A thermal noise interferometer for the characterization of thermal noise in high reflectivity mirrors has been commissioned and first direct measurements of coating thermal noise have been performed. This serves as an ...

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a European Space Agency (ESA) large-scale space mission, aiming to detect gravitational waves (GWs) in the observation band of 0.1mHz to 1Hz. The constellation is formed by ...

The topic of this thesis is the initial link acquisition process for intersatellite laser interfer- ometers. Furthermore, a technique was studied that can be applied to enhance the signal to noise ratio of the established ...

In the mid-2030s, the laser interferometer space antenna (LISA) is planned to be launched and will be the first gravitational wave detector in space. One of the major noise sources in LISA will be tilt-to-length (TTL) ...