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Title: Interferometers for Displacement-Noise-Free Gravitational-Wave Detection

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters

We propose a class of displacement- and laser-noise-free gravitational-wave-interferometer configurations, which does not sense nongeodesic mirror motion and laser noise, but provides a nonvanishing gravitational-wave signal. Our interferometers consist of four mirrors and two beam splitters, which form four Mach-Zehnder interferometers. By contrast to previous works, no composite mirrors with multiple reflective surfaces are required. Each mirror in our configuration is sensed redundantly, by at least two pairs of incident and reflected beams. Displacement- and laser-noise-free detection is achieved when output signals from these four interferometers are combined appropriately. Our 3-dimensional interferometer configuration has a low-frequency response proportional to f{sup 2}, which is better than the f{sup 3} achievable by previous 2-dimensional configurations.

OSTI ID:
20860943
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, Issue 15; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.151103; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English