Exploring the unknown (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Exploring the unknown

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The new adaptive optical devices are designed to deliver ring-like targeted heating patterns to the surface of the 34-cm-diameter core optics in LIGO to control the effect of increasing thermal distortion as the laser power is increased toward the megawatt scale.

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Richardson lab, UC Riverside.

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