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<h1 class="title">Learn Laser Interferometry</h1>
<h2 id="subtitle">A self-study course on interferometry for
precision measurements,<br /> using IPython notebooks.</h2>
<img class="portrait" src="images/daniel_icon01.png" alt=""/>
<img class="portrait" src="images/danielt_icon01.png" alt=""/>
<img class="portrait" src="images/andreas_icon01.png" alt=""/>
<div class="tportrait">
Daniel Töyrä<br/>
Daniel Brown<br/>
Andreas Freise<br/>
and others <br/>
since 2016
</div>
<p>
This page provides resources and self-study material on laser
interferometry. In particular we cover the topics related to the
use of optical systems for gravitational wave detectors such as
<a href="http://www.ligo.org">LIGO</a>. At the same time this
is a collection of reference examples for using <a
href="https://www.gwoptics.org/pykat">PyKat</a>.
</p>
<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<h1>Schools and Workshops</h1>
<p>
Notebooks generated from this course have been used for in-person
teaching in a several workshops. You can find and download the
material from some of these workshops on dedicated pages:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.gwoptics.org/learn/schools/St_Andrews_2017/">Simulation
Workshop at the 73rd Scottish Universities Summer School in
Physics (2017)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gwoptics.org/learn/schools/Beijing_2017/">2017
Beijing Normal University Summer School - Gravitational Waves</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gwoptics.org/learn/schools/IUCAA_2016/">
Optics simulation workshop at the `LIGO-India: The road ahead' meeting
2016</a></li>
</ul>
</p>
<h1>Get started!</h1>
<p>
The course is presented as a selection of IPython notebooks
(or Jupyter notebooks), interactive Python notebooks that
run in a web browser. You can interact with the notebooks in two
ways:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>View the notebooks as HTML pages</b>:
If you want to browse the material, or want to
look up examples, you can use the direct links below to
find specific topics or the individual notebooks.
</li>
<li><b>Download the GitHub repository</b>:
The complete course is available in the GitHub repository <a href="https://github.com/gwoptics/learn_laser_interferometry">Learn
Laser Interferometry on GitHub</a>. Follow the instructions in
GitHub to download a local copy of the repository. In the main folder
further installation instructions are provided in the file
<b>Introduction.pdf</b>. This allows you to
edit the notebooks and do your own simulation tasks.</li>
</ul>
<div class="gwimglinks">
<a href="images/notebook_screenshot1.png"><img style="margin-right:2em;box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #888888;" src="images/notebook_screenshot1_thumbnail.png" alt="screenshot of IPython notebooks from this course"/></a>
<a href="images/notebook_screenshot2.png"><img style="box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #888888;" src="images/notebook_screenshot2_thumbnail.png" alt="screenshot of IPython notebooks from this course"/></a>
</div>
<div class="gwcaption">Screen-shots of IPython notebooks from this course.
</div>
<h2 class="subsection">License</h2>
<p>
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons Licence" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png"/></a><br/><span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">Learn Laser Interferometry</span> by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://www.gwoptics.org/learn_laser_interferometry/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">D. Toyra,
D. Brown and A. Freise</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. The code is also made
available under the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html">GNU General
Public License (GPLv3)</a>.
</p>
<p>
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available via <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://www.gwoptics.org/contact/" rel="cc:morePermissions">http://www.gwoptics.org/contact/</a>.
</p>
<h2 class="subsection">About the course</h2>
<p>
At the <a href="http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/gwgroup/">Gravitational Wave
Group</a> in Birmingham, UK, we work on the optical design and
technologies of the laser interferometers for gravitational wave
detection. For example, we led the optical design
of the <a href="http://www.gwoptics.org/research/et/">Einstein
Telescope</a>, the Optical Simulation and Design group towards
the first baseline design of
Advanced Virgo
and are contributing
to the Advanced Interferometer Configurations group of
the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
In this course we combine material we have used in the past to
train our graduate students starting in this field, for example as part of the <a href="http://www.grawiton-gw.eu/">GraWIToN
training network</a>.<br/>
</p>