A quantum-enhanced prototype gravitational-wave detector

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 472-476

  Goda, K ^a   Miyakawa, O ^b   Mikhailov, E E ^c   Saraf, S ^d   Adhikari, R ^b   McKenzie, K ^e   Ward, R ^b   Vass, S ^b   Weinstein, A J ^b   Mavalvala, N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^d ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; QUANTUM OPTICS; SHOT NOISE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ASTRONOMICAL SOURCES; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; LASER INTERFEROMETRIC; MEASURING DISTANCES; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; SQUEEZING ENHANCEMENT; ZERO-POINT FLUCTUATIONS;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 44849130627     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys920     Document Type: Article

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