1. Development of a multistage laser frequency stabilization for an interferometric gravitational-wave detector
- Author
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Akitoshi Ueda, Takashi Nakamura, Nobuki Kawashima, Masaki Ando, Shigeo Nagano, Ken'ichi Nakagawa, Koji Arai, Kozo Ueda, Norihiko Kamikubota, Masatake Ohashi, Akito Araya, Daisuke Tatsumi, Eiichi Mizuno, Nobuyuki Kanda, Atsushi Sekiya, Shigenori Moriwaki, Shinji Miyoki, Kuniharu Tochikubo, Mitsuru Musha, Ryutaro Takahashi, Takahiro Tanaka, Ken-ichi Ueda, Norikatsu Mio, Sumihiro Matsumura, Kazuaki Kuroda, N. Ohishi, Shuichi Sato, Misao Sasaki, Shoken M. Miyama, M. A. Barton, Nobuhiro Tsuda, Toshitaka Yamazaki, Hideki Ishizuka, Koichi Waseda, Takayuki Tomaru, Hideki Asada, Ken-ichi Oohara, Masaru Shibata, Osamu Miyakawa, Gen'ichi Horikoshi, Yujiro Ogawa, Akiteru Takamori, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Yoshihide Kozai, Hideyuki Tagoshi, Shigemi Otsuka, Mitsuhiro Fukushima, Toshikazu Suzuki, Yasufumi Kojima, Keita Kawabe, Toshifumi Futamase, Ken-ichi Nakao, Shinsuke Taniguchi, Namio Matsuda, Seiji Kawamura, Takashi Uchiyama, Masa-Katsu Fujimoto, Kimio Tsubono, Yoshio Saito, and Souichi Telada
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Physics ,Coupling ,Interferometry ,Optics ,business.industry ,Detector ,Astronomical interferometer ,Topology (electrical circuits) ,Interferometric gravitational wave detector ,business ,Instrumentation ,Sensitivity (electronics) ,TAMA 300 - Abstract
Laser frequency stabilization is essential for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors to attain their target sensitivity. We have designed a multistage laser frequency stabilization system which has been applied in the development of the TAMA 300 gravitational-wave detector in Japan. The control topology consisting of two cascaded loops were employed to secure high feedback gain and reliable detector operation and thus allow the best frequency stability and uninterrupted long-term observation. We achieved simultaneously a frequency stability of 5 × 10^(−5) Hz/√HZ , and a common-mode rejection ratio (which reduces the coupling of frequency noise to spurious signals in the detector) of 37 dB. The developed system enabled us to operate TAMA 300 with sufficient sensitivity and stability that it had the potential to register gravitational-wave events. The system was confirmed to be suitable for a gravitational-wave detector from the observation run of TAMA 300.
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- 2003