Stabilized high-power laser system for the gravitational wave detector Advanced LIGO

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 10617-10634

  Kwee, P ^a   Bogan, C ^b   Danzmann, K ^a,b   Frede, M ^d   Kim, H ^a   King, P ^e   Pold J ^a   Puncken, O ^c   Savage, R L ^e   Seifert, F ^e   Wessels, P ^c   Winkelmann, L ^c   Willke, B ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^d NeoLASE GmbH   (Germany)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; STABILIZATION;

BEAM POINTING; CROSS-COUPLINGS; CW ND:YAG LASER; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; GROUND BASED; HIGH-POWER; HIGH-POWER LASER SYSTEMS; HIGH-PRECISION; LASER INTERFEROMETER GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE OBSERVATORIES; LASER POWER; OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; OUTPUT BEAM; STABILIZATION FEEDBACK;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GRAVITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLID STATE LASER; TIME;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GRAVITATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861116242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010617     Document Type: Article

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