• Complex systems and software engineering

CALVA

Technological platform

Description

CALVA is an experimental platform with suspended optical cavities. This experiment allows to test new techniques called compressed states of light to improve the sensitivity of the Virgo and LIGO kilometer interferometers dedicated to the search for gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

Innovation themes

Affiliated laboratory

Map and access

Campus scientifique d'Orsay
Bât. 200
91400 ORSAY

Ecosystem

Département(s) de recherche

  • P2I (Physics of two infinities)

Graduate schools

Physics