Scholar
Rana X. Adhikari
Google Scholar ID: 5wGd4NsAAAAJ
Professor of Physics, Caltech
Citations & Impact
Citations
92,305
H-index
102
i10-index
298
Publications
20
Co-authors
53
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Leads a gravity experiment research group at Caltech
- Active research directions include:
- - Using machine learning for noise cancellation and feedback in laser interferometers for gravitational wave detection
- - Investigating limits to precision mechanical measurements due to nonlinear mechanical upconversion/downconversion
- - Developing thermally actuated adaptive optics for interferometers
- - Building cryogenic silicon interferometers to extend gravitational-wave detectors to cosmological distances
- - Directly measuring thermal noise in mirror coatings to study thermodynamic limits of optical metrology
- - Exploring quantum information limits of classical sensors using quantum fields
- - Developing meter-scale laser gyroscopes based on optical ring resonators for rotation sensing
- - Pushing mechanical Q of silicon cantilevers for LIGO mirror suspensions and macroscopic quantum mechanics tests
