Abstract
The future of pressure, vacuum and even temperature measurement will employ lasers, Fabry-Perot optical cavities, cold atom traps and lots of quantum physics. For pressure measurement of a gas, photons interact at the quantum level such that light travels at a slower speed in gas than it does in vacuum. For extreme vacuum measurements, cold atom traps will be used to detect single collisions between gas trapped cold atoms enabling the number density of the gas to be measured. For temperature measurement is performed using silicon photonics to detect the small changes in refractive index in micro machined siliconphontoic cavities coupled to optical fibers. For dynamic pressure, NIST is developing a method where the unique quantum mechanical characteristics of the molecules are themselves the standard for pressure, making it consistent with the quantum-SI. Our approach is to use independent molecular spectroscopy as a dynamic measurement of pressure, where the pressure and temperature is ascertained by measuring time-resolved pressure-broadened spectra of CO molecules. This paper briefly reviews the status of these projects currently underway at the NIST Thermodynamic Metrology Group.
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