Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss interferometry for gravitational-wave detectors with in situ mirror defects compensation
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A. Allocca, A. Gatto, M. Tacca, R. A. Day, M. Barsuglia, G. Pillant, C. Buy, and G. Vajente INFN, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy Università di Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), I-56021 Cascina, Pisa, Italy California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA (Received 5 October 2015; published 18 November 2015)
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