Squeezed Vacuum Injection in Advanced LIGO: Enhancing Gravitational-Wave Detection Using Quantum States of Light
This Thesis describes the first use of squeezed vacuum states in the direct measurement of gravitational waves with the Advanced LIGO detectors. During the Observation Run O3, from April 1st, 2019 to March 27, 2020, squeezing improved the sensitivity of the LIGO interferometers to gravitational-wave...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150704 |