Advanced technologies for future ground-based, laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors

2014/02/28 by G. Hammond, S. Hild, M. Pitkin
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Aerospace engineering #Artificial intelligence #Astronomy #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Computer science #Detector #Engineering #Field (mathematics) #Geology #Gravitational wave #Gravitational-wave observatory #Interferometry #Laser #Noise (video) #Optics #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Remote sensing #Systems engineering #astro-ph.IM #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/09500340.2014.920934

published in the Journal of Modern Optics

openalex publication_date 2014/06/25 · arxiv created 2014/06/26 · arxiv updated 2014/06/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We present a review of modern optical techniques being used and developed for the field of gravitational wave detection. We describe the current state-of-the-art of gravitational waves detector technologies with regard to optical layouts, suspensions and test masses. We discuss the dominant sources and noise in each of these subsystems and the developments that will help mitigate them for future generations of detectors. We very briefly summarise some of the novel astrophysics that will be possible with these upgraded detectors.

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