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  "path": "/editor-highlights/how-space-plasma-can-bend-the-laser-of-gravitational-wave-detectors",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-24T12:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://eos.org",
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    "lasers",
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  "textContent": "This schematic of the receiver plane illustrates the definition of the laser deflection angle and the laser transverse displacement. The ideal laser beam should be parallel to the z-axis and pass through the intersection point of the x- and y-axis. However, when the real laser beam passes through the space plasma, it generates a deflection of the laser direction (red dashed line) and a displacement of the beam center (red cross). This can introduce pointing accuracy noise in the gravitational wave detection. Credit: Zhou et al. [2026], Figure 2",
  "title": "How Space Plasma Can Bend the Laser of Gravitational Wave Detectors"
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