A Renewal Proposal for the Galileo Program

斯坦福大学的一个多学科小组提出了一项针对LIGO的先进探测器研究和开发计划。该小组建议在干涉仪配置、高功率激光和光学、隔振、对准和干涉仪控制以及悬架和核心光学的先进材料开发等领域进行研究。所有这些研究领域对于LIGO的升级都很重要，LIGO将提供足够的灵敏度和带宽，以充分发挥LIGO探测器作为重力波天文观测站的潜力。斯坦福大学的团队由应用物理学、航空航天、电气工程和物理系的教职员工和研究科学家组成。他们包括激光开发、电子学、材料科学、光学、光电子学和半导体方面的知名专家。重力波社区认为，这一范围广泛的研究计划对LIGO的成功至关重要。

A program of advanced detector research and development for LIGO is proposed by a multidisciplinary group at Stanford University. The group proposes research in the areas of interferometer configurations, high power lasers and optics, vibration isolation, alignment and interferometer control and advanced materials development for suspensions and core optics. All of these areas of research are important for the upgrade of LIGO that will provide sufficient sensitivity and bandwidth to fully exploit the potential of the LIGO detectors as a gravity wave astronomical observatory. The Stanford group comprises faculty and research scientists in the departments of Applied Physics, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Electrical Engineering and Physics. They include well known experts in laser development, electronics, materials science, optics, optoelectronics and semiconductors. This wideranging research program is viewed by the gravity wave community to be critically important for the success of LIGO.