Tomographic wavefront sensors for advanced gravitational wave interferometers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Brooks, Aidan F.; Thu-Lan, Kelly; Veitch, Peter J.; Munch, Jesper
- Source
- 2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on. :1-2 May, 2006
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Optical distortion
Optical sensors
Distortion measurement
Sensors
Adaptive optics
Optical interferometry
Optical variables measurement
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-9004
We describe a tomographic Hartmann sensor with sensitivity of λ/1100 that can measure optical distortions in gravitational wave interferometers. Using an off-axis geometry we demonstrate reconstruction of on-axis optical distortions to a precision of λ/100. age processing