Method for compensation of thermally induced modal distortions in the input optical components of gravitational wave interferometers

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1793-1801

  Mueller, Guido ^a   Amin, Rupal S ^a   Guagliardo, Dave ^a   McFeron, Donovan ^a   Lundock, Ramsey ^a   Reitze, David H ^a   Tanner, D B ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0036277260     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/19/7/376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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