LIGO Optics Lab

Used for extensive projects in optics. This lab provides the experimentalist side of Embry-Riddle’s LIGO group specializing in optical coatings research. Houses two to three long-term undergraduate projects and two long-term faculty/graduate student projects.

Equipment

• Large ultra-high vacuum chamber
• Lasers
• 1064 nm low noise fabri-perot cavity
• 1550 nm low noise fabri-perot cavity
• Thermal effects coating research oven and spectrometer
• Scatterometer
• Electronics workshop