Expanding the Reach of Quantum Enhanced Gravitational-Wave Detectors

TheAdvancedLIGOdetectorsarethemostprecisedisplacementsensorsevermade,operating at the cutting edge of quantum noise limited sensitivity. The introduction of non-classical squeezed states to reduce quantum shot noise during the third gravitational wave observing run O3 ushered in the era of quantum-e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ganapathy, Dhruva
Other Authors: Evans, Matthew
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156780