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Observation of Parametric Instability in Advanced LIGO
Matthew Evans, Slawek Gras, Peter Fritschel +41
Parametric instabilities have long been studied as a potentially limiting effect in high-power interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Until now, however, these instabilities…
Angular control of optical cavities in a radiation pressure dominated regime: the Enhanced LIGO case
Katherine L Dooley, Lisa Barsotti, Rana X Adhikari +6
We describe the angular sensing and control of the 4 km detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). The culmination of first generation LIGO detect…
Residual Amplitude Modulation in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
Keiko Kokeyama, Kiwamu Izumi, William Z. Korth +3
The effects of residual amplitude modulation (RAM) in laser interferometers using heterodyne sensing can be substantial and difficult to mitigate. In this work, we analyze the effe…
Impact of backscattered light in a squeezing-enhanced interferometric gravitational-wave detector
S. S. Y. Chua, S. Dwyer, L. Barsotti +20
Squeezed states of light have been recently used to improve the sensitivity of laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors beyond the quantum limit. To completely establish…
Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger and Ringdown in LIGO-Virgo Data from 2009-2010
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +800
We report a search for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes (BBH) with total mass between 25 and 100 solar masses, in data taken at the…
Optimal Alignment Sensing of a Readout Mode Cleaner Cavity
Nicolas Smith-Lefebvre, Stefan Ballmer, Matt Evans +4
Critically coupled resonant optical cavities are often used as mode cleaners in optical systems to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a signal that is encoded as an amplitu…
DC readout experiment in Enhanced LIGO
Tobin T. Fricke, Nicolas D. Smith-Lefebvre, Richard Abbott +9
The two 4 km long gravitational wave detectors operated by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) were modified in 2008 to read out the gravitational wave c…