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arXiv:1111.7252 (physics)
[Submitted on 30 Nov 2011 (v1), last revised 29 Dec 2011 (this version, v2)]

Title:The 10m AEI prototype facility A brief overview

Authors:Tobias Westphal, Gerald Bergmann, Alessandro Bertolini, Michael Born, Yanbei Chen, Alan V Cumming, Liam Cunningham, Katrin Dahl, Christian Graef, Giles Hammond, Gerhard Heinzel, Stefan Hild, Sabina Huttner, Russel Jones, Fumiko Kawazoe, Sina Koehlenbeck, Gerrit Kuehn, Harald Lueck, Kasem Mossavi, Jan H Poeld, Kentaro Somiya, Marielle van Veggel, Alexander Wanner, Benno Willke, Ken A Strain, Stefan Gossler, Karsten Danzmann
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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 backaction (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.
Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:1111.7252 [physics.optics]
  (or arXiv:1111.7252v2 [physics.optics] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1111.7252
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-012-4878-z

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From: Tobias Westphal [view email]
[v1] Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:56:06 UTC (4,042 KB)
[v2] Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:58:44 UTC (4,046 KB)
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