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1 Introduction
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1.1 Getting Started
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2 Plane waves
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2 Plane waves Home
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2.1 Fabry Perot cavity
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2.2 Michelson interferometer
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2.3 Optical modulation
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2.4 Demodulation
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3 Gaussian beams
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3 Gaussian beams Home
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3.1 Beam parameters
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3.2 Photodetectors
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3.3 Mirror maps
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4 Advanced Topics
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4 Advanced Topics Home
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4.1 Locks
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4.2 Parametric Instabilities
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4.3 Reduced Order Modelling
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5 Tips and Examples
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5.1 Plotting
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5.2 General modelling
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6 GW Detectors
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6 GW Detectors Home
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6.1 aLIGO
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Laser Labs
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Pocket Black Hole
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Stretch and Squash
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Space Time Quest
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Black Hole Master
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Processing Sketches
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Simulations
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Simulation Home
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Finesse Main Page
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Finesse Syntax
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Finesse Cheatsheet (FAQ)
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PyKat Main Page
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Simtools (Matlab)
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ComponentLibrary
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Finesse2
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Finesse3
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Ifosim logbooks
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Component-Library
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Laser-Labs-Games
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Einstein Telescope
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Einstein Telescope
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2021 roadmap for large European infrastructures
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https://www.esfri.eu/latest-esfri-news/new-ris-roadmap-2021
Software that Contributed to Gravitational Wave Discovery
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/softwarex/special-issue/103XKC9DRLV
Pykat: Python package for modelling precision optical interferometers
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2020.100613
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small team of core contributors
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https://finesse.docs.ligo.org/finesse3/backmatter/about.html
the source code
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https://git.ligo.org/finesse/finesse3
documentation
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https://finesse.docs.ligo.org/finesse3/
Finesse 3.0a1
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Finesse 2
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ESFRI application of the Einstein Telescope
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http://www.et-gw.eu/index.php/news/144-et-esfri-proposal-submitted
new documents
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http://www.et-gw.eu/index.php/relevant-et-documents
updated design
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https://apps.et-gw.eu/tds/ql/?c=15418
video and several still images
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https://logbooks.ifosim.org/
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https://logbooks.ifosim.org
Aaron Jones
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http://aaronwjones.com
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Implications of the Quantum Noise Target for the Einstein Telescope Infrastructure Design
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07468
High Dynamic Range Spatial Mode Decomposition
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04864
Increased Sensitivity of Higher-Order Laser Beams to Mode Mismatches
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12564
Pykat: Python package for modelling precision optical interferometers
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06270
Feasibility study of beam-expanding telescopes in the interferometer arms for the Einstein Telescope
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02983
Einstein Telescope
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http://www.et-gw.eu/
European Stratagy Forum on Research Infrastructures
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https://www.esfri.eu/
Nikhef press release
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https://www.nikhef.nl/en/news/plan-to-build-einstein-telescope-submitted-for-european-research-roadmap/
Chirp
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Chirp
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hands-onworkshop on interferometer modeling
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http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=finesse:workshop_08_019
Finesse 3
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https://git.ligo.org/finesse/finesse3/
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
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https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221101
Broadband sensitivity enhancement of detuned dual-recycled Michelson interferometers with EPR entanglement
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07173
The Influence of Dual-Recycling on Parametric Instabilities at Advanced LIGO
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08595
Multi-spatial-mode effects in squeezed-light-enhanced interferometric gravitational wave detectors
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08237
Interferometer Techniques for Gravitational-Wave Detection
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41114-016-0002-8
LIGOMagazine
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pdf version online
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https://chat.ligo.org/ligo/channels/finesse
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Gitlab servers at LIGO
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Black Hole Master
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Black Hole Master page
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Laser Labs
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LIGO Magazine
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watch the talk on Youtube
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impressions from the event
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recorded
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Finesse 2.1
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CHANGES
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LIGO Magazine
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LIGO ScientificCollaboration
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here
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http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/thebirminghambrief/items/2016/02/gravitational-waves-detected.aspx
here
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https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
www.laserlabs.org
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Pocket Black Hole
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www.laserlabs.org
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@LaserLabsGames
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available online
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/18/2/025604
Journal of Optics
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sciencesummaries
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Black Hole Master
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development news
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ThinkTank Birmingham Science Museum
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successfully testedit in our PhD students" office
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Astronomy in the City
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Download the magazine
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Lasers
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http://www.gwoptics.org/research/lasers_book_errata.pdf
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Download the magazine
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Black Hole Master
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Black Hole Pong
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development news pages
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Historyand Impact
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download the magazine
