Researcher

Mail: vincent.loriette@espci.fr
Phone: 33 1 40 79 45 95

Research interests

fluorescence microscopy, adaptive optics, resolution enhancement techniques

Virgo gravitational waves detector, CALVA project (CAvités pour le Lock de Virgo Advanced)

Education

1992-1995 – Université Denis Diderot – Astrophysique -” Développement des méthodes et outils de métrologie optique pour le projet Virgo ”

1990-1991 – DEA Université Denis Diderot – Astrophysique et techniques spatiales – observatoire de Meudon
Publications

Loriette, V., J. P. Roger, et al. (1994). “PROBING OF LOW-LOSS MATERIALS AT 1.064-MU-M FOR INTERFEROMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES DETECTION.” Journal De Physique Iv 4(C7): 631-634.

Caron, B., A. Dominjon, et al. (1995). “STATUS OF THE VIRGO EXPERIMENT.” Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section a-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment 360(1-2): 258-262.

Loriette, V. (1995). “TEST OF MIRROR PAIR REFLECTIVITY COEFFICIENT EQUALITY AND HOMOGENEITY FOR INTERFEROMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTORS.” Journal of Optics-Nouvelle Revue D Optique 26(1): 35-38.

Caron, B., A. Dominjon, et al. (1996). “Status of the VIRGO experiment.” Nuclear Physics B: 107-109.

Gounelle, M., V. Loriette, et al. (1996). “A compensated optical profilometer for wavefront control of Virgo gravitational wave antenna optics.” Measurement Science & Technology 7(7): 1032-1037.

Caron, B., A. Dominjon, et al. (1997). “The VIRGO interferometer for gravitational wave detection.” Nuclear Physics B: 167-175.

Caron, B., A. Dominjon, et al. (1997). “The Virgo interferometer.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 14(6): 1461-1469.

Loriette, V. and P. Gleyzes (1997). “Simulation of laser beam propagation through a Fabry-Perot interferometer.” Journal of Optics-Nouvelle Revue D Optique 28(1): 6-12.

Gleyzes, P., V. Loriette, et al. (1998). “Roughness measurements in the picometric range using a polarization interferometer and a multichannel lock-in detection technique.” International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture 38(5-6): 715-717.

Loriette, V. (1998). “Optical metrology tools for the Virgo project – Introduction.” Annales De Physique 23(2): 5-+.

Loriette, V. (1998). “Wave-front analysis.” Annales De Physique 23(2): 101-143.

Loriette, V. and R. Nahoum (1998). “High-sensitivity reflectometer at 1.064 mu m for testing the homogeneity of the optical components of gravitational wave antennas.” Journal of Optics-Nouvelle Revue D Optique 29(4): 268-274.

Benabid, F., M. Notcutt, et al. (2000). “X-ray induced absorption of high-purity sapphire and investigation of the origin of the residual absorption at 1064 nm.” Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics 33(6): 589-594.

de Villele, G. and V. Loriette (2000). “Birefringence imaging with imperfect benches: application to large-scale birefringence measurements.” Applied Optics 39(22): 3864-3874.

Loriette, V. (2000). “Point defect 3D mapping in thick transparent substrates.” Journal of Optics a-Pure and Applied Optics 2(2): 70-76.

Braxmaier, C., O. Pradl, et al. (2001). “Proposed test of the time independence of the fundamental constants alpha and m(e)/m(p) using monolithic resonators.” Physical Review D 64(4).

Loriette, V. and A. C. Boccara (2001). “A common path interferometer for testing the optical thickness of possibly birefringent transparent substrates.” Measurement Science & Technology 12(2): 201-212.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2002). “The present status of the VIRGO Central Interferometer.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 19(7): 1421-1428.

Bozzi, A., C. Bourgoin, et al. (2002). “Last stage control and mechanical transfer function measurement of the VIRGO suspensions.” Review of Scientific Instruments 73(5): 2143-2149.

Vabre, L., V. Loriette, et al. (2002). “Imagery of local defects in multilayer components by short coherence length interferometry.” Optics Letters 27(21): 1899-1901.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2003). “Status of VIRGO.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 20(17): S609-S616.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2003). “Data analysis methods for non-Gaussian, nonstationary and nonlinear features and their application to VIRGO.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 20(17): S915-S924.

Beauville, F., D. Buskulic, et al. (2003). “Low loss coatings for the VIRGO large mirrors.” Advances in Optical Thin Films 5250: 483-492.

Brillet, A., J. Y. Vinet, et al. (2003). “Virtual gravitational wave interferometers with actual mirrors.” Physical Review D 67(10).

Loriette, V. and D. Boccara (2003). “Absorption of low-loss optical materials measured at 1064 nm by a position-modulated collinear photothermal detection technique.” Applied Optics 42(4): 649-656.

Moreau, J., V. Loriette, et al. (2003). “Full-field birefringence imaging by thermal-light polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography. I. Theory.” Applied Optics 42(19): 3800-3810.

