Possible research topics for graduate students and postdocs
Contents
Interferometer related
Vibration isolation related
Cryogenics related
Thermal Noise
- Mechanical Q measurement (sapphire fiber, blade spring, bonding, coatings, ...)
- Evaluation of sapphire suspension thermal noise
- Evaluation of thermal noise of integrated cryo-payload
- Design of new sapphire blade spring
- Measurement of violin mode of sapphire suspension fibers and their subtraction from data
Cryogenics
- Development of high-sensitivity local displacement sensor at low temperature
- Development of frosting removal on mirror by using CO2 laser or heater
- Evaluation of low-magnetism black-coating (optical absorption at 1064nm ...)
- Optical absorption measurement of sapphire mirror at low temperature
- Development of non-contact temperature measurement method of mirror