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.
LISA Optics Model
2002-01-01
Preprint
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English
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