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FFT, Filtering, and Feedback Control
California Institute of Technology, June 20-22, 2018
(One set-up for four participants)
This immersion provides an introduction to active feedback control of dynamical systems. Engineers typically cover this material in a semester- or year-long course, but the essence of the subject can be learned in a much shorter time by the motivated physicist. Necessary background material, including Fast Fourier Transforms and active filtering, will be covered first, followed by the basics of frequency-domain feedback control. The Immersion culminates with an example of noise suppression using active feedback, and an examination of the resulting signal in frequency space compared with the theoretical prediction. This immersion follows the method developed by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) for giving physicists a crash course in frequency-domain feedback control.
Schematic of feedback control.
Hosts and Mentors
Dr. Eric D. Black, California Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, MC 264-33 Pasadena, CA 91125. Email: blacke@its.caltech.edu. Telephone: 626-395-3858.
Kenneth G. Libbrecht (B.S., Caltech; Ph.D. Princeton) is professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology where he is involved in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), the growth of crystals, notably snow crystals, and physics education. He has helped turn a number of Caltech's new experiments for the teaching labs into commercial products, which may be seen at http://newtonianlabs.com and in this Immersion.
Kenneth G. Libbrecht, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, MC 264-33 Pasadena, CA 91125. Email: kgl@caltech.edu. Telephone: 626-395-3722.
Please note that the Jonathan F. Reichert Foundation has established a grant program to help purchase apparatus used in Laboratory Immersions. Limitations and exclusions apply, but generally speaking the foundation may support up to 40% of the cost of the required equipment.