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Matter-wave interferometry is highly susceptible to inertial acceleration noises arising from the vibration of the experimental apparatus. There are various methods for noise suppression. In this paper, we propose leveraging the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Meng-Zhi Wu , Marko Toroš , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

We present a high-precision temporal-spatial phase-demodulation algorithm for phase-shifting interferometry (PSI) affected by random/systematic phase-stepping errors. Laser interferometers in standard optical-shops suffer from several error…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-11 Manuel Servin , Moises Padilla , Guillermo Garnica , Gonzalo Paez

Interferometers with kilometer-scale arms have been built for gravitational-wave detections on the ground; ones with much longer arms are being planned for space-based detection. One fundamental motivation for long baseline interferometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-06 Kentaro Somiya , Keisuke Goda , Yanbei Chen , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov

Technical and environmental noise in ground-based laser interferometers designed for gravitational-wave observations like Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA, can manifest as narrow (<1Hz) or broadband ($10'$s or even $100'$s of Hz)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Christina Reissel , Siddharth Soni , Muhammed Saleem , Michael Coughlin , Philip Harris , Erik Katsavounidis

This paper is the third part of a trilogy dealing with the principles, performance and limitations of what I named "Telescope-Interferometers" (TIs). The basic idea consists in transforming one telescope into a Wavefront Error (WFE) sensing…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-17 Francois Henault

TianQin is a proposed space-based mission for gravitational wave detection, employing a constellation of three drag-free satellites in high Earth orbits to form a laser interferometric observatory. A critical technical challenge is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Yuzhou Fang , Dexuan Zhang , Dezhi Wang , Xuefeng Zhang , Huizong Duan , Hongyin Li , Junxiang Lian , Guoying Zhao

Tilts of certain elements within a laser interferometer can undesirably couple into measurements as a form of noise, known as tilt-to-length (TTL) coupling. This TTL coupling is anticipated to be one of the primary noise sources in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Henry Wegener , Sarah Paczkowski , Marie-Sophie Hartig , Martin Hewitson , Gerhard Heinzel , Gudrun Wanner

Suppressing the inter-carrier interference (ICI) is crucial for differentially coherent detection in underwater acoustic (UWA) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems due to the fact that the UWA channel is inherently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Yunlong Huang , Yuzhou Li

Ground-based large-aperture telescopes, interferometers, and future Extremely Large Telescopes equipped with adaptive-optics systems provide angular resolution and high-contrast performance that are superior to space-based telescopes at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Hélène Rousseau , Steve Ertel , Denis Defrère , Virginie Faramaz , Kevin Wagner

The aim of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to detect gravitational waves through a phase modulation in long (2.5 Mkm) laser light links between spacecraft. Among other noise sources to be addressed are the phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-14 Jean-Yves Vinet , Nelson Christensen , Nicoleta Dinu-Jaeger , Michel Lintz , Nary Man , Mikhaël Pichot

We address the two issues raised by Bayle, Vallisneri, Babak, and Petiteau (in their gr-qc document arXiv:2106.03976) about our matrix formulation of Time-Delay Interferometry (TDI) (arXiv:2105.02054) \cite{TDJ21}. In so doing we explain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-24 Massimo Tinto , Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Prasanna Joshi

The displacement- and frequency-noise-free interferometer (DFI) is a multiple laser interferometer array for gravitational wave detection free from both the displacement noise of optics and laser frequency noise. So far, partial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 K. Kokeyama , S. Sato , A. Nishizawa , S. Kawamura , Y. Chen , A. Sugamoto

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), space-based gravitational wave observatory involves a complex multidimensional closed-loop dynamical system. Its instrument performance is expected to be less efficiently isolated from platform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-05 Lavinia Heisenberg , Henri Inchauspé , Dam Quang Nam , Orion Sauter , Ricardo Waibel , Peter Wass

Space-based gravitational-wave detectors, such as LISA, record interferometric measurements on widely separated satellites. Their clocks are not synced actively. Instead, clock synchronization is performed in on-ground data processing. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-16 Jan Niklas Reinhardt , Olaf Hartwig , Gerhard Heinzel

The orbiting LISA instrument is designed to detect gravitational waves in the millihertz band, produced by sources including galactic binaries and extreme mass ratio inspirals, among others. The detector consists of three spacecraft, each…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Orion Sauter , Peter Wass , Wiler Sanchez , Henri Inchauspé

Laser phase noise remains a limiting factor in many experimental settings, including metrology, time-keeping, as well as quantum optics. Hitherto this issue was addressed at low frequencies, ranging from well below 1 Hz to maximally 100…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-31 Michał Parniak , Ivan Galinskiy , Timo Zwettler , Eugene S. Polzik

Fourier PCA is Principal Component Analysis of a matrix obtained from higher order derivatives of the logarithm of the Fourier transform of a distribution.We make this method algorithmic by developing a tensor decomposition method for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Navin Goyal , Santosh Vempala , Ying Xiao

Inter satellite laser interferometry is a central component of future space-borne gravity instruments like LISA, eLISA, NGO and future geodesy missions. The inherently small laser wavelength allows to measure distance variations with…

In the data obtained by laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors, transient noise with non-stationary and non-Gaussian features occurs at a high rate. This often results in problems such as detector instability and the hiding…

Vibrations, electromagnetic oscillations and temperature drifts are among the main reasons for dephasing in matter-wave interferometry. Sophisticated interferometry experiments, e.g. with ions or heavy molecules, often require integration…