LIGO & Experimental Gravity Infrastructure

Representative topics

• Advanced LIGO upgrades and commissioning
• LIGO-India
• Cryogenic interferometer pathfinder
• Thin-film coatings and material R&D

Projects in this pillar

• LIGO Adaptive Optics — Develop adaptive optics techniques to correct thermal and alignment distortions in LIGO interferometers, improving sensitivity at high laser power.
• LIGO India — Contribute to the design and commissioning of the LIGO-India detector, including infrastructure, control systems, and integration with the global network.
• Vacuum Beam Guide — Build and characterize a long-baseline vacuum beam guide as a quantum link between laboratories for interferometry and quantum networking.

For an overview of all pillars and projects, see the Research Projects page.