Study of acceleration measurement in gravitational wave detection

Abstract Position-meter and speed-meter interferometers have been analysed for detecting gravitational waves. Speed-meter is proposed to reduce the radiation pressure noise, which dominant at low frequency. We introduce concept of acceleration measurement in comparison with position speed measurement. In this paper, we describe a general derive its standard quantum limit. provide an example acceleration-meter interferometer configuration. show that shot noise dominates frequency following dependence $1/\Omega^2$, while constant. The has even stronger suppression than speed-meter.