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This paper presents a novel method for laser frequency stabilisation in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission by locking a laser to two stable length references - the arms of the interferometer and an on-board optical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Jobin Thomas Valliyakalayil , Andrew J. H. Sutton , Robert E. Spero , Daniel A. Shaddock , Kirk McKenzie

A polarization-independent reconfigurable frequency selective rasorber (FSR)/absorber with low insertion loss based on diodes is proposed in this paper. The presented structure consists of a lossy layer based on square loops and a bandpass…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Jing Yuan , Xiangkun Kong , Xuemeng Wang , Shunliu Jiang , Lingqi Kong

Optical phase determination is an important and established tool in diverse fields such as astronomy, biology, or quantum optics. There is increasing interest in using a lower number of total photons. However, different noise sources, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Q. Pears Stefano , A. G. Magnoni , D. Rodrigues , J. Tiffenberg , C. Iemmi

To date, frequency-dependent squeezed light has been used to reduce quantum noise in interferometric gravitational wave detectors by 6.1 dB (a factor of two). Future upgrades and detectors aim to both reduce quantum noise by 10 dB (a factor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-28 Kevin Kuns , Daniel Brown

Based on the prior O1-O2 observing runs, about 30% of the data collected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo in the next observing runs are expected to be single-interferometer data, i.e., they will be collected at times when only one detector in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Marco Cavaglia , Sergio Gaudio , Travis Hansen , Kai Staats , Marek Szczepanczyk , Michele Zanolin

In order to expand the astrophysical reach of gravitational wave detectors, several interferometer topologies have been proposed to evade the thermodynamic and quantum mechanical limits in future detectors. In this work, we make a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Haixing Miao , Huan Yang , Rana X Adhikari , Yanbei Chen

It is known by the experience gained from the gravitational wave detector proto-types that the interferometric output signal will be corrupted by a significant amount of non-Gaussian noise, large part of it being essentially composed of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Chassande-Mottin , S. V. Dhurandhar

The Square Kilometre Array's Low Frequency instrument (SKA-LOW) will be the most sensitive aperture array ever used for radio astronomy, and will operate in the under-sampled regime for most of the frequency band where grating-lobes pose…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Benjamin Mort , Fred Dulwich , Nima Razavi-Ghods , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Keith Grainge

Reducing optical losses is crucial for reducing quantum noise in gravitational-wave detectors. Losses are the main source of degradation of the squeezed vacuum. Frequency dependent squeezing obtained via a filter cavity is currently used to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-04 Y. Zhao , M. Vardaro , E. Capocasa , J. Ding , Y. Guo , M. Lequime , M. Barsuglia

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

There has been an increasing interest in developing efficient immersed boundary method (IBM) based on Cartesian grids, recently in the context of high-order methods. IBM based on volume penalization is a robust and easy to implement method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Jiaqing Kou , Esteban Ferrer

This paper studies a full-duplex filter-and-forward (FD-FF) relay system in frequency-selective channels. Conventionally, the loop-back signal at the FD relay is treated as harmful self-interference and needs to be significantly suppressed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Jie Xu , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

The detectors of the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory (LIGO) are broadly limited by the quantum noise and rely on the injection of squeezed states of light to achieve their full sensitivity. Squeezing improvement is…

Radio interferometers observe the Fourier space of the sky, at locations determined by the array geometry. Before a real space image is constructed by a Fourier transform, the data is weighted to improve the quality of reconstruction. Two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sarod Yatawatta

Gravitational waves produced at kilohertz frequencies in the aftermath of a neutron star collision can shed light on the behavior of matter at extreme temperatures and densities that are inaccessible to laboratory experiments.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Dhruva Ganapathy , Lee McCuller , Jameson Graef Rollins , Evan D. Hall , Lisa Barsotti , Matthew Evans

The shot-noise limited peak sensitivity of cavity-enhanced interferometric measurement devices, such as gravitational-wave detectors, can be improved by increasing the cavity finesse, even when comparing fixed intra-cavity light powers. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Mikhail Korobko , Lisa Kleybolte , Stefan Ast , Haixing Miao , Yanbei Chen , Roman Schnabel

The rapid evolution of wearable technologies, such as AR glasses, demands compact, energy-efficient sensors capable of high-precision measurements in dynamic environments. Traditional Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Laser…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Alexander Zimmer , Johannes Meyer , Enkelejda Kasneci

Continuous-wave (CW) gravitational waves (GWs) call for computationally-intensive methods. Low signal-to-noise ratio signals need templated searches with long coherent integration times and thus fine parameter-space resolution. Longer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Grant David Meadors , Badri Krishnan , Maria Alessandra Papa , John T. Whelan , Yuanhao Zhang

Compared to passive interferometers, SU(1,1) interferometers exhibit superior phase sensitivity due to the incorporation of nonlinear elements that enhance their ability to detect phase shifts. However, the precision of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Qingqian Kang , Zekun Zhao , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

Radio interferometers targeting the 21cm brightness temperature fluctuations at high redshift are subject to systematic effects that operate over a range of different timescales. These can be isolated by designing appropriate Fourier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Hugh Garsden , Philip Bull , Mike Wilensky , Zuhra Abdurashidova , Tyrone Adams , James E. Aguirre , Paul Alexander , Zaki S. Ali , Rushelle Baartman , Yanga Balfour , Adam P. Beardsley , Lindsay M. Berkhout , Gianni Bernardi , Tashalee S. Billings , Judd D. Bowman , Richard F. Bradley , Jacob Burba , Steven Carey , Chris L. Carilli , Kai-Feng Chen , Carina Cheng , Samir Choudhuri , David R. DeBoer , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Matt Dexter , Joshua S. Dillon , Scott Dynes , Nico Eksteen , John Ely , Aaron Ewall-Wice , Nicolas Fagnoni , Randall Fritz , Steven R. Furlanetto , Kingsley Gale-Sides , Bharat Kumar Gehlot , Abhik Ghosh , Brian Glendenning , Adelie Gorce , Deepthi Gorthi , Bradley Greig , Jasper Grobbelaar , Ziyaad Halday , Bryna J. Hazelton , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , Jack Hickish , Tian Huang , Daniel C. Jacobs , Alec Josaitis , Austin Julius , MacCalvin Kariseb , Nicholas S. Kern , Joshua Kerrigan , Honggeun Kim , Piyanat Kittiwisit , Saul A. Kohn , Matthew Kolopanis , Adam Lanman , Paul La Plante , Adrian Liu , Anita Loots , Yin-Zhe Ma , David H. E. MacMahon , Lourence Malan , Cresshim Malgas , Keith Malgas , Bradley Marero , Zachary E. Martinot , Andrei Mesinger , Mathakane Molewa , Miguel F. Morales , Tshegofalang Mosiane , Steven G. Murray , Abraham R. Neben , Bojan Nikolic , Chuneeta Devi Nunhokee , Hans Nuwegeld , Aaron R. Parsons , Robert Pascua , Nipanjana Patra , Samantha Pieterse , Yuxiang Qin , Eleanor Rath , Nima Razavi-Ghods , Daniel Riley , James Robnett , Kathryn Rosie , Mario G. Santos , Peter Sims , Saurabh Singh , Dara Storer , Hilton Swarts , Jianrong Tan , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Pieter van Wyngaarden , Peter K. G. Williams , Zhilei Xu , Haoxuan Zheng