Longitudinal control of an interferometer for the detection of gravitational waves

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 214, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 112-122

  Flaminio, Raffaele ^a   Heitmann, Henrich ^b  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Gravitational waves; Interferometry; VIRGO

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER BEAMS; LONGITUDINAL CONTROL;

ERROR SIGNAL; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; INCIDENT LASER; RELATIVE DISTANCES; VIRGO;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 0000601656     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(96)00136-3     Document Type: Article

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