Design of the 10 m AEI prototype facility for interferometry studies

T. Westphal; G. Bergmann; A. Bertolini; M. Born; Y. Chen; A.V. Cumming; L. Cunningham; K. Dahl; C. Graf; G. Hammond; G. Heinzel; S. Hild; S. Huttner; R. Jones; F. Kawazoe; S. Kohlenbeck; G. Kuhn; H. Luck; K. Mossavi; J.H. Pold; K. Somiya; A.M. van Veggel; A. Wanner; B. Willke; K.A. Strain; S. Gossler; K. Danzmann

doi:10.1007/s00340-012-4878-z

Design of the 10 m AEI prototype facility for interferometry studies

T. Westphal^*, G. Bergmann, A. Bertolini, M. Born, Y. Chen, A.V. Cumming, L. Cunningham, K. Dahl, C. Graf, G. Hammond, G. Heinzel, S. Hild, S. Huttner, R. Jones, F. Kawazoe, S. Kohlenbeck, G. Kuhn, H. Luck, K. Mossavi, J.H. PoldK. Somiya, A.M. van Veggel, A. Wanner, B. Willke, K.A. Strain, S. Gossler, K. Danzmann

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The AEI 10 m prototype interferometer facility is currently being constructed at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, Germany. It aims to perform experiments for future gravitational wave detectors using advanced techniques. Seismically isolated benches are planned to be interferometrically interconnected and stabilized, forming a low-noise testbed inside a 100 m(3) ultra-high vacuum system. A well-stabilized high-power laser will perform differential position readout of 100 g test masses in a 10 m suspended arm-cavity enhanced Michelson interferometer at the crossover of measurement (shot) noise and back-action (quantum radiation pressure) noise, the so-called Standard Quantum Limit (SQL). Such a sensitivity enables experiments in the highly topical field of macroscopic quantum mechanics. In this article we introduce the experimental facility and describe the methods employed; technical details of subsystems will be covered in future papers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	551-557
Number of pages	7
Journal	Applied Physics B: Photophysics and Laser Chemistry
Volume	106
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-012-4878-z
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Westphal, T., Bergmann, G., Bertolini, A., Born, M., Chen, Y., Cumming, A. V., Cunningham, L., Dahl, K., Graf, C., Hammond, G., Heinzel, G., Hild, S., Huttner, S., Jones, R., Kawazoe, F., Kohlenbeck, S., Kuhn, G., Luck, H., Mossavi, K., ... Danzmann, K. (2012). Design of the 10 m AEI prototype facility for interferometry studies. Applied Physics B: Photophysics and Laser Chemistry, 106(3), 551-557. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-012-4878-z

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