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Optomechanical cooling and inertial sensing at low frequencies
Yanqi Zhang, Adam Hines, Dalziel Wilson +1
An inertial sensor design is proposed in this paper to achieve high sensitivity and large dynamic range in the sub-Hz frequency regime. High acceleration sensitivity is obtained by…
A characterization method for low-frequency environmental noise in LIGO
Guillermo Valdes, Adam Hines, Andrea Nelson +2
We present a method to characterize the noise in ground-based gravitational-wave observatories such as the Laser Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). This method uses linear regr…
Investigation and mitigation of noise contributions in a compact heterodyne interferometer
Yanqi Zhang, Adam Hines, Guillermo Valdes +1
We present a noise estimation and subtraction algorithm capable of increasing the sensitivity of heterodyne laser interferometers by one order of magnitude. The heterodyne interfer…
Quasi-monolithic heterodyne laser interferometer for inertial sensing
Yanqi Zhang, Felipe Guzman
We present a compact heterodyne laser interferometer developed for high-sensitivity displacement sensing applications. This interferometer consists of customized prisms and wavepla…
Fiber-based two-wavelength heterodyne laser interferometer
Yanqi Zhang, Felipe Guzman
Displacement measuring interferometry is a crucial component in metrology applications. In this paper, we propose a fiber-based two-wavelength heterodyne interferometer as a compac…
Optomechanical accelerometers for geodesy
Adam Hines, Andrea Nelson, Yanqi Zhang +4
We present a novel optomechanical inertial sensor for low frequency applications and corresponding acceleration measurements. This sensor has a resonant frequency of 4.7Hz, a mecha…
Optomechanical lasers for inertial sensing
Hayden Wisniewski, Logan Richardson, Adam Hines +2
We have developed an inertially sensitive optomechanical laser by combining a Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser with a monolithic fused silica resonator. By placing t…
Quantum hybrid optomechanical inertial sensing
Logan Richardson, Adam Hines, Andrew Schaffer +2
We discuss the design of quantum hybrid inertial sensor that combines an optomechanical inertial sensor with the retro-reflector of a cold atom interferometer. This sensor fusion a…
Optomechanical Inertial Sensors
Adam Hines, Logan Richardson, Hayden Wisniewski +1
We present a performance analysis of compact monolithic optomechanical inertial sensors that describes their key fundamental limits and overall acceleration noise floor. Performanc…
A compact high-precision periodic-error-free heterodyne interferometer
Ki-Nam Joo, Erin Clark, Yanqi Zhang +2
We present the design, bench-top setup, and experimental results of a compact heterodyne interferometer that achieves picometer-level displacement sensitivities in air over frequen…
Optomechanical resonator-enhanced atom interferometry
L. L. Richardson, D. Nath, A. Rajagopalan +16
Matter-wave interferometry and spectroscopy of optomechanical resonators offer complementary advantages. Interferometry with cold atoms is employed for accurate and long-term stabl…
Compact fully monolithic optomechanical accelerometer
Felipe Guzman, Lee M. Kumanchik, Ruven Spannagel +1
We present a highly compact and fully monolithic optomechanical accelerometer fabricated of a single wafer of fused-silica with a total volume of less than 2cc and a total mass of…