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The detection of kilohertz-band gravitational waves promises discoveries in astrophysics, exotic matter, and cosmology. To improve the kilohertz quantum noise-limited sensitivity of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, we…

We examine the use of optomechanically-generated squeezing to obtain a sensitivity enhancement for interferometers in the gravitational-wave band. The intrinsic dispersion characteristics of optomechanical squeezing around the mechanical…

Current ground-based interferometers are optimized for sensitivity from a few tens of Hz to about 1 kHz. While they are not currently utilized for GW detection, interferometric detectors also feature narrow bands of strong sensitivity at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Christopher M. Jungkind , Brian C. Seymour , Andrew Laeuger , Yanbei Chen

There exists the standard quantum limit (SQL), derived from Heisenberg's uncertainty relation, in the sensitivity of laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors. However, in the context of a full quantum-mechanical approach, SQL can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Atsushi Nishizawa , Seiji Kawamura , Masa-aki Sakagami

The quantum nature of the electromagnetic field imposes a fundamental limit on the sensitivity of optical precision measurements such as spectroscopy, microscopy, and interferometry. The so-called quantum limit is set by the zero-point…

We investigate the advantage of using squeezed input light for generating gravity-induced entanglement (GIE) through Fourier-domain analysis. Based on the findings of Ref.~\cite{Miki2024}, which demonstrated the feasibility of detecting GIE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Kosei Hatakeyama , Daisuke Miki , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Quantum vacuum fluctuations impose strict limits on precision displacement measurements, those of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors among them. Introducing squeezed states into an interferometer's readout port can improve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Eric Oelker , Tomoki Isogai , John Miller , Maggie Tse , Lisa Barsotti , Nergis Mavalvala , Matthew Evans

Gravitational wave interferometers are complex instruments, requiring years of commissioning to achieve the required sensitivities for the detection of gravitational waves, of order 10^-21 in dimensionless detector strain, in the tens of Hz…

We consider enhancing the sensitivity of future gravitational-wave detectors by adding optical filters inside the signal-recycling cavity -- an intracavity filtering scheme, which coherently feeds the sideband signal back to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-03 Mengyao Wang , Haixing Miao , Andreas Freise , Yanbei Chen

We consider a recent scheme of gravitational wave detection using atomic interferometers as inertial sensors, and reinvestigate its configuration using the concept of sensitivity functions. We show that such configuration can suppress noise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-20 Biao Tang , Baocheng Zhang , Lin Zhou , Jin Wang , Mingsheng Zhan

We demonstrate the generation of broad-band continuous-wave optical squeezing down to 200Hz using a below threshold optical parametric oscillator (OPO). The squeezed state phase was controlled using a noise locking technique. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. McKenzie , N. Grosse , W. P. Bowen , S. E. Whitcomb , M. B. Gray , D. E. McClelland , P. K. Lam

We present an overview of quantum noise in gravitational wave interferometers. Gravitational wave detectors are extensively modified variants of a Michelson interferometer and the quantum noise couplings are strongly influenced by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Corbitt , Nergis Mavalvala

The shot-noise limited peak sensitivity of cavity-enhanced interferometric measurement devices, such as gravitational-wave detectors, can be improved by increasing the cavity finesse, even when comparing fixed intra-cavity light powers. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Mikhail Korobko , Lisa Kleybolte , Stefan Ast , Haixing Miao , Yanbei Chen , Roman Schnabel

We calculate the utility of high-frequency squeezed-state enhanced two-frequency interferometry for low-frequency phase measurement. To use the high-frequency sidebands of the squeezed light, a two-frequency intense laser is used in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Zehui Zhai , Jiangrui Gao

We propose and demonstrate a coherent control scheme for stable phase locking of squeezed vacuum fields. We focus on sideband fields at frequencies from 10Hz to 10kHz which is a frequency regime of particular interest in gravitational wave…

We propose two distinct atom interferometer gravitational wave detectors, one terrestrial and another satellite-based, utilizing the core technology of the Stanford $10 \text{m}$ atom interferometer presently under construction. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-22 Savas Dimopoulos , Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

Time-delay interferometry is put forward to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of space-borne gravitational wave detectors by canceling the large laser phase noise with different combinations of measured data. Based on the Michelson data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Xiao-Yu Lu , Yu-Jie Tan , Cheng-Gang Shao

High precision interferometers are the building blocks of precision metrology and the ultimate interferometric sensitivity is limited by the quantum noise. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a compact quantum interferometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Xiaojie Zuo , Zhihui Yan , Yanni Feng , Jingxu Ma , Xiaojun Jia , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

Dual recycling is an advanced optical technique to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio of laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors in a limited bandwidth. To optimise the center of this band with respect to Fourier frequencies of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Freise , G. Heinzel , K. A. Strain , J. Mizuno , K. D. Skeldon , H. Lueck , B. Willke , R. Schilling , A. Ruediger , W. Winkler , K. Danzmann

We study the effects of frequency-dependent squeeze amplitude attenuation and squeeze angle rotation by electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) on gravitational wave (GW) interferometers. We propose the use of low-pass, band-pass,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eugeniy E. Mikhailov , Keisuke Goda , Thomas Corbitt , Nergis Mavalvala