40m Library

Tutorials

This page is for links to pedagogical explanations of techniques and phenomena endemic to LIGO, with a target audience of summer students and visitors. It's called "Tutorials" because that's easier to spell.

• [http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=AJPIAS000071000004000365000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes An introduction to signal extraction in interferometric gravitational wave detectors] by Eric D. Black and Ryan N. Gutenkunst

• [http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/T/T980045-00.pdf Notes on the Pound-Drever-Hall technique] by Eric D. Black

• [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005RvMP...77..783B Feedback for physicists: A tutorial essay on control] by John Bechhoefer

• [http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm/an_pk/1762 Beginner's Guide to Filter Topologies]

• [http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/P/P660001-00.pdf Laser Beams and Resonators] by H. Kogelnik and T. Li (a good introduction to Gaussian beams)

• [attachment:PhaseNoiseTutorial.pdf Impact of ultralow phase noise oscillators on system performance.] A tutorial on phase noise.

• [attachment:CharacterizingPhaseNoise.pdf Characterizing Phase Noise.] A tutorial for the novice RF engineer on how to characterize phase noise.

• [attachment:PLLDesign.pdf PLL Performance, Simulation and Design.] A tutorial on PLL design by National Semiconductor Corp..
• [attachment:mode_coupling.pdf Mode couplings of two astigmatic beams] by KA

Web Resources

• http://www.rfdesign.com

• [http://www.cvimellesgriot.com/Company/Documentation.aspx?SuperGroupid=27&DocumentTypeid=2 CVI Cool Tips]

Theses

• Rana Adhikari (MIT) - [attachment:Rana_thesis.pdf Sensitivity and Noise Analysis of 4 km Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antennae]

• Tomotada Akutsu (Univ. of Tokyo) - [attachment:akutsutt_phd.pdf Search for a stochastic background of gravitational waves at 100 MHz with laser interferometers]

• Masaki Ando (Univ. of Tokyo) - [attachment:ando_d.pdf Power recycling for an interferometric gravitational wave detector]

• Koji Arai (Univ. of Tokyo) - [attachment:arai_d.pdf Robust extraction of control signals for power-recycled interferometric gravitational-wave detectors]

• Yoichi Aso (Univ. of Tokyo) - [attachment:aso_d.pdf Active Vibration Isolation for a LaserInterferometric Gravitational Wave Detector using a Suspension Point Interferometer]

• Stefan Ballmer (MIT) - [attachment:ballmer_d.pdf LIGO interferometer operating at design sensitivity with application to gravitational radiometry]

• Lisa Barsotti (Pisa Univ.) - [attachment:barsotti_d.pdf The control of the Virgo interferometer for gravitational wave detection]

• Andreas Freise (Univ. of Hannover) - [attachment:freise_d.pdf The Next Generation of Interferometry: Multi-Frequency Optical Modelling, Control Concepts and Implementation]

• Hartmut Grote (Univ. of Hannover) - [attachment:grote_d.pdf Making it Work: Second Generation Interferometry in GEO600!]

• Gerhard Heinzel (Univ. of Hannover) - [attachment:heinzel_d.pdf Advanced optical techniques for laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detectors]

• Keita Kawabe (Univ. of Tokyo) - [attachment:kawabe_d.pdf Development of a 3-meter Fabry-Perot-Michelson Interferometer for Gravitational Wave Detection]

• Nergis Mavalvara (MIT) - [attachment:nergis_d.pdf Alignment Issues in Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors]

• Osamu Miyakawa (Univ. of Tokyo) - [attachment:miyakawa_d.pdf Development of a Variable-Bandwidth Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detector]

• Shigeo Nagano (Univ. of Tokyo) - [attachment:nagano_d.pdf A Study of Frequency and Intensity Stabilization System with a High-power Laser for the TAMA300 Gravitational-wave Detector]

• Atsushi Nishizawa (Univ. of Kyoto) - [attachment:nishizawa_d.pdf Search for cosmological gravitational-wave background at high frequencies]

• Kenji Numata (Univ. of Tokyo) - [attachment:numata_d.pdf Direct measurement of mirror thermal noise]

• Martin Regehr (Caltech) - [attachment:regehr_d.pdf Signal Extraction and Control for an Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector]

• Kazuhiro Yamamoto (Univ. of Tokyo) - [attachment:yamamoto_d.pdf Study of the thermal noise caused by inhomogeneously distributed loss]

Papers

• [attachment:armor.pdf Armor - Phase-lock control considerations for coherently combined lasers]
• How to lock the frequency of a laser to that of a reference laser with a PLL.
• [attachment:Physics%20Letters%20A_273_2000_15-24.pdf K Arai - New signal extraction scheme with harmonic demodulation for power-recycled Fabry–Perot–Michelson interferometers]
• The original paper for the harmonic demodulation scheme

Lab Equipment Manuals

• [attachment:NewFocus16X1.pdf New Focus 1601, 1611 Photodiodes]

• [attachment:Marconi2023.pdf Marconi/IFR 2023 Operating Manual]
• [attachment:HP8590ProgrammerManual.pdf HP8590 Spectrum Analyzer Programmer Manual]

LIGO Documents

• [https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0002/T0900288/002/AdvLIGO%20noise%20curves.pdf Advanced LIGO anticipated sensitivity curves]

Computer Stuff

• [attachment:EmacsReferenceCard.pdf Emacs Cheat Sheet]

• [attachment:LaTeXNotSoShortIntro.pdf "A not so short introduction to LaTeX. Or LaTeX 2e in 141 min", by Tobias Oetiker]