Optimal light beams and mirror shapes for future LIGO interferometers (2008)
Bondarescu, Mihai, Kogan, Oleg, Chen, Yanbei
We report the results of a recent search for the lowest value of thermal noise that can be achieved in LIGO by changing the shape of mirrors, while fixing the mirror radius and maintaining a low...
Route to ponderomotive entanglement of light via optically trapped mirrors (2008)
Wipf, Christopher, Corbitt, Thomas, Chen, Yanbei, Mavalvala, Nergis
The radiation pressure of two laser beams detuned from resonance in an optical cavity can create a stable optical trap for a mechanical oscillation mode of a movable cavity mirror. Here it is shown...
Double optical spring enhancement for gravitational-wave detectors (2008)
Rehbein, Henning, Müller-Ebhardt, Helge, Somiya, Kentaro, Danilishin, Stefan L., Schnabel, Roman, Danzmann, Karsten, ...
Currently planned second-generation gravitational-wave laser interferometers such as Advanced LIGO exploit the extensively investigated signal-recycling technique. Candidate Advanced LIGO...
Creation of a quantum oscillator by classical control (2008)
Danilishin, Stefan, Müller-Ebhardt, Helge, Rehbein, Henning, Somiya, Kentaro, Schnabel, Roman, Danzmann, Karsten, ...
As a pure quantum state is being approached via linear feedback, and the occupation number approaches and eventually goes below unity, optimal control becomes crucial. We obtain theoretically the...
Optimal Light Beams and Mirror Shapes for Future LIGO Interferometers (2008)
Bondarescu, Mihai, Kogan, Oleg, Chen, Yanbei
We report the results of a recent search for the lowest value of thermal noise that can be achieved in LIGO by changing the shape of mirrors, while fixing the mirror radius and maintaining a low...
Double optical spring enhancement for gravitational wave detectors (2008)
Rehbein, Henning, Mueller-Ebhardt, Helge, Somiya, Kentaro, Danilishin, Stefan L., Schnabel, Roman, Danzmann, Karsten, ...
Currently planned second-generation gravitational-wave laser interferometers such as Advanced LIGO exploit the extensively investigated signal-recycling (SR) technique. Candidate Advanced LIGO...
A route to observing ponderomotive entanglement with optically trapped mirrors (2008)
Wipf, Christopher, Corbitt, Thomas, Chen, Yanbei, Mavalvala, Nergis
The radiation pressure of two detuned laser beams can create a stable trap for a suspended cavity mirror; here it is shown that such a configuration entangles the output light fields via interaction...
Appourchaux, Thierry, Burston, Raymond, Chen, Yanbei, Cruise, Michael, Dittus, Hansjoerg, Foulon, Bernard, ...
ASTROD I is a planned interplanetary space mission with multiple goals. The primary aims are: to test General Relativity with an improvement in sensitivity of over 3 orders of magnitude, improving...
Müller-Ebhardt, Helge, Rehbein, Henning, Schnabel, Roman, Danzmann, Karsten, Chen, Yanbei
We show that the generation of entanglement of two heavily macroscopic mirrors with masses of up to several kilograms are feasible with state of the art techniques of high-precision laser...
Double optical spring enhancement for gravitational wave detectors (2008)
Rehbein, Henning, Müller-Ebhardt, Helge, Somiya, Kentaro, Danilishin, Stefan L., Schnabel, Roman, Danzmann, Karsten, ...
Currently planned second-generation gravitational-wave laser interferometers such as Advanced LIGO exploit the extensively investigated signal-recycling technique. Candidate Advanced LIGO...
Ajith, P., Babak, Stanislav, Chen, Yanbei, Hewitson, Martin, Krishnan, Badri, Sintes, A. M., ...
Gravitational waveforms from the inspiral and ring-down stages of the binary black-hole coalescences can be modeled accurately by approximation/perturbation techniques in general relativity. Recent...
Sato, S., Kokeyama, K., Kawamura, S., Ward, R. L., Nishizawa, A., Chen, Yanbei, ...
We have demonstrated displacement- and frequency-noise-free laser interferometry (DFI) by partially implementing a recently proposed optical configuration using bi-directional Mach–Zehnder...
The Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, G., ...
A search for periodic gravitational waves, from sources such as isolated rapidly-spinning neutron stars, was carried out using 510 hours of data from the fourth LIGO science run (S4). The search was...
Wen, Linqing, Fan, Xilong, Chen, Yanbei
We report for the first time a method-independent geometrical expression for the angular resolution of an arbitrary network of interferometric gravitational wave (GW) detectors when the arrival-time...
Local readout enhancement for detuned signal-recycling interferometers (2007)
Rehbein, Henning, Müller-Ebhardt, Helge, Somiya, Kentaro, Li, Chao, Schnabel, Roman, Danzmann, Karsten, ...
High power detuned signal-recycling interferometers currently planned for second-generation interferometric gravitational-wave detectors (for example Advanced LIGO) are characterized by two...
Local readout enhancement for detuned signal-recycling interferometers (2007)
Rehbein, Henning, Mueller-Ebhardt, Helge, Somiya, Kentaro, Li, Chao, Schnabel, Roman, Danzmann, Karsten, ...
Motivated by the optical-bar scheme of Braginsky, Gorodetsky and Khalili, we propose to add to a high power detuned signal-recycling interferometer a local readout scheme which measures the motion of...
