Optical Cavities For Optical Atomic Clocks, Atom Interferometry And Gravitational-Wave Detection (Springer Theses)

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.

• | Author: Miguel Dovale Álvarez
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Aug 24, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 269 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3030208621
• | ISBN-13: 9783030208622