Low frequency facility, R&D experiment of the VIRGO project

Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 172-178

  Benabid, F ^a,b   Chickarmane, V ^a   Di Virgilio, A ^a   Fiorentino, M ^c   Gaddi, A ^a   LaPenna, P ^a   Losurdo, G ^a   Passuello, D ^a   Vicere A ^a  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; GRAVITY WAVES; LASER APPLICATIONS; MIRRORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL NOISE; TRANSDUCERS;

DISPLACEMENT TRANSDUCER; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ANTENNAS; LOW FREQUENCY FACILITY; VIRGO INTERFEROMETER;

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0033734233     PISSN: 14644266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4266/2/2/319     Document Type: Article

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