APPROACHING THE QUANTUM LIMIT WITH OPTICALLY INSTRUMENTED MULTIMODE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE BAR DETECTORS

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RICHARD, JP
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1992年 / 46卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.46.2309
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P1 [天文学];
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A laser-illuminated Fabry-Perot cavity with a finesse of 83000 and power dissipation of a few mu-W is tested at room temperature. The sensitivity to changes in the length of the cavity is 5.6 x 10(-17) m/square-root-Hz. The sensitivity of multimode gravitational -wave bar detectors operated between 0.03 and 4.2 K and instrumented with a Fabry-Perot transducer of similar characteristics is calculated. The sensitivity projected for a three-mode 2400-kg Al 5056 antenna operating at 800 Hz and cooled to 0.03 K is delta-h= 6.8 x 10(-21) and the noise temperature of the system is a factor of 16 above the standard quantum limit. Such a sensitivity would permit observations of astrophysical significance.
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