The 10m AEI prototype facility A brief overview
Abstract
The AEI 10 m prototype interferometer facility is currently being constructed at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, Germany. It aims to perform experiments for future gravitational wave detectors using advanced techniques. Seismically isolated benches are planned to be interferometrically interconnected and stabilized, forming a low-noise testbed inside a 100 m^3 ultra-high vacuum system. A well-stabilized high power laser will perform differential position readout of 100 g test masses in a 10 m suspended arm-cavity enhanced Michelson interferometer at the crossover of measurement (shot) noise and backaction (quantum radiation pressure) noise, the so-called Standard Quantum Limit (SQL). Such a sensitivity enables experiments in the highly topical field of macroscopic quantum mechanics. In this article we introduce the experimental facility and describe the methods employed, technical details of subsystems will be covered in future papers.
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@article{arxiv.1111.7252,
title = {The 10m AEI prototype facility A brief overview},
author = {Tobias Westphal and Gerald Bergmann and Alessandro Bertolini and Michael Born and Yanbei Chen and Alan V Cumming and Liam Cunningham and Katrin Dahl and Christian Graef and Giles Hammond and Gerhard Heinzel and Stefan Hild and Sabina Huttner and Russel Jones and Fumiko Kawazoe and Sina Koehlenbeck and Gerrit Kuehn and Harald Lueck and Kasem Mossavi and Jan H Poeld and Kentaro Somiya and Marielle van Veggel and Alexander Wanner and Benno Willke and Ken A Strain and Stefan Gossler and Karsten Danzmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.7252},
year = {2017}
}