Quantum noise of a Michelson-Sagnac interferometer with a translucent mechanical oscillator
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Kazuhiro Yamamoto,1,* Daniel Friedrich,1 Tobias Westphal,1 Stefan Goßler,1 Karsten Danzmann,1 Kentaro Somiya,2 Stefan L. Danilishin,3 and Roman Schnabel1 1Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) and Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Callinstrasse 38, D-30167 Hannover, Germany 2Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 3Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow RU-119992, Russia (Received 16 December 2009; published 29 March 2010)
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