Title :
Optical rigidity in signal-recycling configurations of laser gravitational-wave detectors with lossy mirrors
Author :
Ya Khalili, Farid ; Lazebny, Vladimir I. ; Vyatchanin, Sergey P.
Author_Institution :
Moscow State Univ.
Abstract :
We analyze the signal-recycled laser gravitational-wave interferometers with optical losses in arms for the Advanced LIGO topologies. We show that usage of the optical rigidity allows to obtain better than Standard Quantum Limit (SQL) sensitivity without increasing laser pumping. The gain in sensitivity is inversely proportional to the bandwidth inside which this gain is achieved. Varying the position of signal recycled mirror and optical power, which circulates in arms one can modify the sensitivity dependence on frequency from a single minimum to a double minimum dependence. We show that optical losses degrade sensitivity of measurements with usage of optical rigidity by relatively small value in contrast with other measurements beating SQL which degradation due to losses is considerable. It is also important that "narrow band" regimes provides the gain in signal to noise ratio even for signals with wide spectrum and the presence of losses also decreases this gain by relatively small numerical factor
Keywords :
astronomical instruments; gravitational wave detectors; laser beams; laser mirrors; laser noise; light interferometers; light interferometry; advanced LIGO topology; laser gravitational-wave detectors; laser pumping; lossy mirrors; optical power; optical rigidity; signal recycled mirror; signal-recycled laser gravitational-wave interferometer; signal-recycling configuration; standard quantum limit sensitivity; Arm; Degradation; Loss measurement; Mirrors; Optical interferometry; Optical losses; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Optical sensors; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Laser and Fiber-Optical Networks Modeling, 2005. Proceedings of LFNM 2005. 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yalta, Crimea
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9147-0
DOI :
10.1109/LFNM.2005.1553235