ADVANCED LIGO SUSPENSIONS

• Prototype Suspension - Quadruple Pendulum Summer 2001

 
• University of Glasgow
• MIT: - Photographs http://emvogil-3.mit.edu/~richard/Quad_pictures/
• Related Published Papers

 
 
• MATLAB Suspension Models: -

• CIT May2003
• http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~ctorrie/MATLAB/matlabmodels.html
• Mark Barton
• http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~mbarton/SUSmodels/index.html


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• CONTROLS PROTOTYPES for LASTI

• DIARY of EVENTS (UPDATED May 12th 2003)
• PHOTOGRAPHS - High Definition pictures of the assembled triple pendulum (supplied by Doug Cook Dec 2002)

• PEOPLE

 
• OVERALL MC ASSEMBLY, (UPDATED May 12th 2003)

 
• OSEM   (UPDATED May 09th 2003)

• UPPER MASS   (UPDATED April 22nd 2003)

• EDDY CURRENT DAMPER  (pwd: geo600) ***OUT OF DATE***
• 2x2 Eddy Current Damper Adjuster Assembly

                    A-LIGO RECYCLING MIRROR

• RM   (UPDATED May 08th 2003)

 
        A-LIGO ETM: QUADRUPLE PENDULUM
 
• ETM QUAD ASSEMBLY VERSION 0.0 11th APRIL 2003
• Updated May 11th 2003 (to include upper mass & table cloth layout)
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LIGO Science Collaboration (March 10th 2003)
 

• Suspension contribution for the  LSC MARCH 2003. Speakers Phil Willems, Norna Robertson and Caroline Cantley.


GEO CATCHER
         Strefan Gossler supplied a catcher, like those used in GEO 600, to the lab in Glasgow in April 2003.
Russell Jones is currently creating a SolidWorks Assembly of this catcher. The SUS team are planning to have a
Review of the design in the early summer of 2003.
 Several links to phototgrpahs can be found below: -

• GEO 600 Catcher Photographs from Helena A.  (December 11th 2002)
• Geppo Cagnoli with the catcher
• GEO 600 webpage (photos of the Catcher in the BlitzeHalle)