Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 54, Issue 2, 0254101(2025)
Essential Performance Evaluation of the Laser Precision Pointing Mechanism for Space Gravitational Wave Detection (Invited)
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Yang LI, Caiyun LIU, Changkang FU, Hongming ZHANG, Hongyang GUO, Mengyang ZHAO, Ruihong GAO, Qiang WANG, Dong HE, Yongmei HUANG. Essential Performance Evaluation of the Laser Precision Pointing Mechanism for Space Gravitational Wave Detection (Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2025, 54(2): 0254101
Category: Special Issue for Precise Beam Pointing for Space Gravitational Wave Detection
Received: Dec. 13, 2024
Accepted: Jan. 17, 2025
Published Online: Mar. 25, 2025
The Author Email: HE Dong (hedong@ioe.ac.cn), HUANG Yongmei (huangym@ioe.ac.cn)