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Tilt-to-length (TTL) coupling in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) can generate spurious displacement noise that potentially affects the measurement of gravitational wave signals. In each test mass interferometer, the coupling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Paul Edwards , Megha Dave , Alexander Weaver , Mengyuan Zhao , Paul Fulda , Guido Mueller , Gudrun Wanner

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a proposed space mission, which will use coherent laser beams exchanged between three remote spacecraft to detect and study low-frequency cosmic gravitational radiation. In the low-part of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jeffrey A. Edlund , Massimo Tinto , Andrzej Królak , Gijs Nelemans

The deep integration of quantum communication and fiber-optic sensing is pivotal for the development of next-generation multifunctional and highly reliable secure information infrastructure. Here, we present a Sagnac-loop integrated system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Weiqian Zhao , Wenzhao Huang , Zifu Su , Fangyuan Li , Qirong Jiang , Cheng Yuan , Yafei Yu , Jindong Wang

We describe a simple framework to assess the LISA scientific performance (more specifically, its sensitivity and expected parameter-estimation precision for prescribed gravitational-wave signals) under the assumption of failure of one or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Michele Vallisneri , Jeff Crowder , Massimo Tinto

The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) presents a novel concept for observing gravitational waves from astrophysical sources at sub-Hertz frequencies. Compared to the Earth, the seismic environment of the moon, while uncertain, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Brett N. Shapiro

Lasers with hertz-level linewidths on timescales up to seconds are critical for precision metrology, timekeeping, and manipulation of quantum systems. Such frequency stability typically relies on bulk-optic lasers and reference cavities,…

The future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, which has successfully passed Mission Formulation phase, is in planning to be launched in 2030s. One of the ubiquitous LISA sources are the white-dwarf binaries (WDB) of which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Sweta Shah , Valeriya Korol , Thomas Kupfer

Low-noise temperature measurements at frequencies in the milli-Hertz range are needed in the LISA and LISA PathFinder (LPF). The required temperature stability for LISA is around 10 uK/sqrt(Hz) at frequencies down to 0.1 mHz. In this paper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-25 J. Sanjuan , A. Lobo , J. Ramos-Castro

Interspacecraft ranging is crucial for the suppression of laser frequency noise via time-delay interferometry (TDI). So far, the effects of on-board delays and ambiguities on the LISA ranging observables were neglected in LISA modelling and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Jan Niklas Reinhardt , Martin Staab , Kohei Yamamoto , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Aurélien Hees , Olaf Hartwig , Karsten Wiesner , Sweta Shah , Gerhard Heinzel

The current planned space-based gravitational-wave detectors require a bidirectional optical connection, referred to as Backlink, between two adjacent optical benches to provide a mutual phase reference for the local interferometric…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be the first space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory. It will measure gravitational wave signals in the frequency regime from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. The success of these measurements will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Marie-Sophie Hartig , Sarah Paczkowski , Martin Hewitson , Gerhard Heinzel , Gudrun Wanner

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a future space-based interferometric gravitational-wave detector consisting of three spacecraft in a triangular configuration. The interferometric measurements of path length changes between…

The orbital motion of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) introduces modulations into the observed gravitational wave signal. These modulations can be used to determine the location and orientation of a gravitational wave source.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Neil J. Cornish , Louis J. Rubbo

Time-delay interferometry (TDI) suppresses laser frequency noise by forming linear combinations of time-shifted interferometric measurements. The time-shift operation is implemented by interpolating discretely sampled data. To enable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Martin Staab , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Olaf Hartwig , Aurélien Hees , Marc Lilley , Graham Woan , Peter Wolf

Arm-locking is a technique for stabilizing the frequency of a laser in an inter-spacecraft interferometer by using the spacecraft separation as the frequency reference. A candidate technique for future space-based gravitational wave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 James Ira Thorpe , Kirk McKenzie

One of the atom interferometer gravitational wave missions proposed by Dimopoulos et al.1 in 2008 was called AGIS-Sat. 2. It had a suggested gravitational wave sensitivity set by the atom state detection shot noise level that started at 1…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Peter L. Bender

Current expectations on the signal to noise ratios and masses of supermassive black holes which the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) can observe are based on using in matched filtering only the dominant harmonic of the inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Arun , Bala R. Iyer , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Siddhartha Sinha

We demonstrate a nontraditional design of the Sagnac interferometer by replacing the commonly used beam splitter with a linear-optical Grover multiport. This substitution creates a pole at the origin of the device parameter space with an…

With a laser interferometric gravitational-wave detector in separate free flying spacecraft, the only way to achieve detection is to mitigate the dominant noise arising from the frequency fluctuations of the lasers via postprocessing. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Quentin Baghi , John Baker , Jacob Slutsky , James Ira Thorpe

For space gravitational wave (GW) detection, arm locking is a proposal useful in decreasing the frequency noise of the laser sources for current developing space missions LISA and Taiji/TianQin. In this paper, we study the application of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Jun Nian , Wei-Tou Ni