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The recent discovery of gravitational waves (GW) by LIGO has impressively launched the novel field of gravitational astronomy and it allowed us to glimpse at exciting objects we could so far only speculate about. Further sensitivity…

The detection of gravitational waves has ushered in a new era of observing the universe. Quantum resource advantages offer significant enhancements to the sensitivity of gravitational wave observatories. While squeezed states for…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-18 Li Gao , Li-ang Zheng , Bo Lu , Shaoping Shi , Long Tian , Yaohui Zheng

Laser light with squeezed quantum uncertainty is a powerful tool for interferometric sensing. A routine application can be found in gravitational wave observatories. A significant quantum advantage is only achievable if a large fraction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Pascal Gewecke , Jascha Zander , Roman Schnabel

For broadband quantum noise reduction of gravitational-wave detectors, frequency-dependent squeezed vacuum states realized using a filter cavity is a mature technique and will be implemented in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo from the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-11 Naoki Aritomi , Matteo Leonardi , Eleonora Capocasa , Yuhang Zhao , Raffaele Flaminio

Gravitational waves at kilohertz and higher frequencies offer a unique probe of the early Universe at temperatures well beyond the reach of the cosmic microwave background, corresponding to energy scales $\gtrsim 10^9$GeV. Existing detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Jan Heisig

In a recent table-top experiment we demonstrated the compatibility of three advanced interferometer techniques for gravitational wave detection, namely power-recycling, detuned signal-recycling and squeezed field injection. The…

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…

Direct observations of gravitational waves at frequencies below 10 Hz will play crucial roles for fully exploiting the potential of gravitational wave astronomy. One approach to pursue this direction is the utilization of laser…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Kiwamu Izumi , Masa-Katsu Fujimoto

We demonstrate an unconditional high-fidelity teleporter capable of preserving the broadband entanglement in an optical squeezed state. In particular, we teleport a squeezed state of light and observe $-0.8 \pm 0.2$dB of squeezing in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hidehiro Yonezawa , Samuel L. Braunstein , Akira Furusawa

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

Proposed near-future upgrades of the current advanced interferometric gravitational wave detectors include the usage of frequency dependent squeezed light to reduce the current sensitivity-limiting quantum noise. We quantify and describe…

We present a new differential mechanical gradiometer for the detection of low-frequency Gravitational Waves. The frequency range is 0.05 to 1 Hz, a frequency gap not covered either by future space-based detectors such as LISA or by…

Squeezed states of light have been successfully employed in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors to reduce quantum noise, thus becoming one of the most promising options for extending the astrophysical reach of the generation of…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-13 Patrick Kwee , John Miller , Tomoki Isogai , Lisa Barsotti , Matthew Evans

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

Increased interest in pushing the frontier of gravitational wave searches to higher frequencies (kHz and beyond) has resulted in a variety of different proposed experimental concepts. A significant fraction of them are based on the coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-06 Valerie Domcke , Joachim Kopp

We study the photon counting noise in optical interferometers used for gravitational wave detection. In order to reduce quantum noise a squeezed vacuum state is injected into the usually unused input port. Here, we specifically investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michael Weyrauch , Volodymyr G. Voronov

Squeezed vacuum states are now employed in gravitational-wave interferometric detectors, enhancing their sensitivity and thus enabling richer astrophysical observations. In future observing runs, the detectors will incorporate a filter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 Dhruva Ganapathy , Victoria Xu , Wenxuan Jia , Chris Whittle , Maggie Tse , Lisa Barsotti , Matthew Evans , Lee McCuller

Earth-based gravitational-wave detectors will be limited by quantum noise in a large part of their spectrum. The most promising technique to achieve a broadband reduction of such noise is the injection of a frequency dependent squeezed…

Gravitational wave detectors (GWDs), which have brought about a new era in astronomy, have reached such a level of maturity that further improvement necessitates quantum-noise-evading techniques. Numerous proposals to this end have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-26 Emil Zeuthen , Eugene S. Polzik , Farid Ya. Khalili

The gravitational waveform of merging binary neutron stars encodes information about extreme states of matter. Probing these gravitational emissions requires the gravitational-wave detectors to have high sensitivity above 1 kHz. Fortunately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-12 Haixing Miao , Huan Yang , Denis Martynov