Interferometric testbed for nanometer level stabilization of environmental motion over long time scales

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 6832-6841

  Numata, Kenji ^a,b   Camp, Jordan ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; STABILIZATION; TESTBEDS;

ACTIVE STABILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; FREQUENCY STABILIZED LASERS; INTERFEROMETRIC SENSOR; INTERFEROMETRIC TEST-BED; LASER INTERFEROMETER SPACE ANTENNA; NANOMETER LEVEL; SENSITIVE MEASUREMENT;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 60949091034     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.006832     Document Type: Article

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