Experimental demonstration of weak-light laser ranging and data communication for LISA

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 15937-15946

  Esteban, Juan José ^a,b   García, Antonio F ^a,b   Barke, Simon ^a,b   Peinado, Antonio M ^c   Cervantes, Felipe Guzmán ^a,b   Bykov, Iouri ^a,b   Heinzel, Gerhard ^a,b   Danzmann, Karsten ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE STABILITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

DATA-COMMUNICATION; DIRECT SEQUENCE SPREAD SPECTRUM; ENCODING DATA; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; INTERFERING SIGNALS; LASER FREQUENCY; LASER INTERFEROMETER SPACE ANTENNA; LASER RANGING; LIGHT POWER; METER ACCURACY; POWER LEVELS; RANGING SIGNALS; TIME VARYING; TIME-DELAY INTERFEROMETRY;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80051756445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015937     Document Type: Article

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