Structural thermal noise in gram-scale mirror oscillators

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Neben, Abraham R ^a   Bodiya, Timothy P ^a   Wipf, Christopher ^a   Oelker, Eric ^a   Corbitt, Thomas ^a,b   Mavalvala, Nergis ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKACTION; FREQUENCY STABILIZATION; MECHANICAL DISSIPATION; OPTO-MECHANICS; OSCILLATOR DESIGN; QUANTUM RADIATION; STRUCTURAL DAMPING; WAVE INTERFEROMETRY;

EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MIRRORS;

THERMAL NOISE;

EID: 84870474573     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/11/115008     Document Type: Article

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