Measurement of position and orientation of optical elements in interferometric gravity wave detectors

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3197-3205

  Heitmann, Henrich ^a   Drezen, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; GRAVITY WAVES; LASER BEAMS; MIRRORS; MOTION CONTROL; POSITION MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION;

INTERFEROMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTOR; MASS ORIENTATION; MIRROR PENDULAR MOTION; OPTICAL CAVITY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 0031208042     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1148267     Document Type: Article

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