Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have conducted the first demonstration of a faster and more accurate way to calibrate certain kinds of microphones. The ...

Terrestrial Laser Scanners (TLSs) are instrumental in capturing high-density three-dimensional data used across geoscience, engineering, architecture, and industrial inspection. Accurate calibration ...

A tiny device for calibrating or stabilizing precision lasers has been designed and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The prototype device could replace ...

Microphone calibration is an important issue for noise monitoring stations, sound power measurement systems and audiometric equipment, among other applications. Traditional calibration methods can ...

The Air Force Metrology and Calibration Division is using some unique mobile “Big Bertha” series High Energy Laser primary reference calorimeters to support Air Force Research Laboratory’s national ...

Renishaw advances technology in laser interferometer calibration with the "lean design" XL-80 system. The new design allows a 4X faster slew rate and a 10X higher dynamic data capture rate in a ...

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Researchers have conducted the first demonstration of a faster and more accurate way to calibrate certain kinds of microphones. The technique, which uses lasers to measure the velocity at which a ...