Principles of calculating alignment signals in complex resonant optical interferometers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1597-1605

  Hefetz, Yaron ^a,b   Mavalvala, Nergis ^a   Sigg, Daniel ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Elscint Nuclear Medicine Division R and D Dept   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gravitational wave observatories; Laser interferometer; LIGO; Misalignment of Gaussian beams; Mode decomposition; Optical cavities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031498008     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.001597     Document Type: Article

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