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In 1971, a small experimental group at Munich began with the development of a Weber-type resonant bar antenna for the detection of gravitational waves In coincidence experiments between Munich and Frascati (with the highest sensitivities achieved with room temperature bars) no events have been found [2]. As a possibility to improve the sensitivity by several orders of magnitude, work on laser interferometry was started in 1975 [3]. Pioneering work on this approach had been done by Forward [4] and Weiss [5].
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Billing, H., Winkler, W., Schilling, R., Rüdiger, A., Maischberger, K., Schnupp, L. (1983). The Munich Gravitational Wave Detector Using Laser Interferometry. In: Meystre, P., Scully, M.O. (eds) Quantum Optics, Experimental Gravity, and Measurement Theory. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series, vol 94. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3712-6_23
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