Squeezed quadrature fluctuations in a gravitational wave detector using squeezed light

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 19047-19060

  Dwyer, S ^a   Barsotti, L ^a   Chua, S S Y ^b   Evans, M ^a   Factourovich, M ^c   Gustafson, D ^d   Isogai, T ^a   Kawabe, K ^e   Khalaidovski, A ^f   Lam, P K ^b   Landry, M ^e   Mavalvala, N ^a   McClelland, D E ^b   Meadors, G D ^d   Mow Lowry, C M ^b   Schnabel, R ^f   Schofield, R M S ^g   Smith Lefebvre, N ^a   Stefszky, M ^b   Vorvick, C ^e   Sigg, D ^e   more..

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e LIGO HANFORD OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; QUANTUM OPTICS; SHOT NOISE;

ADVANCED DETECTOR; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL REALIZATION; SQUEEZED VACUUM STATE; SQUEEZING ENHANCEMENT; THIRD GENERATION;

DETECTORS;

EID: 84881498313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.019047     Document Type: Article

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