Laser Ranging in a New Dimension

Public talk presented at the PyData London in 2016.

You can watch a recording of the talk on Youtube:

The slides of the talk are available for download as a pdf file (the image quality in this version has been reduced for a smaller file size, and the pdf export does not include some of the animations and overlays):
freise_pydata_07052016_reduced.pdf [8 MB].

Some links shown in the talk:

• Pocket Black Hole mobile app: play with the light bending effect of a black hole
• Finesse: numerical simulation for laser optics and interferometers
• PyKat: Python interface and tools for Finesse
• Learn Laser Interferometry: IPython-based self-study material
• LIGO Magazine: free pdf-based magazine on LIGO and gravitational wave detection