3 papers
physics.optics2025
Finding the Maximal Contrast of Two Elliptical Gaussian Mode Beams with Aligned Ellipticities
Mark Zhu, Sina M. Koehlenbeck, Edgard Bonilla +1
Interferometric contrast is a key factor limiting the sensitivity of precision optical measurements, including the laser interferometers used in gravitational-wave detection. While…
gr-qc2025
Microseismic Noise Mitigation with Machine Learning for Advanced LIGO
Christina Reissel, Devin Lai, Shivanshu Dwivedi +9
The unprecedented sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, which enables the detection of distant astrophysical sources, also renders the detectors h…
gr-qc2024
Squeezing the quantum noise of a gravitational-wave detector below the standard quantum limit
Wenxuan Jia, Victoria Xu, Kevin Kuns +168
Precision measurements of space and time, like those made by the detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), are often confronted with fundamental…