aei – EPICS Controls https://epics-controls.org Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:21:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://epics-controls.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-EPICS_logo_ICON_v03-32x32.png aei – EPICS Controls https://epics-controls.org 32 32 10 Meter Interferometer Prototype Facility https://epics-controls.org/projects-archive/10-meter-interferometer-prototype-facility-aei/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:17:47 +0000 https://epics-controls.org/?post_type=projects&p=41271 The 10 meter prototype facility at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) will host an ultra-low noise 10 meter interferometer and serve as a test bed for new gravitational-wave detector technology. It is being constructed as a combined effort of the AEI, the Institute for Gravitational [...]]]> The 10 meter prototype facility at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) will host an ultra-low noise 10 meter interferometer and serve as a test bed for new gravitational-wave detector technology. It is being constructed as a combined effort of the AEI, the Institute for Gravitational Physics at the Leibniz University Hannover, and the Cluster of Excellence QuantumFrontiers.

As a prototyping facility, its primary objectives are to develop, test and evaluate techniques and technologies to improve the performance of both current and future gravitational-wave detectors, and to train the next generation of scientists. The prototype plays a vital role in bridging the gap between proof-of-principle tabletop experiments and their implementation in full-scale gravitational-wave detectors.


Image: “View into the 10 meter prototype’s central vacuum tank.”; Source: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute).

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