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Implementation of a Reference Interferometer for Nanodetection
Published on: April 26, 2014
Demonstration of displacement- and frequency-noise-free laser interferometry using bidirectional Mach-Zehnder
Shuichi Sato1, Keiko Kokeyama, Robert L Ward
1TAMA project, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1, Mitaka, Osawa, Tokyo 181-8588 Japan. sato.shuichi@nao.ac.jp
Abstract:
We have demonstrated displacement- and frequency-noise-free laser interferometry (DFI) by partially implementing a recently proposed optical configuration using bidirectional Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs). This partial implementation, the minimum necessary to be called DFI, has confirmed the essential feature of DFI: the combination of two MZI signals can be carried out in a way that cancels displacement noise of the mirrors while maintaining gravitational-wave signals. The attained maximum displacement-noise suppression was 45 dB.
