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Laser frequency noise suppression by arm-locking in LISA: progress towards a bench-top demonstration

B S Sheard1, M B Gray1, D A Shaddock2 and D E McClelland1

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Overcoming laser frequency noise is a significant technical challenge for achieving the design sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational wave detector. Arm-locking is a recently proposed technique for suppressing frequency noise in LISA and can be used in addition to the established techniques of pre-stabilization and time-delay interferometry. Incorporation of arm-locking into LISA could provide many benefits, however experimental verification and testing is needed. We present the progress of an experimental test of arm-locking which uses 10 km of optical fibre to generate a large propagation time delay, analogous to the propagation delay in LISA.


PACS

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

95.55.Ym Gravitational radiation detectors; mass spectrometers; and other instrumentation and techniques

07.60.Ly Interferometers

MSC

78A60 Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (See also 81V80)

83C35 Gravitational waves

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 10 (21 May 2005)

Received 29 October 2004, in final form 8 February 2005

Published 21 April 2005



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