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A brief overview of 8 m prototype facility of laser interferometer for Taiji pathfinder mission

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The 8 m laser interferometer prototype facility is currently being constructed at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. It aims to perform laser interferometer experiments and pico-meter precision detection and calibration for Taiji pathfinder mission. The seismically isolated ground and passive vibration isolation are interconnected and the optical benches are stabilized by them, which can form two low-noise testbeds inside a 40 m3 ultra-high vacuum system. An on-ground laser interferometer demonstration used for satellite–satellite tracking will be constructed. In this article, the experimental facility and the employed methods will be described, and the technical details of subsystems will be covered in future papers.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the China IPPR International Engineering Co., LTD for providing the design of the seismically isolated ground, and thank the Beijing LeyFond Vacuum Tech. Co., LTD for providing the design and manufacture of the vacuum system. Besides, this work was supported by the Beijing Kechuang Platform Project, and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB23030200), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61575209), and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2018024), the authors express their sincere thanks for their help.

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Li, YQ., Jin, G. A brief overview of 8 m prototype facility of laser interferometer for Taiji pathfinder mission. Appl. Phys. B 127, 88 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-021-07637-2

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