The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) experiment has six telescopes, in three spacecraft, in orbit about the sun. There is a continuous two-way laser link between all of the spacecraft. The ability to make sub picometer level performance predictions about the interferometry for such a large optical system which has major subassemblies separated by 5 million kilometer distances which are constantly moving with respect to each other requires a slight extension of existing optical analysis techniques. To see this a description of the approach used to model all of the optics, in the spacecraft in orbit, is presented and the ability of this model to analyze requirements is discussed.


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    Title :

    LISA Optics Model


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    Publication date :

    2002-01-01


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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