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Laser interferometry for the detection of gravitational waves

REVIEW ARTICLE

Jim Hough and Sheila Rowan

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REVIEW ARTICLE

Results are now appearing from the first generation of long baseline gravitational wave detectors that use laser interferometry for motion sensing. In this short review the history of the field will be briefly discussed, and the principles of the novel laser interferometry developed will be outlined in the context of present and future instruments.


PACS

95.55.Ym Gravitational radiation detectors; mass spectrometers; and other instrumentation and techniques

95.75.Kk Interferometry

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

42.62.Eh Metrological applications; optical frequency synthesizers for precision spectroscopy

07.60.Ly Interferometers

95.30.Sf Relativity and gravitation

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 6 (June 2005)

Received 3 December 2004, accepted for publication 7 March 2005

Published 9 May 2005



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