Mr John Nelson
- Optics/Laser Lab Technician (School of Engineering)
Publications
2019
Sroor, H., Naidoo, D., Miller, S. W., Nelson, J., Courtial, J. and Forbes, A. (2019) Fractal light from lasers. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 99(1), 013848. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.013848)
2014
Miller, S. W., Nelson, J. and Courtial, J. (2014) Three-dimensional Self-similar Fractal Light in Canonical Resonators. In: Laser Beam Shaping XV, San Diego, CA, USA, 17-19 Aug 2014, 91940Z. (doi: 10.1117/12.2061410)
2013
Aasi, J. et al. (2013) Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network. Physical Review D, 88(6), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.062001)
Aasi, J. et al. (2013) Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data. Physical Review D, 87(4), 042001-1. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.042001)
Aasi, J. et al. (2013) Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009–2010. Physical Review D, 87(2), 022002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.022002)
Adrián-Martínez, S. et al. (2013) A first search for coincident gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013, (doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/06/008)
2012
Evans, P. A. et al. (2012) Swift follow-up observations of candidate gravitational-wave transient events. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 203(2), p. 28. (doi: 10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/28)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during ligo science run 6 and virgo science runs 2 and 3. Astrophysical Journal, 760(1), p. 12. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/12)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Erratum: Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown [Phys. Rev. D83, 122005 (2011)]. Physical Review D, 86(6), 069903. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.069903)
Aasi, J. et al. (2012) The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 29(15), p. 155002. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/29/15/155002)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Implications for the origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO observations. Astrophysical Journal, 755(1), Art. 2. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/2)
Sathyaprakash, B. et al. (2012) Scientific objectives of Einstein telescope. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 29(12), p. 124013. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/29/12/124013)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122007. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122007)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3. Physical Review D, 85(8), Art. 082002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.082002)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D, 85(10), p. 102004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600–1000 Hz. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 85(2), Art. 022001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.022001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 541, A155. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218860)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, A124. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118219)
2011
Abadie, J. et al. (2011) Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using LIGO S5 science data. Physical Review Letters, 107(27), Art. 271102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.271102)
Friedrich, D. et al. (2011) Waveguide grating mirror in a fully suspended 10 meter Fabry-Perot cavity. Optics Express, 19(16), pp. 14955-14963. (doi: 10.1364/OE.19.014955)
Barr, B.W. et al. (2011) Translational, rotational, and vibrational coupling into phase in diffractively coupled optical cavities. Optics Letters, 36(14), pp. 2746-2748. (doi: 10.1364/OL.36.002746)
Abadie, J. et al. (2011) Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown. Physical Review D, 83(12), Art. 122005. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.122005)
Hild, S. et al. (2011) Sensitivity studies for third-generation gravitational wave observatories. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 28(9), 094013. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/28/9/094013)
Abadie, J. et al. (2011) Search for gravitational wave bursts from six magnetars. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 734(2), L35. (doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/734/2/L35)
Abadie, J. et al. (2011) Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Vela pulsar. Astrophysical Journal, 737(2), p. 93. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/737/2/93)
2010
Abadie, J. et al. (2010) Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 624(1), pp. 223-240. (doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.07.089)
Abadie, J. et al. (2010) Search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence in LIGO and Virgo data from S5 and VSR1. Physical Review D, 82(10), Art. 102001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.102001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2010) First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star. Astrophysical Journal, 722(2), pp. 1504-1513. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1504)
Abadie, J. et al. (2010) Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27(17), Art. 173001. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/17/173001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2010) All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run. Physical Review D, 81(102001), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.102001)
Abbott, B. et al. (2010) Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from ligo science run 5 and virgo science run 1. Astrophysical Journal, 715(2), pp. 1438-1452. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1438)
Abbott, B. et al. (2010) Searches for gravitational Waves from known pulsars with science run 5 ligo data. Astrophysical Journal, 713(1), pp. 671-685. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/713/1/671)
Edgar, M.P. et al. (2010) Experimental demonstration of a suspended, diffractively coupled Fabry‚ Perot cavity. In: 8th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi 8), New York, NY, USA, 22-26 Jun 2009, 084029. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084029)
Punturo, M. et al. (2010) The third generation of gravitational wave observatories and their science reach. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27(8), 084007. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084007)
