Simulations of laser locking to a LISA arm

Journal Article · Mon Nov 15 04:00:00 EST 2004 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.102002· OSTI ID:20697967

Sylvestre, Julien ^[1]

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1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109 (United States)

We present detailed numerical simulations of a laser phase stabilization scheme for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), where both lasers emitting along one arm are locked to each other. Including the standard secondary noises and spacecraft motions that approximately mimic LISA's orbit (excluding the rotation of the constellation), we verify that very stable laser phases can be obtained and that time delay interferometry can be used to remove the laser phase noise from measurements of gravitational wave strains. Most importantly, we show that this locking scheme can provide significant simplifications over LISA's baseline design in the implementation of time delay interferometry.

• OSTI ID: 20697967
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 70; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANTENNAS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
IMPLEMENTATION
INTERFEROMETERS
INTERFEROMETRY
LASERS
MODE LOCKING
NOISE
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
TIME DELAY