THE GLASGOW 10-M PROTOTYPE LASER INTERFEROMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTOR

Authors
ROBERTSON DI MORRISON E HOUGH J KILLBOURN S MEERS BJ NEWTON GP ROBERTSON NA STRAIN KA WARD H
Citation
Di. Robertson et al., THE GLASGOW 10-M PROTOTYPE LASER INTERFEROMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTOR, Review of scientific instruments, 66(9), 1995, pp. 4447-4452
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied","Instument & Instrumentation
Journal title
Review of scientific instruments → ACNP
ISSN journal
00346748
Volume
66
Issue
9
Year of publication
1995
Pages
4447 - 4452
Database
ISI
SICI code
0034-6748(1995)66:9<4447:TG1PLI>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
We present a description of the prototype interferometric gravitationa l wave detector at Glasgow. The detector, which has been under develop ment for a number of years, consists of two perpendicular 10-m-long hi gh finesse Fabry-Perot cavities formed between test masses hung as pen dulums and is illuminated with a cw argon ion laser. The differential displacement sensitivity of the detector is similar to 7x10(-19) m/roo t Hz from 500 Hz --> 3 kHz and is close to being limited by photoelect ron shot noise in the detected photocurrent. (C) 1995 American Institu te of Physics.