This book contains the proceedings of the first conference dedicated entirely to the detection and use of gravitational waves. Articles include status reports on major existing prototypes, both laser interferometer and resonant bar detectors; numerical modelling of detectors; data processing requirements; quantum optical techniques; and future plans and directions for resonant bar and laser interferometer instruments. It will serve as an important summary of the status of the field at the beginning of the decade in which direct detection of gravity waves should finally be achieved, giving birth to gravitational astronomy.
Contents:
- Ultralow Temperature Resonant-Mass Gravitational Radiation Detectors: Current Status and Future Prospect (P F Michelson)
- Novel Transducers for Resonant Bar Detectors (M A Fisher)
- Development of 100M Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Antenna (TENKO-10) at ISAS (N Kawashima)
- Interferometric Detection of Gravitational Waves: The VIRGO Project (A Giazotto)
- Interferometer Measurements Using Non-Classical Light (D Walls)
- Prospects of Experimental Gravitational Wave Research in Moscow State University (V Rudenko)
- Data Processing Systems for Gravitational Wave Detectors (D Nicholson)
- The Gravitational Wave Experiment of the Rome Group. Status Report for the Resonant Antennas Explorer and Nautilus (G Pizzella)
- Conceptual Design of a Japanese Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector (M Fujimoto)
- A Proposed Large-Scale Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detector in Australia (D G Blair)
- Workshop on Vibrational Isolation (D E McClelland)
- and other papers
Readership: Cosmologists.
