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Laser power stabilization via radiation pressure

Laser power stabilization via radiation pressure

© Marina Trad Nery/AEI

Marina Trad Nery explains in the Tools of the Trade column of Nature Reviews Physics how to use radiation pressure to measure and stabilize fluctuations in laser beams – for example in future gravitational wave detectors. 

Original article:
Trad Nery, M.: Laser power stabilization via radiation pressure. Nat Rev Phys (2021).
DOI: 10.1038/s42254-021-00361-y