The OPT sub-programme will be focused on the optical technologies, specifically on the development, test and commissioning of the optical components crucial in the advanced and third generation GW detectors.

Sensing and control, Pound Drever Hall

Power recycling, signal recycling, 'classical quantum noise' (no QND, squeezing etc.)

Gaussian Beamsand modes in a cavity

Thermal noise, Fluctuation dissipation, mirror substrates and coatings

Interferometers

Coherence, superposition, interference

Light in matter

A discussion of aspects of how light interacts with matter, with particular emphasis on interactions relevant to gravitational wave detectors.

Light waves and polarisation