Arm-length stabilisation for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors using frequency-doubled auxiliary lasers
Optics Express2011Vol. 20(1), pp. 81–81
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A. Mullavey, B. J. J. Slagmolen, John Miller, M. Evans, Peter Fritschel, D. Sigg, S. J. Waldman, D. A. Shaddock, D. E. McClelland
Abstract
Residual motion of the arm cavity mirrors is expected to prove one of the principal impediments to systematic lock acquisition in advanced gravitational-wave interferometers. We present a technique which overcomes this problem by employing auxiliary lasers at twice the fundamental measurement frequency to pre-stabilise the arm cavities' lengths. Applying this approach, we reduce the apparent length noise of a 1.3 m long, independently suspended Fabry-Perot cavity to 30 pm rms and successfully transfer longitudinal control of the system from the auxiliary laser to the measurement laser.
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