The advanced LIGO input optics

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Mueller, Chris L ^a   Arain, Muzammil A ^a,i   Ciani, Giacomo ^a   Derosa, Ryan T ^b   Effler, Anamaria ^b   Feldbaum, David ^a   Frolov, Valery V ^c   Fulda, Paul ^a   Gleason, Joseph ^a   Heintze, Matthew ^a   Kawabe, Keita ^d   King, Eleanor J ^e   Kokeyama, Keiko ^b   Korth, William Z ^f   Martin, Rodica M ^a   Mullavey, Adam ^c   Peold, Jan ^g   Quetschke, Volker ^h   Reitze, David H ^a,f   Tanner, David B ^a   Vorvick, Cheryl ^d   Williams, Luke F ^a   Mueller, Guido ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LIGO LIVINGSTON OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d LIGO HANFORD OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

ⁱ KLA TENCOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAMS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; DESIGN SENSITIVITY; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; INPUT POWER; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETER; STABILIZED LASERS; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT;

DESIGN;

EID: 84956992325     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: 10897623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4936974     Document Type: Article

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