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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LE230100122
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Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Adaptive Optics for Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors . This project will create a full scale facility for testing optical aberration correction schemes for the world's gravitational wave detectors. The optical surfaces in gravitational wave detectors must be controlled to the atomic level to limit the impact of quantum noise and maximize the sensitivity of these extraordinary instruments. The fine tuning of optical surfaces is done using the so-called thermal compensation systems and currently the performance of these systems can only be evaluated once they are installed on a gravitational wave detector. This is severely limiting the optimization of this critical sub-system and hence there is an urgent need for this facility because it will be the only one of its type anywhere on the globe.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 01-2024
End Date: 01-2025
Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
Funding Amount: $460,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Astronomical sciences | Lasers and quantum electronics | General relativity and gravitational waves |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
