Parametric Instability Workshop
16-18 July 2007, Gingin Perth

The following topics have been presented and discussed in the 3-day workshop.

• Numerical calculations of parametric instabilities (PI) in Advanced LIGO interferometer S. E. Strigin
• (a) Parametric Instability in AdvLIGO, (b) PI Analysis for LCGT, (c) PI with MESA Beam Slavomir Gras
• Parametric Instabilities and the geometry of the recycling cavities Guido Mueller
• Diffraction Losses and Parametric Instabilities in Advanced LIGO Pablo Barriga
• Status of the Japanese Projects and OPI of LCGT Kazuaki Kuroda
• Parametric Instability of LCGT Interferometer Kazuaki Kuroda
• Precursors of Parametric Oscillatory Instability in Gravitational Detectors S. P. Vyatchanin
• High Optical Power Cavity with an Internal Sapphire Substrate — Thermal lensing, thermal compensation & three modes interactions Chunnong Zhao
• Cooling of a micro-mechanical resonator by optical back-action and related experiment
• Optimal Light Beams for future LIGO Interferometers Mihai Bondarescu
• Coatings for Q damping Stuart Reid
• Double Optical Spring Tranquilizer in translational mode Yanbei Chen