Sapphire beamsplitters and test masses for advanced laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 218, Issue 3-6, 1996, Pages 197-206

  Ju, L ^a   Notcutt, M ^a   Blair, D ^a   Bondu, F ^b   Zhao, C N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; SAPPHIRE; SIGNAL DETECTION; THERMAL NOISE;

BIREFRINGENCE EFFECTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; LASER INTERFEROMETER;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0042877843     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(96)00434-3     Document Type: Article

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