First Demonstration of Electrostatic Damping of Parametric Instability at Advanced LIGO

Interferometric gravitational wave detectors operate with high optical power in their arms in order to achieve high shot-noise limited strain sensitivity. A significant limitation to increasing the optical power is the phenomenon of three-mode parametric instabilities, in which the laser field in th...

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Main Authors: Blair, Carl, Abbott, Richard, Aston, Stuart, Betzwieser, Joseph, Blair, David, DeRosa, Ryan, Frolov, Valera, Grote, Hartmut, Hardwick, Terra, Liu, Jian, Lormand, Marc, Mullavey, Adam, O’Reilly, Brian, Zhao, Chunnong, Abbott, B. P., Abbott, T. D., Adams, C., Adhikari, R. X., Anderson, S. B., Ananyeva, A., Appert, S., Arai, K., Ballmer, S. W., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Bartlett, J., Bartos, I., Batch, J. C., Bell, A. S., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Biwer, C., Bork, R., Brooks, A. F., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Countryman, S. T., Cowart, M. J., Coyne, D. C., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Danzmann, K., Da Silva Costa, C. F., Daw, E. J., DeBra, D., DeSalvo, R., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Driggers, J. C., Dwyer, S. E., Effler, A., Etzel, T., Evans, T. M., Factourovich, M., Fair, H., Fernández Galiana, A., Fisher, R. P., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Giaime, J. A., Giardina, K. D., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gray, C., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hall, E. D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanson, J., Harry, G. M., Heintze, M. C., Heptonstall, A. W., Hough, J., Izumi, K., Jones, R., Kandhasamy, S., Karki, S., Kasprzack, M., Kaufer, S., Kawabe, K., Kijbunchoo, N., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kissel, J. S., Korth, W. Z., Kuehn, G., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lockerbie, N. A., Lundgren, A. P., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A. S., Maros, E., Martin, I. W., Martynov, D. V., Mason, K., Massinger, T. J., Matichard, F., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McCormick, S., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., Mendell, G., Merilh, E. L., Meyers, P. M., Mittleman, R., Moreno, G., Mueller, G., Munch, J., Nuttall, L. K., Oberling, J., Oppermann, P., Oram, Richard J., Ottaway, D. J., Overmier, H., Palamos, J. R., Paris, H. R., Parker, W., Pele, A., Penn, S., Phelps, M., Pierro, V., Pinto, I., Principe, M., Prokhorov, L. G., Puncken, O., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E. A., Raab, F. J., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Robertson, N. A., Rollins, J. G., Roma, V. J., Romie, J. H., Rowan, S., Ryan, K., Sadecki, T., Sanchez, E. J., Sandberg, V., Savage, R. L., Schofield, R. M. S., Sellers, D., Shaddock, D. A., Shaffer, T. J., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sigg, D., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Smith, B., Smith, J. R., Sorazu, B., Staley, A., Strain, K. A., Tanner, D. B., Taylor, R., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thrane, E., Torrie, C. I., Traylor, G., Vajente, G., Valdes, G., van Veggel, A. A., Vecchio, A., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Vo, T., Vorvick, C., Walker, M., Ward, R. L., Warner, J., Weaver, B., Weiss, R., Weßels, P., Willke, B., Wipf, C. C., Worden, J., Wu, G., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun, Zhang, L., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J., Gras, Slawomir, Evans, Matthew J, Fritschel, Peter K, Miller, John
Other Authors: LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108741
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