Shot-noise-limited control-loop noise in an interferometer with multiple degrees of freedom

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 4335-4342

  Somiya, Kentaro ^a,b   Miyakawa, Osamu ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER MIRRORS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CONTROL SCHEMES; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; MEASUREMENT DEVICE; MULTIPLE DEGREES OF FREEDOM; OPERATION POINT; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; TARGET OBJECT;

SHOT NOISE;

EID: 77955885721     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.004335     Document Type: Article

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