Mass center determination by optical sensing of velocity modulation

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 873, Issue , 2006, Pages 566-570

  Conklin, John W ^a   Sun, Ke Xun ^b   DeBra, Dan B ^a  

^a 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Center of mass; Grag free; LISA; Optical sensing; STEP

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845604527     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2405100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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