I. NSF Materials

• AdvLIGO 2006 Baseline Review Final Report
• LIGO 2006 Operations Annual Review Report

II. Advanced LIGO Project Documentation

• Reference Design

III. Additional Reading

Seismic Isolation

• Quiet Hydraulic Actuators for LIGO
• Report on LLO and LHO Seismic Environment for the Past Three Years
• Report to the HAM-SAS Evaluation Committee

Suspensions

• Active Control and Sensor Noise Filtering Duality, Experimental Application to Advanced LIGO Suspensions
• Developments Toward Monolithic Suspensions for Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors
• Silica Suspension and Coating Developments for Advanced LIGO
• An Investigation of Eddy-Current Damping of Multi-Stage Pendulum Suspensions for Use in Interferometric GW Detectors
• Nonlinear Pitch Effects and Potential Capsize in the Quad Suspension Noise Prototype
• Quadruple Pendulum Controls Prototype Data Summary
• Electrostatic Driver Electronics Preliminary Design Document and Test Report

Pre-Stabilized Laser

• High-Power Fundamental Mode Single-Frequency Laser
• Advanced LIGO PSL Front End Amplifiers vs Oscillator

Input Optics

• Input Optics Subsystem Preliminary Design Document

Core Optics

• Optimized Multilayer Dielectric Mirror Coatings for GW Interferometers
• The Effects of Heating on Mechanical Loss in Tantala/Silica Optical Coatings
• Thermal Noise from Optical Coatings in GW Detectors
• Test Mass Ring Dampers with Minimum Thermal Noise

Auxiliary Optics

• Thermal Compensation System Design Requirements Document
• Thermal Compensation System Conceptual Design Document
• Test Mass Thermal Compensation Strategies

Interferometer Sensing and Control

• Optical Modulation Techniques for Length Sensing and Control of Optical Cavities
• Length Sensing and Control for AdLIGO
• Conceptual Design of a Double Pendulum for the Output Mode Cleaner
• Characterization of an Advanced Converter Design
• Lock Acquisition Scheme for the Advanced LIGO Optical Configuration

Control and Data Systems

• Advanced LIGO Control and Data System Infrastructure
• Advanced LIGO Control and Data System Conceptual Design

System Design Issues

• Parametric Instability with General Recycling
• Analysis of Parametric Oscillatory Instability in Signal Recycled LIGO Interferometer with Different Arms
• Light Scattering Noise for Advanced LIGO