A Renewal Proposal for the Galileo Program

斯坦福大学的一个多学科小组提出了LIGO先进探测器研究和开发计划。 该小组建议在干涉仪配置，高功率激光器和光学，振动隔离，对准和干涉仪控制以及悬浮和核心光学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台的潜力。 斯坦福大学的研究小组由应用物理、航空航天、电气工程和物理系的教师和研究科学家组成。 他们包括激光开发、电子、材料科学、光学、光电子和半导体领域的知名专家。 这一广泛的研究计划被重力波社区视为对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.