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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry

DOI :

10.3791/50564-v

12:14 min

August 12th, 2013

August 12th, 2013

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1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham

Large laser-interferometers are being constructed to create a new type of astronomy based on gravitational waves. Their sensitivities, as for many other high-precision experiments, are approaching fundamental noise limits such as the atomic vibration of their components. We are pioneering technologies to overcome these limits using novel laser beam shapes.

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