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We demonstrate that speedmeter, based on double pumped resonant Sagnac interferometer, can be used as a displacement noise free gravitational-wave (GW) detector. The displacement noise of cavity mirrors can be completely excluded through a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-08-27 Sergey P. Vyatchanin

Active ring laser gyroscopes (RLG) operating on the principle of the optical Sagnac effect are preferred instruments for a range of applications, such as inertial guidance systems, seismology, and geodesy, that require both high bias…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-10 Maria Chernysheva , Srikanth Sugavanam , Sergei K. Turitsyn

Brillouin spectroscopy emerges as a promising non-invasive tool for nanoscale imaging and sensing. One-dimensional semiconductor superlattice structures are eminently used for selectively enhancing the generation or detection of phonons at…

Advanced gravitational-wave detectors that have made groundbreaking discoveries are Michelson interferometers with resonating optical cavities as their arms. As light travels at finite speed, these cavities are optimal for enhancing signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Teng Zhang , Huan Yang , Denis Martynov , Patricia Schmidt , Haixing Miao

The Einstein Telescope is the next-generation gravitational wave interferometer which, compared to current detectors, will enable the observation of gravitational signals at lower frequencies with a sensitivity improved by approximately two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-12 Federico Armato , Barbara Garaventa , Andrea Chincarini

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors use laser interferometry to detect the minuscule distance change between test masses caused by gravitational waves. Stray light that scatters back into the interferometer causes transient signals…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-05 André Lohde , Daniel Voigt , Oliver Gerberding

One of the key science goals of advanced gravitational-wave detectors is to observe a stochastic gravitational-wave background. However, recent work demonstrates that correlated magnetic fields from Schumann resonances can produce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Eric Thrane , Nelson Christensen , Robert M. S. Schofield , Anamaria Effler

Gravitational-wave detectors use state-of-the-art quantum technologies to reduce the noise induced by vacuum fluctuations, via injection of squeezed states of light. Future detectors, such as Einstein Telescope, may require the use of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Jacques Ding , Eleonora Capocasa , Isander Ahrend , Fangfei Liu , Yuhang Zhao , Matteo Barsuglia

In this paper, we present a successful implementation of a subtraction-noise projection method into a simple, simulated data analysis pipeline of a gravitational-wave search. We investigate the problem to reveal a weak stochastic background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jan Harms , Christoph Mahrdt , Markus Otto , Malte Priess

Certain alternative theories of gravity predict that gravitational waves will disperse as they travel from the source to the observer. The recent binary black hole observations by Advanced-LIGO have set limits on a modified dispersion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-05 Anuradha Samajdar , K. G. Arun

The DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is designed to detect gravitational waves at frequencies between 0.1 and 10 Hz. In this frequency band, one of the most important science targets is the detection of…

The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers is expected to generate a bounty of new astrophysical discoveries, with sensitivities and bandwidths greatly improved compared to current-generation detectors. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Elenna Capote , Louis Dartez , Derek Davis

The ongoing global effort to detect gravitational waves continues to push the limits of precision measurement while aiming to provide a new tool for understanding both astrophysics and fundamental physics. Squeezed states of light offer a…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-09 M. Evans , L. Barsotti , J. Harms , P. Kwee , H. Miao

The Sagnac Interferometer has historically been used for detecting non-reciprocal phenomena, such as rotation. We demonstrate an apparatus in which this technique is employed for high resolution measurements of the Magneto-Optical Polar…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexander Fried , Martin Fejer , Aharon Kapitulnik

Future interferometric gravitational wave detectors will make use of the coupling between shot noise and radiation pressure noise that produces a squeezed output for the quantum noise at the dark-port of the interferometer allowing these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter T. Beyersdorf

Space-borne gravitational-wave telescopes are key to extend the observation band below $10\,\mathrm{Hz}$. The use of inter-satellite optical cavities linked by heterodyne interferometry is a promising approach to reach the sensitivity level…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yutaro Enomoto , Subaru Shibai , Kiwamu Izumi

The binary neutron star coalescence GW170817 was observed by gravitational wave detectors during the inspiral phase but sensitivity in the 1-5 kHz band was insufficient to observe the expected nuclear matter signature of the merger itself,…

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Given the state-of-the-art optics, the optical losses define the lower bound of the best possible quantum-limited detector sensitivity. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Teng Zhang , Joe Bentley , Haixing Miao

The sensitivity of future gravitational wave interferometers is expected to be limited through-out the detection band by quantum vacuum fluctuations, which can be reduced by quantum non-demolition methods such as squeezed vacuum injection.…

Energy consumption and hardware cost of signal digitization together with the management of the resulting data volume form serious issues for high-rate measurement systems with multiple sensors. Switching to binary sensing front-ends…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-16 Manuel S. Stein