Design of the 10 m AEI prototype facility for interferometry studies
| Autor: | Stefan Goßler, G. D. Hammond, Yi Chen, F. Kawazoe, A. Cumming, M. Born, S. H. Huttner, L. Cunningham, C. Gräf, Kenneth A. Strain, Harald Lück, A. van Veggel, J. Pöld, T. Westphal, Gerrit Kühn, Kentaro Somiya, Stefan Hild, Kasem Mossavi, Roger Jones, Alexander Wanner, Katrin Dahl, Karsten Danzmann, Alessandro Bertolini, Gerhard Heinzel, Benno Willke, G. Bergmann, S M Köhlenbeck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
Quantum optics Gravitational-wave observatory Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) Gravitational wave business.industry Quantum limit Detector General Engineering General Physics and Astronomy Michelson interferometer Noise (electronics) law.invention Interferometry law Aerospace engineering business |
| Zdroj: | Applied Physics B. 106:551-557 |
| ISSN: | 1432-0649 0946-2171 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00340-012-4878-z |
| Popis: | The AEI 10 m prototype interferometer facility is currently being constructed at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, Germany. It aims to perform experiments for future gravitational wave detectors using advanced techniques. Seismically isolated benches are planned to be interferometrically interconnected and stabilized, forming a low-noise testbed inside a 100 m3 ultra-high vacuum system. A well-stabilized high-power laser will perform differential position readout of 100 g test masses in a 10 m suspended arm-cavity enhanced Michelson interferometer at the crossover of measurement (shot) noise and back-action (quantum radiation pressure) noise, the so-called Standard Quantum Limit (SQL). Such a sensitivity enables experiments in the highly topical field of macroscopic quantum mechanics. In this article we introduce the experimental facility and describe the methods employed; technical details of subsystems will be covered in future papers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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