Cosmos and Measurement. Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Antenna in Space with a 500km Arm Length.

Diagonalization of the length sensing matrix of a dual recycled laser interferometer gravitational wave antenna

Next generation gravitational wave (gw) antennas employ RSE (Resonant Sideband Extraction) interferometers with Fabry-Perot cavities in the arms as an optical configuration. In order to realize stable, robust control of the detector system, it is a key issue to extract appropriate control signals for longitudinal degrees of freedom of the complex coupled-cavity system. In this paper, a novel le...

Arm Locking for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission is a planned gravitational wave detector consisting of three spacecraft in heliocentric orbit. Laser interferometry is used to measure distance fluctuations between test masses aboard each spacecraft to the picometer level over a 5 million kilometer separation. Laser frequency fluctuations must be suppressed in order to meet the measurement require...

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory

We report on a search for gravitational wave bursts using data from the first science run of the LIGO detectors. We focus on bursts with durations ranging from 4 msec to 100 msec, and with significant power in the LIGO sensitivity band of 150 to 3000 Hz. We bound the rate for such detected bursts at less than 1.6 events per day at 90% confidence level. This result is interpreted in terms of the...

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory

We propose a method for in situ measurement of the length of kilometer size Fabry-Perot cavities in laser gravitational wave detectors. The method is based on the vernier, which occurs naturally when the laser incident on the cavity has a sideband. By changing the length of the cavity over several wavelengths we obtain a set of carrier resonances alternating with sideband resonances. From the m...