• How_To

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.

• An introduction to signal extraction in interferometric gravitational wave detectors by Eric D. Black and Ryan N. Gutenkunst

• Notes on the Pound-Drever-Hall technique by Eric D. Black

• Feedback for physicists: A tutorial essay on control by John Bechhoefer

• Beginner's Guide to Filter Topologies

• Laser Beams and Resonators by H. Kogelnik and T. Li (a good introduction to Gaussian beams)

• Online Electronics Tutorials

List of HowTo's

• /SignalProcessing

• /LaserRules

• /ElectronicsWork

• /Optics

• /Scripting

• /FoodInLab

• /Latex DCC Template

• /PhaseNoise

IFO Stuff

• /Lock the Interferometer

• /Make a calibrated DARM noise spectrum

• /Align the Mode Cleaner

• /Lock the OMC

• /OMC Alignment

• /Measure the Length of the Input Mode Cleaner

• /Set the double demod phases for the Short DOFs

• /Diagonalize the DRMI Length Control

• /Align a beam to photodiode

• /Put Beams on the RF Photodiodes

PSL Stuff

• /Turn on the MOPA

Computer Stuff

• Restart computers: Computer_Restart_Procedures

• Boot_Fest_to_Memory_Corruption_Fixing

• /How to copy an entire directory from a remote computer by the terminal window in Linux

• /Add or rename a daq channel

• /Restart the elog

• /Monitor the status of a running script

• /Use the SVN archive

• /Have web access to nodus

• /Get data from the cluster while at the 40m

• /Set up NDS2 to get old data

COMSOL4

• Create Intrusions through Layered Extrusion

• Transfer Function Measurements

Social Stuff

• Make Coffee

• /Make friends