Notice2024-20534
Massachusetts Institute of Technology et al.; Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
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September 11, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 176 (Wednesday, September 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73632-73633]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-20534]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Massachusetts Institute of Technology et al.; Notice of Decision
on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
This is a decision pursuant to section 6(c) of the Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of
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1966 (Pub. L. 89-651, as amended by Pub. L. 106-36; 80 Stat. 897; 15
CFR part 301). OnJuly 25, 2024, the Department of Commerce published a
notice in the Federal Register requesting public comment on whether
instruments of equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which
the instruments identified in the docket(s) below are intended to be
used, are being manufactured in the United States. See Application(s)
for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments, 89 FR60354-55, July 25,
2024 (Notice). We received no public comments.
Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. We know of no
instruments of equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments
described below, for such purposes as this is intended to be used, that
were being manufactured in the United States at the time of order.
Docket Number: 24-010. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02114. Instrument:
Fiber Laser. Manufacturer: PreciLasers, China. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to study Potassium 40 atoms that are fermionic
alkali atoms; their alkali electronic structure makes them straight-
forward to trap and manipulate using lasers. The potassium 40 atoms
will first be cooled sympathetically by sodium 23 atoms, then
transferred into a series of optical traps, which will use the lasers
ordered from PreciLasers. The final optical trap will be a 2D square
optical lattice, where additional optical potentials and magnetic
fields will be applied, and the response of the atoms observed through
a microscope.
Docket Number: 24-012.Applicant: The University of Texas at Austin,
BEG--JJ Pickle Research Campus, 10100 Burnet Road, Building 130,
Austin, TX 78758.
Instrument: Ocean Alpha SL20-Autonomous Survey Boat. Manufacturer:
Ocean Alpha Group Ltd., China. Intended Use: According to the
applicant, the instrument is intended to be used as an unmanned surface
vehicle (USV) that is designed to survey the depths of inland waters
where it is not accessible for UT Austin staff. USV will have
complimentary use of the in-house airborne lidar system (Lecia
Chiroptera-5) where lidar derived depths require verification. UT
Austin staff will be able to deploy the USV from a shoreline, and
control it remotely, with safety.
Docket Number: 24-017.Applicant: State University of New York at
Stony Brook, 100 Nicolls Road, 230 Admin Building, Stony Brook, NY
11794. Instrument: 556 nm high power, narrow linewidth laser.
Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd., China.
Intended Use: According to the applicant, the instrument is intended to
be used in a quantum optics apparatus using Ytterbium atoms in an
ultrahigh vacuum environment. The experiment will laser cool and trap
single Ytterbium atoms and interface them with single photons in an
optical cavity. The importance is the long-lived clock states of
Ytterbium atoms, as well as the hyperfine ground states, both of which
are excellent to use as qubits in a quantum device and store quantum
information for a long time.
Docket Number: 24-018. Applicant: Harvard University, 17 Oxford
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Instrument: Single Frequency Fiber Laser.
Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd., China.
Intended Use: According to the applicant, the instrument is intended to
be used to explore methods of taking full control of the internal and
external degrees of freedom of single diatomic molecules (calcium
monofluoride, CaF) for various quantum applications. The interest is in
quantum simulation of lattice-spin models using CaF molecules trapped
in an optical tweezer array. To load CaF molecules into an optical
tweezer array, they must be first laser slowed and laser cooled to very
low temperature and high density. The laser cooling transition used
here is one of the only two desired strong electronic transitions in
CaF molecules that possesses a diagonal Frank-Condon factor which
supports scattering many photons with reasonable number of repump
lasers. This laser system will be used to perform the above work in a
research laboratory in the Department of Physics at Harvard University.
The research work enabled by this system is part of the training of
graduate students, undergraduate students, and postdoctoral research
fellows.
Docket Number: 24-019. Applicant: Harvard University, Department of
Physics, 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Instrument: Fiber
Laser. Manufacturer Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd., China.
Intended Use: According to the applicant, the instrument is intended to
be used for Ytterbium (Yb) atom's dipolar interaction. When Yb atoms
excite their Rydberg states, there will be a strong dipolar interaction
between the atoms. This interaction is also long-range. The main
techniques used will be a) ultra-high vacuum techniques and b) laser
stabilization techniques.The instrument will be used to educate
undergraduate and graduate students.
Dated: September 5, 2024.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies and Economic Analysis, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-20534 Filed 9-10-24; 8:45 am]
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