EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF DUAL RECYCLING FOR INTERFEROMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTORS

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作者
STRAIN, KA
MEERS, BJ
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[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.1391
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We describe the first experimental demonstration of dual recycling, an optical system which should improve considerably the performance of proposed laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. The results were in excellent agreement with predictions: An enhancement of the signal-to-noise ratio by a factor of 7 was observed.
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