[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 143 (Thursday, July 25, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60354-60355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16409]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Massachusetts Institute of Technology, et al.; Application(s) for 
Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

    Pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific and 
Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-651, as amended 
by Pub. L. 106-36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301), we invite comments 
on the question of whether instruments of equivalent scientific value, 
for the purposes for which the instruments shown below are intended to 
be used, are being manufactured in the United States.
    Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the 
regulations and be postmarked on or before August 14, 2024. Address 
written comments to Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 41006, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Please also email a copy 
of those comments to [email protected].
    Docket Number: 24-010. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02114. Instrument: 
Fiber Laser. China. Manufacturer: PreciLasers, China. Intended Use: 
According to the applicant, the instrument is intended to be used for 
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. Justification 
for Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant, there are no 
instruments of the same general category manufactured in the United 
States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 20, 
2024.
    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. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: 
According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the same 
general category manufactured in the United States. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 18, 2024.
    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. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: 
According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the same 
general category manufactured in the United States. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 22, 2024.
    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

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(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. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: 
According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the same 
general category manufactured in the United States. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 4, 2024.
    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. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: 
According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the same 
general category manufactured in the United States. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 12, 2024.

    Dated: July 22, 2024.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies and Economic Analysis, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-16409 Filed 7-24-24; 8:45 am]
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