Optical mode cleaner with suspended mirrors

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1446-1453

  Araya, Akito ^a   Mio, Norikatsu ^a   Tsubono, Kimio ^a   Suehiro, Koya ^b   Telada, Souichi ^b   Ohashi, Masatake ^c   Fujimoto, Masa Katsu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fabry Perot cavity; Gravitational wave detector; Interferometer; Mode cleaner

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007863255     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001446     Document Type: Article

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