Moreau, J., V. Loriette, et al. (2003). “Full-field birefringence imaging by thermal-light polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography. II. Instrument and results.” Applied Optics 42(19): 3811-3818.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2004). “Status of VIRGO.” Gravitational Wave and Particle Astrophysics Detectors 5500: 58-69.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2004). “The commissioning of the central interferometer of the Virgo gravitational wave detector.” Astroparticle Physics 21(1): 1-22.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2004). “A local control system for the test masses of the Virgo gravitational wave detector.” Astroparticle Physics 20(6): 617-628.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2004). “First locking of the Virgo central area interferometer with suspension hierarchical control.” Astroparticle Physics 20(6): 629-640.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2004). “Status of VIRGO.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(5): S385-S394.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2004). “Results of the Virgo central interferometer commissioning.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(5): S395-S402.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2004). “The last-stage suspension of the mirrors for the gravitational wave antenna Virgo.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(5): S425-S432.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2004). “Properties of seismic noise at the Virgo site.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(5): S433-S440.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2004). “Search for inspiralling binary events in the Virgo Engineering Run data.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(5): S709-S716.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2004). “Lock acquisition of the central interferometer of the gravitational wave detector Virgo.” Astroparticle Physics 21(5): 465-477.

Beauville, F., D. Buskulic, et al. (2004). “The VIRGO large mirrors: a challenge for low loss coatings.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(5): S935-S945.

Beauville, F., D. Buskulic, et al. (2004). “Status of the Virgo Experiment.” Astroparticle, Particle and Space Physics , Detectors and Medical Physics Applications: 277-287.

Moreau, J. and V. Loriette (2004). “Confocal thermal-lens microscope.” Optics Letters 29(13): 1488-1490.

Yvert, M., F. Acernese, et al. (2004). “A first test of a sine-Hough method for the detection of pulsars in binary systems using the E4 Virgo engineering run data.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(5): S717-S727.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2005). “The Virgo detector.” IFAE 2005: 17th Italian Meeting on High Energy Physics 794: 307-310.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2005). “NAP: a tool for noise data analysis. Application to Virgo engineering runs.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(18): S1041-S1049.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2005). “A first study of environmental noise coupling to the Virgo interferometer.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(18): S1069-S1077.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2005). “Testing the detection pipelines for inspirals with Virgo commissioning run C4 data.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(18): S1139-S1148.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2005). “A simple line detection algorithm applied to Virgo data.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(18): S1189-S1196.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2005). “Status of Virgo.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(18): S869-S880.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2005). “Virgo status and commissioning results.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(10): S185-S191.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2005). “Virgo and the worldwide search for gravitational waves.” General Relativity and Gravitational Physics 751: 92-100.

Braccini, S., L. Barsotti, et al. (2005). “Measurement of the seismic attenuation performance of the VIRGO Superattenuator.” Astroparticle Physics 23(6): 557-565.

Loriette, V. (2005). “An introduction to gravitational-wave astronomy.” Optics in Astrophysics 198: 307-325.

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2006). “Testing Virgo burst detection tools on commissioning run data.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(8): S197-S205.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2006). “Length sensing and control in the Virgo gravitational wave interferometer.” Ieee Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 55(6): 1985-1995.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2006). “The Virgo automatic alignment system.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(8): S91-S101.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2006). “The variable finesse locking technique.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(8): S85-S89.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2006). “The status of VIRGO.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(8): S63-S69.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2006). “The Virgo status.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(19): S635-S642.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2006). “Normal/independent noise in VIRGO data.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(19): S829-S836.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2006). “Status of Virgo.” Taup 2005: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics 39: 32-35.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2006). “The status of coalescing binaries search code in Virgo, and the analysis of C5 data.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(8): S187-S196.

Moreau, J., J. Bancourt, et al. (2006). “Map of spatial-dispersion induced birefringence losses in single-crystal silicon.” European Physical Journal-Applied Physics 36(2): 189-192.

Moreau, J. and V. Loriette (2006). “Confocal dual-beam thermal-lens microscope: Model and experimental results.” Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Part 1-Regular Papers Brief Communications & Review Papers 45(9A): 7141-7151.

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2007). “Measurement of the optical parameters of the Virgo interferometer.” Applied Optics 46(17): 3466-3484.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2007). “The Virgo interferometric gravitational antenna.” Optics and Lasers in Engineering 45(4): 478-487.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2007). “Data quality studies for burst analysis of Virgo data acquired during Weekly Science Runs.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(19): S415-S422.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2007). “Analysis of noise lines in the Virgo C7 data.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(19): S433-S443.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2007). “Coincidence analysis between periodic source candidates in C6 and C7 Virgo data.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(19): S491-S499.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2007). “Improving the timing precision for inspiral signals found by interferometric gravitational wave detectors.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(19): S617-S625.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2007). “Gravitational waves by gamma-ray bursts and the virgo detector: the case of GRB 050915a.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(19): S671-S679.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2007). “Status of coalescing binaries search activities in Virgo.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(23): 5767-5775.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2007). “Data acquisition system of the Virgo gravitational waves interferometric detector.” 2007 15th Ieee-Npss Real-Time Conference, Vols 1 and 2: 596-603.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2007). “The real-time distributed control of the Virgo interferometric detector of gravitational waves.” 2007 15th Ieee-Npss Real-Time Conference, Vols 1 and 2: 391-397.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2007). “Status of Virgo detector.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(19): S381-S388.

