= Possible research topics for students =

 * RSE locking simulation and commissioning
 * Alignment sensing and controls simulation and commissioning
  * Effects of birefringence
  * PRC diagonalization, SRC diagonalization
 * Laser frequency stabilization
 * Interferometer characterizations (optical parameters, mode content, birefringence, high power effect, etc.)
 * Parametric instability modeling and mitigation
  * Effects from Gouy phases in PRC and SRC
  * Damping methods
 * Commissioning and upgrade of transmission monitor system (TMS-VIS, optical table cover, polarization monitor)
 * Output optics development (OMC, beam shutter etc.)
 * In-vacuum RF PD and RF QPD development
 * Upgrade of Mach-Zehnder modulator
  * Compatible with frequency (in-)dependent squeezing?