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Interferometers for Displacement-Noise-Free Gravitational-Wave Detection

Yanbei Chen, Archana Pai, Kentaro Somiya, Seiji Kawamura, Shuichi Sato, Keiko Kokeyama, Robert L. Ward

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0603054

Abstract

We propose a class of displacement- and laser-noise free gravitational-wave-interferometer configurations, which does not sense non-geodesic mirror motions and laser noises, but provides non-vanishing gravitational-wave signal. Our interferometer consists of 4 mirrors and 2 beamsplitters, which form 4 Mach-Zehnder interferometers. By contrast to previous works, no composite mirrors are required. Each mirror in our configuration is sensed redundantly, by at least two pairs of incident and reflected beams. Displacement- and laser-noise free detection is achieved when output signals from these 4 interferometers are combined appropriately. Our 3-dimensional interferometer configuration has a low-frequency response proportional to f2, which is better than the f3 achievable by previous 2-dimensional configurations.

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