《Squeezed-input》.pdf

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 68, 042001 2003 Squeezed-input, optical-spring, signal-recycled gravitational-wave detectors Jan Harms,1 Yanbei Chen,2 Simon Chelkowski,1 Alexander Franzen,1 Henning Vahlbruch,1 Karsten Danzmann,1 and Roman Schnabel1 1 ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ Institut fur Atom- und Molekulphysik, Universitat Hannover and Max-Planck-Institut fur Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany 2Theoretical Astrophysics 130-33, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Received 26 March 2003; published 21 August 2003 We theoretically analyze the quantum noise of signal-recycled laser interferometric gravitational-wave de- tectors with additional input and output optics, namely, frequency-dependent squeezing of the vacuum state of light entering the dark port and frequency-dependent homodyne detection. We combine the work of Buonanno and Chen on the quantum noise of signal-recycled interferometers with ordinary input and output optics, and the work of Kimble et al. on frequency-dependent input and output optics with conventional interferometers. Analytical formulas for the optimal input and output frequency dependencies are obtained. It is shown that injecting squeezed light with the optimal frequency-dependent squeezing angle into the dark port yields an improvement in the noise spectral density by a factor of e 2r in power over the entire squeezing bandwidth,