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USBdrive image for download
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Finessedownload page
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LIGO Magazine
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download the magazine
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Simtools
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IPython
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5727
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5727
Investigation of beam clipping in the Power Recycling Cavity of Advanced LIGO using FINESSE
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https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-T1300954/public
RevisitingSidebands of Sidebands in Finesse
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https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-T1300986/public
Modelling mirror surface distortion effects in low-loss, near-unstable Fabry-Perot cavities
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https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-G1300687/public
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https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-G1300687/public
groups"s PhD admission page
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http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/gwgroup/jobs.php
my research page
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http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~adf/space/phd.php
available for download
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directly from the source code
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CHANGES
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Sensitivity of intra-cavity filtering schemes fordetecting gravitational waves
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3120
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http://www.jove.com/video/50564
GEO Simulation Group Wiki
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this page
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LIGO Magazine
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download the magazine
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gwoptics
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Processing
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Institute of Physics
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http://iop.org
Royal Institution of Great Britain
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http://www.rigb.org/
recording of mypresentation on youtube
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/talks/2013/IOP_Physics_in_Perspective/
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/talks/2013/IOP_Physics_in_Perspective/
Interferometer responsesto gravitational waves: Comparing FINESSE simulations and analytical solutions
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6752
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6752
arxiv.org
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5236
`Phase effects due to beam misalignment on diffractiongratings"
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7016
`A realistic polarizing Sagnac [...] with DC readout for theEinstein Telescope"
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5236
`Generation of high-purity [...] Laguerre-Gauss beams at highlaser power"
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3627
`Invariance of waveguide grating mirrors to lateral displacement phaseshifts"
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0544
LIGO Magazine
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http://www.ligo.org/magazine
LIGOScientific Collaboration (LSC)
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http://www.ligo.org
download the magazine
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GravitationalWaves: New Frontier
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availablefor download
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http://astro1.snu.ac.kr/gw2013/
Looking for Black Holes with lasers
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http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/gwgroup/bsf2010/
Mirror Suspension model
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queue in front of the Physics building
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Dutch version of Space TimeQuest
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Reflection
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interactive applets
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Space TimeQuest
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the game
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high scores
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LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC)
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LIGO Magazine
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free download
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have a look
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History and Impact ofFinesse
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look at someplots
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Space Time Quest
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Black Hole Pong
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high-scorestable for Space Time Quest
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Redmineproject page
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bugtracker
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Wiki
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userforums
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viewthe code online
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main Finesse page
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ComponentLibrary
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ComponentLibray
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Processing
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3899
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Processing sketches
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BlackHole Pong
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Space Time Quest
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Space Time Quest
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hall of fame
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Space Time Quest
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available in Spanish
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Spanish
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Italian
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Chinese
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GEO 600 detector
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS2083
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https://youtu.be/0cb3gfGgeXg
Borja Sorazu at theAmaldi conference in Cardiff 2011
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Physics World
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an online version of the review
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Einsteingravitational wave Telescope
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images and the layout of the Einstein Telescope
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Space Time Quest
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BlackHole Pong
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LIGO
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LIGOoutreach pages
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Black Hole Battle
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Space Time Quest
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download the game
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high scores
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"how to play" video
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Inspiral Signal
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Augmented Reality Pendulum
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SimTools
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You are Einstein
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E-bookon gravitational wave detection
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BlackHole Pong
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Pong
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Processing sketches
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`Lookingfor Black Holes with Lasers"
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http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/gwgroup/bsf2010/
Processing
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Pendulum
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Stimulated Emission
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Michelson Interferometer 1
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Gaussian Beam Viewer
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Cavity Calculator 1
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Luxor
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gwoptics
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Gaussian Beam Viewer
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Interferometer Techniques for Gravitational-Wave Detection
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http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2010-1/
Living Reviews in Relativity
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Scratch rocket game
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CHANGES
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GW detectors
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Stimulated Emission
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Free CSS Templates
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Aaron W Jones
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