Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
2012-01-23
Physics
Optics
12 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
At present a 10\,m prototype interferometer facility is being set up at the AEI Hannover. One unique feature of the prototype will be the suspension platform interferometer (SPI). The purpose of the SPI is to monitor and stabilise the relative motion between three seismically isolated optical tables. The in-vacuum tables are suspended in an L-shaped configuration with an arm length of 11.65\,m. The design goal of the SPI is to stabilise longitudinal differential displacements to a level of 100\,pm/$\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$ between 10\,mHz and 100\,Hz and relative angular noise of 10\,nrad/$\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$ in the same frequency band. This paper covers the design aspects of the SPI, e.g. cross-coupling between the different degrees of freedom and fibre pointing noise are investigated. A simulation is presented which shows that with the chosen optical design of the SPI all degrees of table motion can be sensed in a fully decoupled way. Furthermore, a proof of principle test of the SPI sensing scheme is shown.
Dahl Katrin
Danzmann Karsten
Goßler Stefan
Heinzel Gerhard
Kranz Oliver
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