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A compact actively damped vibration isolation platform for optical experiments in ultra-high vacuum
Álvaro Fernández-Galiana, Lee McCuller, Jeff Kissel +13
We present a tabletop six-axis vibration isolation system, compatible with Ultra-High Vacuum (UHV), which is actively damped and provides 25 dB of isolation at 10 Hz and 65 dB at 1…
Distance measures in gravitational-wave astrophysics and cosmology
Hsin-Yu Chen, Daniel E. Holz, John Miller +3
We present quantities which characterize the sensitivity of gravitational-wave observatories to sources at cosmological distances. In particular, we introduce and generalize the ho…
Damping parametric instabilities in future gravitational wave detectors by means of electrostatic actuators
John Miller, Matthew Evans, Lisa Barsotti +6
It has been suggested that the next generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors may observe spontaneously excited parametric oscillatory instabilities. We present a…
Control and tuning of a suspended Fabry-Perot cavity using digitally-enhanced heterodyne interferometry
John Miller, Silvie Ngo, Adam J. Mullavey +3
We present the first demonstration of real-time closed-loop control and deterministic tuning of an independently suspended Fabry-Perot optical cavity using digitally-enhanced heter…
Decoherence and degradation of squeezed states in quantum filter cavities
Patrick Kwee, John Miller, Tomoki Isogai +2
Squeezed states of light have been successfully employed in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors to reduce quantum noise, thus becoming one of the most promising options fo…
First Demonstration of Electrostatic Damping of Parametric Instability at Advanced LIGO
Carl Blair, Slawek Gras, Richard Abbott +16
Interferometric gravitational wave detectors operate with high optical power in their arms in order to achieve high shot-noise limited strain sensitivity. A significant limitation…
Audio-band frequency-dependent squeezing
Eric Oelker, Tomoki Isogai, John Miller +4
Quantum vacuum fluctuations impose strict limits on precision displacement measurements, those of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors among them. Introducing squeezed stat…
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…
Length control of an optical resonator using second-order transverse modes
John Miller, Matthew Evans
We present the analysis of an unorthodox technique for locking a laser to a resonant optical cavity. Error signals are derived from the interference between the fundamental cavity…
Prospects for doubling the range of Advanced LIGO
John Miller, Lisa Barsotti, Salvatore Vitale +3
In the coming years, the gravitational wave community will be optimizing detector performance for a variety of astrophysical sources that make competing demands on the detector sen…
Loss in long-storage-time optical cavities
T. Isogai, J. Miller, P. Kwee +2
Long-storage-time Fabry-Perot cavities are a core component of many precision measurement experiments. Optical loss in such cavities is a critical parameter in determining their pe…
Arm-length stabilisation for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors using frequency-doubled auxiliary lasers
Adam J. Mullavey, Bram J. J. Slagmolen, John Miller +6
Residual motion of the arm cavity mirrors is expected to prove one of the principal impediments to systematic lock acquisition in advanced gravitational-wave interferometers. We pr…