Publications (5)
Calculation of thermal noise in grating reflectors
Daniel Heinert, Stefanie Kroker, Daniel Friedrich +8
Grating reflectors have been repeatedly discussed to improve the noise performance of metrological applications due to the reduction or absence of any coating material. So far, how…
A Cryogenic Silicon Interferometer for Gravitational-wave Detection
Rana X Adhikari, Odylio Aguiar, Koji Arai +108
The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers by LIGO has opened the era of gravitational wave astronomy, revealing a previously hidden side of the cosmos. To ma…
Pykat: Python package for modelling precision optical interferometers
Daniel D. Brown, Philip Jones, Samuel Rowlinson +4
\textsc{Pykat} is a Python package which extends the popular optical interferometer modelling software \textsc{Finesse}. It provides a more modern and efficient user interface for…
Young TIM: A wave-optics simulator with slightly special powers
Sean Leavey, Johannes Courtial
Wave optics is a prominent part of the undergraduate physics curriculum, and many undergraduate labs contain experiments on wave optics. In our 3rd-year undergraduate lab, we run n…
Smart Charging Technologies for Portable Electronic Devices
Stefan Hild, Sean Leavey, Christian Gräf +1
In this article we describe our efforts of extending demand-side control concepts to the application in portable electronic devices, such as laptop computers, mobile phones and tab…