Projects

A large proportion of the research in the centre is directed towards gravitational wave detection, the related area of high precision measurement, and the exploitation of gravitational waves for astronomy.

Student projects

Projects	Status
Calibration of gravitational wave detectors	Potential
Coherently combined laser systems for breakthrough starshot and beyond	Potential
Continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars	Potential
Developing ultra-high resolution optical meta-surface sensors	Potential
Dual torsion pendulum for quantum noise limited sensing	Potential
Engineering Inter-spacecraft laser links	Potential
Fibre optic sensor arrays for vibrometry and acoustic sensing	Potential
Gravitational waves from newborn neutron stars	Potential
Gravitational waves from ultralight boson clouds around black holes	Potential
High-bandwidth stabilisation of a 2µm-band laser	Potential
How does a black hole ring?	Potential
Low-noise offset-phase locking and heterodyne interferometry with 2µm-band lasers	Potential
Machine learning for optics and controls	Potential
Measurement of optical and mechanical losses of mirror coatings	Potential
Multi-messenger gravitational-wave astronomy	Potential
Optical sensors for inertial navigation	Potential
Optimising a neutron star extreme matter observatory	Potential
Prospects of future ground-based gravitational-wave detector network	Potential
Quantum squeezed states for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors	Potential
Spatial laser mode analysis for thermal noise measurements in optical cavities	Potential
Tracking noisy lasers using digitally enhanced fibre interferometers	Potential
Vibration control for optical interferometry	Potential

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