Punturo, M. et al. (2010) The Einstein Telescope: a third-generation gravitational wave observatory. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27(19), 194002. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/19/194002)
2009
Edgar, M.P. et al. (2009) Experimental demonstration of a suspended diffractively coupled optical cavity. Optics Letters, 34(20), pp. 3184-3186. (doi: 10.1364/OL.34.003184) (PMID:19838267)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin. Nature, 460(7258), pp. 990-994. (doi: 10.1038/nature08278) (PMID:19693079)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Reports on Progress in Physics, 72(7), 076901. (doi: 10.1088/0034-4885/72/7/076901)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data. Physical Review D, 79(2), 022001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.022001)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) ERRATUM: "beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the crab pulsar (2008, ApJ, 683, L45). Astrophysical Journal, 706(1), L203. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/L203)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state. New Journal of Physics, 11(7), 073032. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/7/073032)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-Science-Run Data. Physical Review Letters, 102(11), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.111102) (PMID:19392186)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings. Physical Review D, 80(6), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.062002)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data. Physical Review D, 80(6), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.062001)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO's S5 data. Physical Review D, 79(12), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.122001)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO's fifth science run. Physical Review D, 80(4), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.047101)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Stacked search for gravitational waves from the 2006 Sgr 1900+14 storm. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 701(2), L68-L74. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/L68)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 80(4), 042003. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.042003)
2008
Abbott, B. et al. (2008) First joint search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO and GEO 600 data. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 25(24), (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/25/24/245008)
Abbott, B. et al. (2008) Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 25, 114051. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/25/11/114051)
Abbott, B. et al. (2008) Search for gravitational-wave bursts from soft gamma repeaters. Physical Review Letters, 101, 211102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.211102) (PMID:19113401)
Courtial, J. and Nelson, J. (2008) Ray-optical negative refraction and pseudoscopic imaging with Dove-prism arrays. New Journal of Physics, 10, 023028. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/2/023028)
Articles
Sroor, H., Naidoo, D., Miller, S. W., Nelson, J., Courtial, J. and Forbes, A. (2019) Fractal light from lasers. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 99(1), 013848. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.013848)
Aasi, J. et al. (2013) Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network. Physical Review D, 88(6), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.062001)
Aasi, J. et al. (2013) Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data. Physical Review D, 87(4), 042001-1. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.042001)
Aasi, J. et al. (2013) Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009–2010. Physical Review D, 87(2), 022002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.022002)
Adrián-Martínez, S. et al. (2013) A first search for coincident gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013, (doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/06/008)
Evans, P. A. et al. (2012) Swift follow-up observations of candidate gravitational-wave transient events. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 203(2), p. 28. (doi: 10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/28)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during ligo science run 6 and virgo science runs 2 and 3. Astrophysical Journal, 760(1), p. 12. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/12)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Erratum: Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown [Phys. Rev. D83, 122005 (2011)]. Physical Review D, 86(6), 069903. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.069903)
Aasi, J. et al. (2012) The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 29(15), p. 155002. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/29/15/155002)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Implications for the origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO observations. Astrophysical Journal, 755(1), Art. 2. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/2)
Sathyaprakash, B. et al. (2012) Scientific objectives of Einstein telescope. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 29(12), p. 124013. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/29/12/124013)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122007. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122007)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3. Physical Review D, 85(8), Art. 082002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.082002)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D, 85(10), p. 102004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600–1000 Hz. Physical Review D, 85(12), p. 122001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 85(2), Art. 022001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.022001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 541, A155. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218860)
Abadie, J. et al. (2012) Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, A124. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118219)
Abadie, J. et al. (2011) Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using LIGO S5 science data. Physical Review Letters, 107(27), Art. 271102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.271102)
