Development of a multistage laser frequency stabilization for an interferometric gravitational-wave detector

Laser frequency stabilization is essential for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors to attain their target sensitivity. We have designed a multistage laser frequency stabilization system which has been applied in the development of the TAMA 300 gravitational-wave detector in Japan. The control topology consisting of two cascaded loops were employed to secure high feedback gain and reliable detector operation and thus allow the best frequency stability and uninterrupted long-term observation. We achieved simultaneously a frequency stability of 5 × 10^(−5) Hz/√HZ , and a common-mode rejection ratio (which reduces the coupling of frequency noise to spurious signals in the detector) of 37 dB. The developed system enabled us to operate TAMA 300 with sufficient sensitivity and stability that it had the potential to register gravitational-wave events. The system was confirmed to be suitable for a gravitational-wave detector from the observation run of TAMA 300.

Norihiko Kamikubota | Takayuki Tomaru | Takashi Uchiyama | Shinji Miyoki | Nobuki Kawashima | Ken-ichi Ueda | Yoshio Saito | Naoko Ohishi | Gen'ichi Horikoshi | Seiji Kawamura | Namio Matsuda | Akitoshi Ueda | Masaki Ando | Hideki Asada | Ken'ichi Nakagawa | Shuichi Sato | Shigeo Nagano | Masatake Ohashi | Osamu Miyakawa | Nobuhiro Tsuda | Masaru Shibata | Takahiro Tanaka | Mitsuru Musha | Ryutaro Takahashi | Daisuke Tatsumi | Keita Kawabe | Nobuyuki Kanda | Sumihiro Matsumura | Toshitaka Yamazaki | Ken-ichi Oohara | Souichi Telada | Kazuhiro Yamamoto | Akiteru Takamori | Yujiro Ogawa | Hideki Ishizuka | Akito Araya | Yasufumi Kojima | Hideyuki Tagoshi | Yoshihide Kozai | Kimio Tsubono | Norikatsu Mio | Shoken M. Miyama | Kazuaki Kuroda | K. Arai | K. Kawabe | K. Oohara | Takahiro Tanaka | M. Ando | A. Araya | H. Asada | M. Barton | M. Fujimoto | N. Kanda | S. Kawamura | Y. Kojima | K. Kuroda | O. Miyakawa | S. Miyoki | S. Nagano | K. Nakao | M. Ohashi | N. Ohishi | M. Shibata | H. Tagoshi | A. Takamori | D. Tatsumi | S. Telada | T. Tomaru | K. Tsubono | T. Uchiyama | Yoshio Saito | Y. Ogawa | G. Horikoshi | M. Fukushima | S. Miyama | R. Takahashi | Kazuhiro Yamamoto | Shuichi Sato | Takashi Nakamura | Toshikazu Suzuki | T. Futamase | K. Ueda | N. Mio | N. Kawashima | K. Nakagawa | Takashi Nakamura | Toshikazu Suzuki | Misao Sasaki | M. Musha | Koji Arai | Koichi Waseda | Shigenori Moriwaki | Masa-Katsu Fujimoto | Mitsuhiro Fukushima | Toshifumi Futamase | Mark A. Barton | M. Sasaki | S. Moriwaki | Shigemi Otsuka | Atsushi Sekiya | Shinsuke Taniguchi | Kuniharu Tochikubo | Kozo Ueda | Eiichi Mizuno | Ken-ichi Nakao | A. Ueda | K. Ueda | H. Ishizuka | T. Yamazaki | K. Waseda | K. Tochikubo | S. Taniguchi | Y. Kozai | Sumihiro Matsumura | S. Otsuka | A. Sekiya | N. Kamikubota | E. Mizuno | N. Tsuda | N. Matsuda | K. Ueda | S. Sato | K. Kawabe | Namio Matsuda

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