Reducing controls noise in gravitational wave detectors with interferometric local damping of suspended optics
arXiv:2205.01434 · doi:10.1063/5.0144865
Abstract
Control noise is a limiting factor in the low-frequency performance of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors. In this paper we model the effects of using new sensors called HoQIs to control the suspension resonances. We show if we were to use HoQIs, instead of the standard shadow sensors, we can suppress resonance peaks up to tenfold more while simultaneously reducing the noise injected by the damping system. Through a cascade of effects this will reduce the resonant cross-coupling, allow for improved stability for feed-forward control, and result in improved sensitivity of the detector in the 10-20 Hz band. This analysis shows that local sensors such as HoQIs should be used in current and future detectors to improve low-frequency performance.
arXiv commentRSI Accepted manuscript, 9 pages, 8 figures
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