Lasers and optics: Looking towards third generation gravitational wave detectors

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 569-592

  Mavalvala, Nergis ^a   McClelland, David E ^b   Mueller, Guido ^c   Reitze, D H ^c   Schnabel, Roman ^d   Willke, Benno ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gravitational wave detection; Laser interferometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251599908     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-010-1023-3     Document Type: Article

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