Optickle is a general model for the electro-opto-mechanical

part of a GW detector.  It ventures into mechanics only as

far as is necessary to include radiation pressure effects,

and into electronics only far enough to produce demodulation

signals, and into optics only up to first order.  There are

many other tools that do all these things in greater detail.

Optickle is for quick, rough, but essentially complete design

studies.



In Optickle you can, in principal, simulate any interferometer.

The provided example is a Fabry-Perot cavity, optFP.  There are

currently two demo files which you are encouraged to run and read:

demoDetuneFP and demoLscFP.  Alignment sensing and control demos

lacking, so for now just read the help on tickle01.



>> cd Optickle

>> 

>> 

>> path(pathdef)

>> addpath(genpath(pwd))

>> 

>> demoLscFP

>> demoDetuneFP



There is much more to say, but for now look at the demos, and

use the help command!  If things get bad, you can always send me

email.  I like questions from people who actually use my code.  At

least the first few questions.



-Matt



mevans@ligo.mit.edu

mevans@ligo.caltech.edu

mevans@ego-gw.it

