[time-nuts] LIGO detects gravitational waves
Attila Kinali
attila at kinali.ch
Mon Feb 15 10:19:43 UTC 2016
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:23:19 +0100
Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> I was thinking the same thing, the circulated energy isn't all that
> great and each arm is feed with 10 W (it's a 20 W laser split in two).
The arms are fed with only 10W, but the circulating power is
actually 100kW. The arms are Fabry-Pérot cavities, i.e. resonators.
Attila Kinali
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