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Demonstration of a squeezed light enhanced power- and signal-recycled Michelson interferometer

Quantum Physics 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We report on the experimental combination of three advanced interferometer techniques for gravitational wave detection, namely power-recycling, detuned signal-recycling and squeezed field injection. For the first time we experimentally prove the compatibility of especially the latter two. To achieve a broadband non-classical sensitivity improvement we applied a filter cavity for compensation of quadrature rotation. Signal to noise ratio was improved by up to 2.8 dB beyond the coherent state's shot noise. The complete set-up was stably locked for arbitrary times and characterized by injected single-sideband modulation fields.

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@article{arxiv.0707.0166,
  title  = {Demonstration of a squeezed light enhanced power- and signal-recycled Michelson interferometer},
  author = {Henning Vahlbruch and Simon Chelkowski and Boris Hage and Alexander Franzen and Karsten Danzmann and Roman Schnabel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0166},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures