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Optical Cavities for Optical Atomic Clocks, Atom Interferometry and Gravitational-Wave Detection

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Authors:
  1. Miguel Dovale Álvarez

    1. Max Planck Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Hannover, Germany

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Birmingham,Birmingham, UK
  • Gives fascinating insights into the many powerful applications of the Fabry-Perot optical cavity
  • With experimental work undertaken at the National Physical Laboratory and within the LIGO Collaboration

Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction to Optical Cavities, Atomic Clocks, Cold Atoms and Gravitational Waves

    • Miguel Dovale Álvarez
    Pages 1-25

  3. Cavities for Optical Atomic Clocks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Thermal-Noise-Limited Room-Temperature ULE Cavity

      • Miguel Dovale Álvarez
      Pages 29-62

    3. Isolation from External Perturbations

      • Miguel Dovale Álvarez
      Pages 63-89

    4. Measure of the Resonator Stability

      • Miguel Dovale Álvarez
      Pages 91-100

  4. Cavities for Atom Interferometry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Cavity Atom Optics

      • Miguel Dovale Álvarez
      Pages 103-140

    3. Fundamental Limitations of Cavity-Assisted Atom Interferometry

      • Miguel Dovale Álvarez
      Pages 141-155

    4. Gravitational-Wave Detection with Cavity-Assisted Atom Interferometry

      • Miguel Dovale Álvarez
      Pages 157-172

    5. 4-Mirror Large-Waist Cavity with Tuneable Stability for Enhanced Atom Interferometry

      • Miguel Dovale Álvarez
      Pages 173-187

  5. Cavities for Gravitational-wave Detection

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Near-Unstable Cavities for Future Gravitational Wave Detectors

      • Miguel Dovale Álvarez
      Pages 191-211

    3. Modelling Parametric Instabilities at Advanced LIGO and ET

      • Miguel Dovale Álvarez
      Pages 213-231

    4. Summary and Conclusions

      • Miguel Dovale Álvarez
      Pages 233-236

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 237-245
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About this book

Devised at the beginning of the 20th century by french physicists Charles Fabry and Alfred Perot, the Fabry-Perot optical cavity is perhaps the most deceptively simple setup in optics, and today a key resource in many areas of science and technology. This thesis delves deeply into the applications of optical cavities in a variety of contexts: from LIGO’s 4-km-long interferometer arms that are allowing us to observe the universe in a new way by measuring gravitational waves, to the atomic clocks used to realise time with unprecedented accuracy which will soon lead to a redefinition of the second, and the matterwave interferometers that are enabling us to test and measure gravity in a new scale. The work presented accounts for the elegance and versatility of this setup, which today underpins much of the progress in the frontier of atomic and gravitational experimental physics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Max Planck Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Hannover, Germany

    Miguel Dovale Álvarez

About the author

Miguel Dovale Alvarez (Santiago de Compostela, 1989) is a spanish-american physicist and member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. He holds a Licenciatura in Physics from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), and a PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK). His main research interests are laser interferometry, quantum optics and gravitational physics. During his doctorate he developed a thermal-noise-limited Fabry-Perot interferometer at the National Physical Laboratory (UK). Dovale is now a postdoc at the Max Planck Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Hannover, Germany), where he works in several aspects of the LISA interferometry chain.

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