Living Review
The Living Review provides a comprehensive overview of interferometer techniques for gravitational-wave detection. It gives a textbook-style introduction to the optical science required for understanding modern gravitational-wave detectors, as well as other high-precision laser interferometers.
The article contains a number of Finesse examples which are in a now outdated format (Finesse version 2). The same examples are provided in Finesse 3 syntax below.
- 2.7.1 Mirror reflectivity and transmittance
- 2.7.2 Mirror tuning
- 3.8.1 Modulation index
- 3.8.2 Mirror modulation
- 4.3.1 Optical beat
- 5.6.1 Cavity power
- 5.6.2 Michelson power
- 5.6.3 Michelson gravitational wave response
- 6.7.1 Optical spring
- 6.7.2 Homodyne detector and squeezed light
- 6.7.3 Quantum-noise limited interferometer sensitivity
- 7.5.1 Michelson interferometer with arm cavities
- 7.5.2 Michelson with signal recycling
- 7.5.3 Sagnac interferometer
- 8.17.1 Michelson modulation
- 8.17.2 Cavity power and slope
- 8.17.3 Michelson with Schnupp modulation
- 9.17.1 Beam parameter tracing
- 9.17.2 Telescope and Gouy phase
- 10.9.1 Higher-order mode resonances
- 10.9.2 Mode cleaner
- 10.9.3 Misaligned cavity
- 10.9.4 Impact of thermal aberrations