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://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)
 * [[http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/index.html|Online Electronics Tutorials]]

== List of HowTo's ==
 . /SignalProcessing

 . /LaserRules

 . /ElectronicsWork

 . [[/Optics]]

 . [[/Scripting]]

 . /FoodInLab

 . [[Tutorials/Latex_DCC_Template|/Latex DCC Template]]

 . /PhaseNoise

== IFO Stuff ==
 . [[How_To/Lock_the_Interferometer|/Lock the Interferometer]]

 . [[How_To/Make_a_calibrated_DARM_noise_spectrum|/Make a calibrated DARM noise spectrum]]

 . [[How_To/Align_the_Mode_Cleaner|/Align the Mode Cleaner]]

 . [[How_To/Lock_the_OMC|/Lock the OMC]]

 . [[How_To/OMC_Alignment|/OMC Alignment]]

 . [[How_To/Measure_the_Length_of_the_Input_Mode_Cleaner|/Measure the Length of the Input Mode Cleaner]]

 . [[How_To/Set_the_double_demod_phases_for_the_Short_DOFs|/Set the double demod phases for the Short DOFs]]

 . [[How_To/Diagonalize_the_DRMI_Length_Control|/Diagonalize the DRMI Length Control]]

 . [[How_To/Align_a_beam_to_photodiode|/Align a beam to photodiode]]

 . [[How_To/Put_Beams_on_the_RF_Photodiodes|/Put Beams on the RF Photodiodes]]

== PSL Stuff ==
 . [[How_To/Turn_on_the_MOPA|/Turn on the MOPA]]

== Computer Stuff ==
 . Restart computers: [[Computer_Restart_Procedures]]
   [[How_To/Find_Channel_Names]]
 . [[Boot_Fest_to_Memory_Corruption_Fixing]]

 . [[How_To/How_to_copy_an_entire_directory_from_a_remote_computer_by_the_terminal_window_in_Linux|/How to copy an entire directory from a remote computer by the terminal window in Linux]]

 . [[How_To/Add_or_rename_a_daq_channel|/Add or rename a daq channel]]

 . [[How_To/Restart_the_elog|/Restart the elog]]

 . [[How_To/Restart_nds2|/Restart nds2]]

 . [[How_To/Monitor_the_status_of_a_running_script|/Monitor the status of a running script]]

 . [[How_To/Use_the_SVN_archive|/Use the SVN archive]]

 . [[How_To/Have_web_access_to_nodus|/Have web access to nodus]]

 . [[How_To/Get_data_from_the_cluster_while_at_the_40m|/Get data from the cluster while at the 40m]]

 . [[How_To/Set_up_NDS2_to_get_old_data|/Set up NDS2 to get old data]]

== COMSOL4 ==
 . [[How_To/COMSOL4/Create_Intrusions_through_Layered_Extrusion|Create Intrusions through Layered Extrusion]]

 . [[How_To/COMSOL4/Transfer_Function_Measurements|Transfer Function Measurements]]

== Social Stuff ==
 . Make [[Coffee]]

 . [[How_To/Make_friends|/Make friends]]