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20172025
most citedPicometer-stable hexagonal optical bench to verify LISA phase extraction linearity and precision

52 citations · 83 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

physics.optics2025

Construction techniques and commissioning of the Three-Backlink Experiment for the LISA mission

Lea Bischof, Melanie Ast, Jiang Ji Ho-Zhang +10

Designed to detect gravitational waves in the lower-frequency band, the space mission LISA will open a new window to astronomy after its launch in the 2030s. Each LISA spacecraft h…

physics.optics2023★ 10 cited

fractional laser frequency stability with a 7-cm unequal-arm Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Victor Huarcaya, Miguel Dovale Álvarez, Daniel Penkert +7

To achieve sub-picometer sensitivities in the millihertz band, laser interferometric inertial sensors rely on some form of reduction of the laser frequency noise, typically by lock…

physics.ins-det2020★ 12 cited

Single-element dual-interferometer for precision inertial sensing

Yichao Yang, Kohei Yamamoto, Victor Huarcaya +9

Tracking moving masses in several degrees of freedom with high precision and large dynamic range is a central aspect in many current and future gravitational physics experiments. L…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 52 cited

Picometer-stable hexagonal optical bench to verify LISA phase extraction linearity and precision

Thomas S. Schwarze, Germán Fernández Barranco, Daniel Penkert +3

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and its metrology chain have to fulfill stringent performance requirements to enable the space-based detection of gravitational waves.…

physics.ins-det2017★ 9 cited

Towards the LISA Backlink: Experiment design for comparing optical phase reference distribution systems

Katharina-Sophie Isleif, Lea Bischof, Stefan Ast +11

LISA is a proposed space-based laser interferometer detecting gravitational waves by measuring distances between free-floating test masses housed in three satellites in a triangula…