Speaker
Dr
Nicholas Lockerbie
(University of Strathclyde)
Description
The suspension systems for future Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors require an improved level of immunity to sources of mechanical perturbation of their suspended test-masses. The displacement sensors used to mitigate such perturbations (OSEMs) need to be upgraded for improving their performance in frequency range < 1 Hz. The conceptual design of displacement shadow sensors utilising a ‘displacement doubling prism’ [1] is presented.
Reference: 1. N.A. Lockerbie, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 741 (2014) 192–195.
Primary author
Dr
Nicholas Lockerbie
(University of Strathclyde)
Co-authors
Dr
Kirill Tokmakov
(University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.)
Mr
Sharat Jawahar
(University of Strathclyde)
