Interferometer development laboratory

Locations: 211a (control room) and 211b (cleanroom).

Panorama of the Interferometer development laboratory (Room 211b, Kelvin Building)

This facility contains an interferometer test bench, housed in a vacuum system in the clean room. It includes two 10 meter arms and a shorter arm, all of which usually contain optical cavities under test. Interferometer configurations based on both transmissive and diffractive principals are constructed and tested. The control room contains most of the control electronics and operator workstations.