Advanced LIGO: Non-Gaussian beams

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  D'Ambrosio, Erika ^a   O'Shaugnessy, Richard ^a   Thorne, Kip ^a   Willems, Phil ^a   Strigin, Sergey ^b   Vyatchanin, Sergey ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 1642357634     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/21/5/074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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