Results from the Stanford 10 m Sagnac interferometer

Details Results from the Stanford 10 m Sagnac interferometer Results from the Stanford 10 m Sagnac interferometer

Apr 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002cqgra..19.1585b&link_type=abstract

Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 19, Issue 7, pp. 1585-1589 (2002).

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The design of a 10 m all-reflective prototype Sagnac interferometer with suspended optics is described and the experimental results are presented. It uses a polarization scheme to allow detection of the dark fringe on the symmetric port of the beamsplitter for optimal interference contrast. The necessary low-frequency response of the interferometer requires delay lines in the arms. To deal with the noise introduced by scattered light in the delay lines, a laser frequency sweep frequency shifts the scattered light so that it does not produce noise near zero frequency. This results in a shot-noise-limited phase sensitivity of Δφ = 1.6 × 10-9 rad Hz-1/2 at frequencies as low as 200 Hz. Scaling this prototype to several kilometres with kilowatts of circulating power requires several technical improvements in high-power solid-state lasers, second harmonic generation and the fabrication of large mirrors, which are likely to be made in the next 10 years.

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