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LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been designed and constructed to measure gravitational wave strain via differential arm length. The LIGO 4-km Michelson arms with Fabry-Perot cavities have auxiliary length…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-28 Grant David Meadors , Keita Kawabe , Keith Riles

This work extends the Elsner & Wandelt (2013) iterative method for efficient, preconditioner-free Wiener filtering to cases in which the noise covariance matrix is dense, but can be decomposed into a sum whose parts are sparse in convenient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Kevin M. Huffenberger

Isolating ground-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories from environmental disturbances is one of the great challenges of the advanced detector era. In order to directly observe gravitational waves, the detector components…

In early 2024, ESA formally adopted the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) space mission with the aim of measuring gravitational waves emitted in the millihertz range. The constellation employs three spacecraft that exchange laser…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 Shivani Harer , Martin Staab , Hubert Halloin

We study frequency dependent (FD) input-output schemes for signal-recycling interferometers, the baseline design of Advanced LIGO and the current configuration of GEO 600. Complementary to a recent proposal by Harms et al. to use FD input…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alessandra Buonanno , Yanbei Chen

It is shown in the present Letter that the quantum noise due to high laser intensities in Michelson interferometer for gravitational waves detection can be reduced by sending squeezed vacuum states to the 'dark' port of the interferometer.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-27 Yacob Ben-Aryeh

Gravitational-wave observatories around the world are searching for continuous waves: persistent signals from sources such as spinning neutron stars. These searches use sophisticated statistical techniques to look for weak signals in noisy…

The suspension noise in interferometric gravitational wave detectors is caused by losses at the top and the bottom attachments of each suspension fiber. We use the Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem to argue that by careful positioning of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vladimir B. Braginsky , Yuri Levin , Sergey Vyatchanin

With the advent of gravitational-wave astronomy and the discovery of more compact binary coalescences, data quality improvement techniques are desired to handle the complex and overwhelming noise in gravitational wave (GW) observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-21 He Wang , Yue Zhou , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Kuan Guo , Zhixiang Ren

We propose a detuned Fabry-Perot cavity, pumped through both the mirrors, as \textit{a toy model} of the gravitational-wave (GW) detector partially free from displacement noise of the test masses. It is demonstrated that the noise of cavity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Sergey P. Tarabrin , Sergey P. Vyatchanin

Vacuum quantum fluctuations impose a fundamental limit on the sensitivity of gravitational-wave interferometers, which rank among the most sensitive precision measurement devices ever built. The injection of conventional squeezed vacuum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-16 Chris Whittle , Kentaro Komori , Dhruva Ganapathy , Lee McCuller , Lisa Barsotti , Nergis Mavalvala , Matthew Evans

The displacement-noise-free interferometer (DFI) is designed to eliminate all displacement-induced noise while retaining sensitivity to gravitational wave (GW) signals. Ground-based DFIs suffer from physical arm-length limitations,…

We have developed a scheme for reducing LIGO suspension thermal noise close to violin-mode resonances. The idea is to monitor directly the thermally-induced motion of a small portion of (a ``point'' on) each suspension fiber, thereby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-31 D. H. Santamore , Yuri Levin

A key issue in developing pendular Fabry-Perot interferometers as very accurate displacement measurement devices, is the noise level. The Fabry-Perot pendulums are the most promising device to detect gravitational waves, and therefore the…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-01 Paolo Addesso , Vincenzo Pierro , Giovanni Filatrella

The multichannel Wiener filter (MWF) and its variations have been extensively applied to binaural hearing aids. However, its major drawback is the distortion of the binaural cues of the residual noise, changing the original acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 Johnny Werner , Marcio H. Costa

LIGO and Virgo recently completed searches for gravitational waves at their initial target sensitivities, and soon Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo will commence observations with even better capabilities. In the search for short duration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-11 Parameswaran Ajith , Tomoki Isogai , Nelson Christensen , Rana Adhikari , Aaron B. Pearlman , Alex Wein , Alan J. Weinstein , Ben Yuan

The recent discovery of merging black holes suggests that a stochastic gravitational-wave background is within reach of the advanced detector network operating at design sensitivity. However, correlated magnetic noise from Schumann…

Quantum-information processing and computation with bosonic qubits are corruptible by noise channels. Using interferometers and photon-subtraction gadgets (PSGs) accompanied by linear amplification and attenuation, we establish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Y. S. Teo , S. U. Shringarpure , S. Cho , H. Jeong

Continuous gravitational wave searches with terrestrial, long-baseline interferometers are hampered by long-lived, narrowband features in the power spectral density of the detector noise, known as lines. Candidate GW signals which overlap…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Tom Kimpson , Sofia Suvorova , Hannah Middleton , Changrong Liu , Andrew Melatos , Robin J. Evans , William Moran

Interferometric gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO need to be able to measure changes in their arm lengths of order $10^{-18}~$m or smaller. This requires very high laser power in order to raise the signal above shot noise. One…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 S. Biscans , S. Gras , C. D. Blair , J. Driggers , M. Evans , P. Fritschel , T. Hardwick , G. Mansell