Optics simulation workshop at the `LIGO-India: The road ahead' meeting

This page collects the material presented in the modelling workshop at the second `LIGO-India: The road ahead' meeting in IUCAA Pune, December 2016 by Andreas Freise.

Software Installation

You can install the required software on your own computers, following the instructions we have provided below:

• SoftwareInstall.pdf

Task notebooks

The notebook below demonstrates how the demand for lower quantum noise has motivated the transformation of the Michelson interferometer into the more complex optical layout of Advanced LIGO.

• Michelson_to_LIGO.ipynb Jupyter notebook
• Michelson_to_LIGO.html HTML version of notebook