Stabilized lasers for advanced gravitational wave detectors

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 780-794

  Willke, Benno ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gravitational wave detectors; High power single mode solid state lasers; Laser stabilization

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; LASER STABILIZATION; LASER SYSTEMS; OUTPUT POWER; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; STABILIZED LASERS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL STABILITY;

DETECTORS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODES; LASERS; STABILIZATION; STREAM FLOW;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 77958449436     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200900036     Document Type: Article

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