Some Results from an Absolute Calibration for LIGO

Robert Bourgeois; Joann Magner; H. Philip Stahl

doi:10.1364/OFT.1996.OWC.4

Optical Fabrication and Testing
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1996),
paper OWC.4
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OFT.1996.OWC.4

Some Results from an Absolute Calibration for LIGO

Robert Bourgeois, Joann Magner, and H. Philip Stahl

Optical Fabrication and Testing 1996

Boston, Massachusetts United States
1–3 May 1996
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R. Bourgeois, J. Magner, and H. P. Stahl, "Some Results from an Absolute Calibration for LIGO," in Optical Fabrication and Testing, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1996), paper OWC.4.

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Abstract

We present the results from a full-aperture calibration of an interferometer for the LIGO program. Measurements reproduce predictions to better than 0.001 rms over 200 mm. Comparisons will be made with published algorithms.

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