility is a diagnostics end-station used to determine the transverse size of the stored … more
Beamline 2: Spectrometer Calibrations
Last Modified: 08/25/2015 Absolute irradiance calibrations based on the calculability of synchrotron radiation are performed on beamline 2. See GOES-R/EXIS and SDO as … more
Beamline 3: Center for Advanced Synchrotron Radiation-Based Metrology
Last Modified: 09/22/2015 Streamlining Detector-based Radiometry at SURF III NIST has maintained the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF) for nearly 6 decades … more
Beamline 4: Ultraviolet Optical Properties and Calibrations
Last Modified: 09/01/2015 Beamline 4 is a general purpose radiometric beamline consists of a 2 m monochromator to disperse radiation from SURF III. An Absolute Cryogenic … more
Beamline 5: Electron beam imaging
Last Modified: 08/20/2015 Beamline 5 of the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility is a diagnostics end-station used to determine the transverse size of the stored … more
Beamline 7: EUV reflectometry
Last Modified: 09/22/2015 The NIST/DARPA EUV Reflectometry facility began in the late 1980's to make measurements of the reflectivity of EUV multilayer optics for … more
Beamline 8: EUV Surface Chemistry & Lifetime
Last Modified: 09/04/2015 The purpose of the end station on Beamline 8 at the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility (SURF III) is to study the degradation of materials … more
Bidirectional optical scattering facility
Last Modified: 11/28/2014 Goniometric optical scatter instrument (GOSI) The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) quantifies the angular distribution of … more
BMDO transfer radiometer (BXR)
Last Modified: 09/30/2015 NIST developed the BMDO transfer radiometer (BXR) to calibrate small-aperture blackbodies for the test facilities of the Missile Defense Agency … more
Color and appearance metrology facility
Last Modified: 01/08/2015 The NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory has established the color and appearance metrology facility to support calibration services for 0°/45° … more
Complete hemispherical infrared laser-based reflectometer (CHILR)
Last Modified: 07/27/2015 A custom instrument, the Complete Hemispherical infrared Laser-based Reflectometer (CHILR), employs a gold integrating sphere and is used for the … more |
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