A F García Marín et al 2006 Class. Quantum Grav. 23 S133 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/8/S18
A F García Marín1, V Wand1, F Steier1, F Guzmán Cervantes1, J Bogenstahl1,2, O Jennrich3, G Heinzel1 and K Danzmann1
Show affiliationsThis paper presents a procedure to perform fully autonomous on-orbit alignment of the interferometer on board the LISA Technology Package (LTP). LTP comprises two free-floating test masses as inertial sensors that additionally serve as end mirrors of a set of interferometers. From the output signals of the interferometers, a subset has been selected to obtain alignment information of the test masses. Based on these signals, an alignment procedure was developed and successfully tested on the engineering model of the optical bench. Furthermore, operation procedures for the characterization of critical on-orbit properties of the optical metrology system (e.g. fibre noise) have been established.
78A60 Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (See also 81V80)
Issue 8 (21 April 2006)
Received 19 October 2005, in final form 15 December 2005
Published 28 March 2006
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