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.

Web Resources

• [http://www.rfdesign.com]

Theses

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

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.