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| Type: | Thesis |
| Title: | An instrument for the measurement of the spectrum of thermoelastic noise in sapphire. |
| Author: | Hollitt, Christopher |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| School/Discipline: | School of Chemistry and Physics, Discipline of Physics |
| Abstract: | This thesis describes the design and construction of an instrument intended to measure the length noise present in optical materials. The detection of thermoelastic noise in sapphire provides the initial motivation for the instrument, though the intent is to build a system capable of robustly characterising a variety of noise sources in multiple materials. Theoretical modelling is used to design a system that is expected to be dominated by thermoelastic noise. |
| Dissertation Note: | Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Chemistry and Physics, 2007 |
| Keywords: | thermoelasticity; laser interferometers; gravitational waves; sapphires |
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