Generation of a flat-top laser beam for gravitational wave detectors by means of a nonspherical Fabry-Perot resonator

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 6648-6654

  Tarallo, Marco G ^a,b   Miller, John ^b,c   Agresti, J ^a,b   D'Ambrosio, E ^b   DeSalvo, R ^b   Forest, D ^d   Lagrange, B ^d   Mackowsky, J M ^d   Michel, C ^d   Montorio, J L ^d   Morgado, N ^d   Pinard, L ^d   Remilleux, A ^d   Simoni, B ^a,b   Willems, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d Lyon Medicine University   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETRY; RESONATORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL NOISE;

FABRY-PEROT RESONATOR; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTORS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 34548139504     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006648     Document Type: Article

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