Performance of a thermally deformable mirror for correction of low-order aberrations in laser beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2909-2916

  Kasprzack, Marie ^a,b   Canuel, Benjamin ^b   Cavalier, Fabien ^a   Day, Richard ^b   Genin, Eric ^b   Marque, Julien ^b   Sentenac, Daniel ^b   Vajente, Gabriele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b EUROPEAN GRAVITATIONAL OBSERVATORY EGO   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; GRAVITY WAVES; LASER BEAMS; MIRRORS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTORS; LOW COST TECHNOLOGY; MECHANICAL METHODS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; WAVEFRONT DISTORTION;

LASER MIRRORS;

EID: 84876554142     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.002909     Document Type: Article

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