Fundamentals of interferometric gravitational wave detectors /

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Author / Creator:Saulson, Peter R.
Imprint:Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, c1994.
Description:xvi, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1761569
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ISBN:9810218206
Notes:Includes bibliography (p. [283]-294) and index.

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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t The Search for Gravitational Waves.  |t The Importance of the Search.  |t A Bit of History.  |t The Practice of Gravitational Wave Detection.  |t A Guide for the Reader --  |g 2.  |t The Nature of Gravitational Waves.  |t Waves in General Relativity.  |t The Michelson-Morley Experiment.  |t A Schematic Detector of Gravitational Waves.  |t Description of Gravitational Waves in Terms of Force --  |g 3.  |t Sources of Gravitational Waves.  |t Physics of Gravitational Wave Generation.  |t In the Footsteps of Heinrich Hertz?  |t Observation of Gravitational Wave Emission.  |t Astronomical Sources of Gravitational Waves --  |g 4.  |t Linear Systems, Signals and Noise.  |t Characterizing a Time Series.  |t Linear Systems.  |t The Signal-to-Noise Ratio --  |g 5.  |t Optical Readout Noise.  |t Photon Shot Noise.  |t Radiation Pressure Noise.  |t Shot Noise in Classical and Quantum Mechanics.  |t The Remarkable Precision of Interferometry --  |g 6.  |t Folded Interferometer Arms.  |t Herriott Delay Line.  |t Beam Diameter and Mirror Diameter.  |t Fabry-Perot Cavities.  |t A Long Fabry-Perot Cavity.  |t Hermite-Gaussian Beams.  |t Scattered Light in Interferometers.  |t Comparison of Fabry-Perot Cavities with Delay Lines.  |t Optical Readout Noise in Folded Interferometers.  |t Transfer Function of a Folded Interferometer.  |t To Fold, or Not to Fold? --  |g 7.  |t Thermal Noise.  |t Brownian Motion.  |t Brownian Motion of a Macroscopic Mass Suspended in a Dilute Gas.  |t The Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem.  |t Remarks on the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem.  |t The Quality Factor, Q.  |t Thermal Noise in a Gas-Damped Pendulum.  |t Dissipation from Internal Friction in Materials.  |t Special Features of the Pendulum.  |t Thermal Noise of the Pendulum's Internal Modes --  |g 8.  |t Seismic Noise and Vibration Isolation.  |t Ambient Seismic Spectrum.  |t Seismometers.  |t Vibration Isolators.  |t Myths About Vibration Isolation.  |t Isolation in an Interferometer.  |t Stacks and Multiple Pendulums.  |t Q: High or Low?  |t A Gravitational "Short Circuit" Around Vibration Isolators.  |t Beyond Passive Isolation --  |g 9.  |t Design Features of Large Interferometers.  |t How Small Can We Make a Gravitational Wave Interferometer?  |t Noise from Residual Gas.  |t The Space-Borne Alternative --  |g 10.  |t Null Instruments.  |t Some virtues of nullity.  |t The Advantages of Chopping.  |t The Necessity to Operate a Gravitational Wave Interferometer as an Active Null Instrument --  |g 11.  |t Feedback control systems.  |t The Loop Transfer Function.  |t The Closed Loop Transfer Function.  |t Designing the Loop Transfer Function.  |t Instability.  |t The Compensation Filter.  |t Active Damping: A Servo Design Example.  |t Feedback to Reduce Seismic Noise over a Broad Band --  |g 12.  |t An Interferometer as an Active Null Instrument.  |t Fringe-Lock in a Non-Resonant Interferometer.  |t Shot Noise in a Modulated Interferometer.  |t Rejection of Laser Output Power Noise.  |t Locking the Fringe.  |t Fringe Lock for a Fabry-Perot Cavity.  |t A Simple Interferometer with Fabry-Perot Arms.  |t Beyond the Basic Interferometer --  |g 13.  |t Resonant Mass Gravitational Wave Detectors.  |t Does Form Follow Function?  |t The Idea of Resonant Mass Detectors.  |t A Bar's Impulse Response and Transfer Function.  |t Resonant Transducers.  |t Thermal Noise in a Bar.  |t Bandwidth of Resonant Mass Detectors.  |t A Real Bar.  |t Quantum Mechanical Sensitivity "Limit"  |t Beyond the Quantum "Limit"? --  |g 14.  |t Detecting Gravitational Wave Signals.  |t The Signal Detection Problem.  |t Probability Distribution of Time Series.  |t Coincidence Detection.  |t Optimum Orientation.  |t Local Coincidences.  |t Searching for Periodic Gravitational Waves.  |t Searching for a Stochastic Background --  |g 15.  |t Gravitational Wave Astronomy.  |t Gravitational Wave Astronomy.  |t Gravitational Wave Source Positions.  |t Interpretation of Gravitational Waveforms.  |t Previous Gravitational Wave Searches --  |g 16.  |t Prospects.  |t A Prototype Interferometer.  |t LIGO.  |t Proposed Features of 4 km Interferometers. 
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