Friedrich, D. et al. (2011) Waveguide grating mirror in a fully suspended 10 meter Fabry-Perot cavity. Optics Express, 19(16), pp. 14955-14963. (doi: 10.1364/OE.19.014955)
Barr, B.W. et al. (2011) Translational, rotational, and vibrational coupling into phase in diffractively coupled optical cavities. Optics Letters, 36(14), pp. 2746-2748. (doi: 10.1364/OL.36.002746)
Abadie, J. et al. (2011) Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown. Physical Review D, 83(12), Art. 122005. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.122005)
Hild, S. et al. (2011) Sensitivity studies for third-generation gravitational wave observatories. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 28(9), 094013. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/28/9/094013)
Abadie, J. et al. (2011) Search for gravitational wave bursts from six magnetars. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 734(2), L35. (doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/734/2/L35)
Abadie, J. et al. (2011) Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Vela pulsar. Astrophysical Journal, 737(2), p. 93. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/737/2/93)
Abadie, J. et al. (2010) Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 624(1), pp. 223-240. (doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.07.089)
Abadie, J. et al. (2010) Search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence in LIGO and Virgo data from S5 and VSR1. Physical Review D, 82(10), Art. 102001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.102001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2010) First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star. Astrophysical Journal, 722(2), pp. 1504-1513. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1504)
Abadie, J. et al. (2010) Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27(17), Art. 173001. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/17/173001)
Abadie, J. et al. (2010) All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run. Physical Review D, 81(102001), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.102001)
Abbott, B. et al. (2010) Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from ligo science run 5 and virgo science run 1. Astrophysical Journal, 715(2), pp. 1438-1452. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1438)
Abbott, B. et al. (2010) Searches for gravitational Waves from known pulsars with science run 5 ligo data. Astrophysical Journal, 713(1), pp. 671-685. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/713/1/671)
Punturo, M. et al. (2010) The third generation of gravitational wave observatories and their science reach. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27(8), 084007. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084007)
Punturo, M. et al. (2010) The Einstein Telescope: a third-generation gravitational wave observatory. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27(19), 194002. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/19/194002)
Edgar, M.P. et al. (2009) Experimental demonstration of a suspended diffractively coupled optical cavity. Optics Letters, 34(20), pp. 3184-3186. (doi: 10.1364/OL.34.003184) (PMID:19838267)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin. Nature, 460(7258), pp. 990-994. (doi: 10.1038/nature08278) (PMID:19693079)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Reports on Progress in Physics, 72(7), 076901. (doi: 10.1088/0034-4885/72/7/076901)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data. Physical Review D, 79(2), 022001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.022001)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) ERRATUM: "beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the crab pulsar (2008, ApJ, 683, L45). Astrophysical Journal, 706(1), L203. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/L203)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state. New Journal of Physics, 11(7), 073032. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/7/073032)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-Science-Run Data. Physical Review Letters, 102(11), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.111102) (PMID:19392186)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings. Physical Review D, 80(6), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.062002)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data. Physical Review D, 80(6), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.062001)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO's S5 data. Physical Review D, 79(12), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.122001)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO's fifth science run. Physical Review D, 80(4), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.047101)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Stacked search for gravitational waves from the 2006 Sgr 1900+14 storm. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 701(2), L68-L74. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/L68)
Abbott, B. et al. (2009) Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 80(4), 042003. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.042003)
Abbott, B. et al. (2008) First joint search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO and GEO 600 data. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 25(24), (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/25/24/245008)
Abbott, B. et al. (2008) Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 25, 114051. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/25/11/114051)
Abbott, B. et al. (2008) Search for gravitational-wave bursts from soft gamma repeaters. Physical Review Letters, 101, 211102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.211102) (PMID:19113401)
Courtial, J. and Nelson, J. (2008) Ray-optical negative refraction and pseudoscopic imaging with Dove-prism arrays. New Journal of Physics, 10, 023028. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/2/023028)
Conference Proceedings
Miller, S. W., Nelson, J. and Courtial, J. (2014) Three-dimensional Self-similar Fractal Light in Canonical Resonators. In: Laser Beam Shaping XV, San Diego, CA, USA, 17-19 Aug 2014, 91940Z. (doi: 10.1117/12.2061410)
Edgar, M.P. et al. (2010) Experimental demonstration of a suspended, diffractively coupled Fabry‚ Perot cavity. In: 8th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi 8), New York, NY, USA, 22-26 Jun 2009, 084029. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084029)