Abbott, B., R. Abbott, et al. (2008). “Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(11).

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2008). “Virgo status.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(18).

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2008). “Noise studies during the first Virgo science run and after.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(18).

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2008). “Lock acquisition of the Virgo gravitational wave detector.” Astroparticle Physics 30(1): 29-38.

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2008). “Search for gravitational waves associated with GRB 050915a using the Virgo detector.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(22).

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2008). “First joint gravitational wave search by the AURIGA-EXPLORER-NAUTILUS-Virgo Collaboration.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(20).

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2008). “Status of Virgo.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(11).

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2008). “VIRGO: a large interferometer for Gravitational Wave detection started its first scientific run – art. no. 032007.” Taup2007: Tenth International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics 120: 32007-32007.

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2008). “In-vacuum optical isolation changes by heating in a Faraday isolator.” Applied Optics 47(31): 5853-5861.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2008). “Data acquisition system of the Virgo gravitational waves interferometric detector.” Ieee Transactions on Nuclear Science 55(1): 225-232.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2008). “The real-time distributed control of the Virgo interferometric detector of gravitational waves.” Ieee Transactions on Nuclear Science 55(1): 302-310.

Acernese, F., P. Amico, et al. (2008). “The Virgo 3 km interferometer for gravitational wave detection.” Journal of Optics a-Pure and Applied Optics 10(6).

Bignotto, M., M. Bonaldi, et al. (2008). “A cross-correlation method to search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and Virgo.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(11).

Boccara, C., V. Loriette, et al. (2008). “From cell to organ: optical imagery.” Biofutur(285): 45-48.

Rodriguez, P. F. G., E. Sepulveda, et al. (2008). “Axial coding in full-field microscopy using three-dimensional structured illumination implemented with no moving parts.” Optics Letters 33(14): 1617-1619.

Tauber, C., P. F. G. Rodriguez, et al. (2008). “Fast and Automatic Reconstruction of Structured Illumination Microscopy Images with Multiscale Products.” 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vols 1-6: 797-800.

Abbott, B. P., R. Abbott, et al. (2009). “An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin.” Nature 460(7258): 990-994.

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2009). “Gravitational wave burst search in the Virgo C7 data.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 26(8).

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2009). “Laser with an in-loop relative frequency stability of 1.0×10(-21) on a 100-ms time scale for gravitational-wave detection.” Physical Review A 79(5).

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2009). “Cleaning the Virgo sampled data for the search of periodic sources of gravitational waves.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 26(20).

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2009). “Control of the laser frequency of the Virgo gravitational wave interferometer with an in-loop relative frequency stability of 1.0 x 10(-21) on a 100 ms time scale.” 2009 Joint Meeting of the European Frequency and Time Forum and the Ieee International Frequency Control Symposium, Vols 1 and 2: 760-763.

Abadie, J., B. P. Abbott, et al. (2010). “SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE INSPIRAL SIGNALS ASSOCIATED WITH SHORT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS DURING LIGO’S FIFTH AND VIRGO’S FIRST SCIENCE RUN.” Astrophysical Journal 715(2): 1453-1461.

Abadie, J., B. P. Abbott, et al. (2010). “All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run.” Physical Review D 81(10).

Abbott, B. P., R. Abbott, 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): 1438-1452.

Abbott, B. P., R. Abbott, et al. (2010). “SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM KNOWN PULSARS WITH SCIENCE RUN 5 LIGO DATA.” Astrophysical Journal 713(1): 671-685.

Accadia, T., F. Acernese, et al. (2010). “Status and perspectives of the Virgo gravitational wave detector.” Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (Taup2009) 203.

Accadia, T., F. Acernese, et al. (2010). “In-vacuum Faraday isolation remote tuning.” Applied Optics 49(25): 4780-4790.

Accadia, T., F. Acernese, et al. (2010). “Commissioning status of the Virgo interferometer (vol 27, 084002, 2010).” Classical and Quantum Gravity 27(14).

Accadia, T., F. Acernese, et al. (2010). “Noise from scattered light in Virgo’s second science run data.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 27(19).

Acernese, F., M. Alshourbagy, et al. (2010). “Automatic Alignment for the first science run of the Virgo interferometer.” Astroparticle Physics 33(3): 131-139.

Acernese, F., F. Antonucci, et al. (2010). “Performances of the Virgo interferometer longitudinal control system.” Astroparticle Physics 33(2): 75-80.

Acernese, F., F. Antonucci, et al. (2010). “Measurements of Superattenuator seismic isolation by Virgo interferometer.” Astroparticle Physics 33(3): 182-189.