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Reduction of optimum light power with Heisenberg-limited photon-counting noise in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors

Constantin Brif

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9904053

Abstract

We study how the behavior of quantum noise, presenting the fundamental limit on the sensitivity of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, depends on properties of input states of light. We analyze the situation with specially prepared nonclassical input states which reduce the photon-counting noise to the Heisenberg limit. This results in a great reduction of the optimum light power needed to achieve the standard quantum limit, compared to the usual configuration.

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