Progress in developing the modular gravitational reference sensor

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 873, Issue , 2006, Pages 515-521

  Sun, Ke Xun ^a   Allen, Graham ^a   Buchman, Saps ^a   Byer, Robert L ^a   Conklin, John W ^a   Debra, Dan B ^a   Gill, Dale ^a   Goh, Allex ^a   Higuchi, Sei ^a   Lu, Patrick ^a   Robertson, Norna A ^a   Swank, Aaron J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravitational reference sensor; GRS; Interforometry; LED; LISA; Modular; UV

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845645104     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2405093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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