PERFORMANCE OF AN ULTRA LOW-FREQUENCY FOLDED PENDULUM

Authors
BLAIR DG LIU JF MOGHADDAM EF JU L
Citation
Dg. Blair et al., PERFORMANCE OF AN ULTRA LOW-FREQUENCY FOLDED PENDULUM, Physics letters. A, 193(3), 1994, pp. 223-226
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
193
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
223 - 226
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1994)193:3<223:POAULF>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
A folded pendulum consisting of the sum of a conventional compound pen dulum and an inverse pendulum can be tuned to create a pendulum with t he dynamic response of a kilometre scale pendulum. Results are present ed demonstrating the stability and Q-factor of the system down to a re sonant frequency of 17 mHz. It can be scaled up to form a pre-isolatio n stage in the vibration isolation system for laser interferometer gra vitational wave detectors.