Olaf Hartwig (905a85ac) at 07 Mar 10:28
Add first version of on-board optical delays
Closes #140
Olaf Hartwig (e83f84d1) at 05 Mar 16:14
We currently neglect any on-board optical delays of the laser beams, effectively assuming all S/C to be 'point masses'. Such delays might negatively affect laser frequency noise suppression in TDI. To study this, we should add them to the simulation.
To get a first crude estimate of the order of magnitude of these delays, I did some 'pixel-counting' on the OB diagrams, starting from the first beam-splitter (common paths before shouldn't affect laser noise residuals): and converted this from pixels to meters in a mathematica notebook, ob-distances.nb .
Most of the delays are sub-m and probably negligable for our overall noise residuals. However, the backlink fibre might be several meters long and will presumably give the most significant contribution.
Closes #36
Olaf Hartwig (ce0ff242) at 11 Dec 15:39
Merge branch '36-add-planck-constant' into 'master'
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Closes #36