Finesse 1.0 Manual

Document #:

LIGO-T1300431-v1

Document type:

T - Technical notes

Abstract:

Finesse is a fast interferometer simulation program. For a given optical setup, it computes the light field amplitudes at every point in the interferometer assuming a steady state. To do so, the interferometer description is translated into a set of linear equations that are solved numerically. For convenience, a number of standard analyses can be performed automatically by the program, namely computing modulation-demodulation error signals, transfer functions, shot-noise-limited sensitivities, and beam shapes. Finesse can perform the analysis using the plane-wave approximation or Hermite-Gauss modes. The latter allows computation of the properties of optical systems like telescopes and the effects of mode matching and mirror angular positions.

Files in Document:

• Finesse-1.0.pdf (1.6 MB)

Topics:

• Core Optics
• Modelling
• Sensing and Control

Authors:

• Andreas Freise

Keywords:

optics simultion hermite-gauss modes interferometer