Automatic beam alignment in the Garching 30-m prototype of a laser-interferometric gravitational wave detector

Optics Communications

Volumn 160, Issue 4-6, 1999, Pages 321-334

  Heinzel, G ^a   Rudiger A ^a   Schilling, R ^a   Strain, K ^a   Winkler, W ^a   Mizuno, J ^a   Danzmann, K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

04.80.Nn; 07.60.Ly; 42.25.Hz; 95.55.Ym; Automatic beam alignment; Differential wavefront sensing; External modulation; Michelson interferometer; Power recycling; Schnupp modulation

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; PHOTODETECTORS; SERVOMECHANISMS; WAVEFRONTS;

AUTOMATIC BEAM ALIGNMENT; LASER-INTERFEROMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER; SCHNUPP MODULATION;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0033075729     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(98)00654-3     Document Type: Article

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