Mueller-Ebhardt, Helge, Rehbein, Henning, Schnabel, Roman, Danzmann, Karsten, Chen, Yanbei
We show that the generation of entanglement of two heavily macroscopic mirrors with masses of up to several kilograms are feasible with state of the art techniques of high-precision laser...
Sato, Shuichi, Kokeyama, Keiko, Ward, Robert L., Kawamura, Seiji, Chen, Yanbei, Pai, Archana, ...
We have demonstrated displacement- and frequency-noise-free laser interferometry (DFI) by partially implementing a recently proposed optical configuration using bidirectional Mach-Zehnder...
An All-Optical Trap for a Gram-Scale Mirror (2007)
Corbitt, Thomas, Chen, Yanbei, Innerhofer, Edith, Müller-Ebhardt, Helge, Ottaway, David, Rehbein, Henning, ...
We report on a stable optical trap suitable for a macroscopic mirror, wherein the dynamics of the mirror are fully dominated by radiation pressure. The technique employs two frequency-offset laser...
Transition from inspiral to plunge in precessing binaries of spinning black holes (2007)
Buonanno, Alessandra, Chen, Yanbei, Damour, Thibault
We investigate the nonadiabatic dynamics of spinning black-hole binaries by using an analytical Hamiltonian completed with a radiation-reaction force, containing spin couplings, which matches the...
Utility investigation of artificial time delay in displacement-noise-free interferometers (2007)
Somiya, Kentaro, Chen, Yanbei, Goda, Keisuke, Mikhailov, Eugeniy E.
Laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors are usually limited by displacement noise in their lower frequency band. Recently, theoretical proposals have been put forward to construct schemes...
Local readout enhancement for detuned signal-recycling interferometers (2007)
Müller-Ebhardt, Helge, Rehbein, Henning, Schnabel, Roman, Danzmann, Karsten, Chen, Yanbei, Li, Chao, ...
Motivated by the optical-bar scheme of Braginsky, Gorodetsky and Khalili, we propose to add to a high power detuned signal-recycling interferometer a local readout scheme which measures the motion of...
Isolation of gravitational waves from displacement noise and utility of a time-delay device (2007)
Somiya, Kentaro, Goda, Keisuke, Chen, Yanbei, Mikhailov, Eugeniy E.
nterferometers with kilometer-scale arms have been built for gravitational-wave detections on the ground; ones with much longer arms are being planned for space-based detection. One fundamental...
Interferometers for Displacement-Noise-Free Gravitational-Wave Detection (2007)
Chen, Yanbei, Pai, Archana, Somiya, Kentaro, Kawamura, Seiji, Sato, Shuichi, Kokeyama, Keiko, ...
We propose a class of displacement- and laser-noise free gravitational-wave-interferometer configurations, which does not sense non-geodesic mirror motions and laser noises, but provides...
Extracting Information about EMRIs using Time-Frequency Methods (2006)
Wen, Linqing, Chen, Yanbei, Gair, Jonathan
The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes are some of the most exciting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent...
Isolation of gravitational waves from displacement noise and utility of a time-delay device (2006)
Somiya, Kentaro, Goda, Keisuke, Chen, Yanbei, Mikhailov, Eugeniy E.
Interferometers with kilometer-scale arms have been built for gravitational-wave detections on the ground; ones with much longer arms are being planned for space-based detection. One fundamental...
Interferometers for Displacement-Noise-Free Gravitational-Wave Detection (2006)
Chen, Yanbei, Pai, Archana, Somiya, Kentaro, Kawamura, Seiji, Sato, Shuichi, Kokeyama, Keiko, ...
We propose a class of displacement- and laser-noise-free gravitational-wave-interferometer configurations, which does not sense nongeodesic mirror motion and laser noise, but provides a nonvanishing...
Sato, Shuichi, Kawamura, Seiji, Kokeyama, Keiko, Ward, Robert L., Chen, Yanbei, Pai, Archana, ...
We have demonstrated displacement- and frequency-noise free laser interferometry (DFI) by partially implementing a recently proposed optical configuration using bi-directional Mach-Zehnder...
It was recently proposed to use extra-galactic point sources to constrain space-time quantum fluctuations in the universe. In these proposals, the fundamental "fuzziness" of distance caused by...
Interferometers for Displacement-Noise-Free Gravitational-Wave Detection (2006)
Chen, Yanbei, Pai, Archana, Somiya, Kentaro, Kawamura, Seiji, Sato, Shuichi, Kokeyama, Keiko, ...
We propose a class of displacement- and laser-noise free gravitational-wave-interferometer configurations, which does not sense non-geodesic mirror motions and laser noises, but provides...
Squeezed-state source using radiation-pressure-induced rigidity (2006)
Corbitt, Thomas, Chen, Yanbei, Khalili, Farid, Ottaway, David, Vyatchanin, Sergey, Whitcomb, Stu, ...
We propose an experiment to extract ponderomotive squeezing from an interferometer with high circulating power and low mass mirrors. In this interferometer, optical resonances of the arm cavities are...
Displacement- and Timing-noise Free Gravitational-wave Detection (2006)
Motivated by a recently-invented scheme of displacement-noise-free gravitational-wave detection, we demonstrate the existence of gravitational-wave detection schemes insusceptible to both...
Transition from inspiral to plunge in precessing binaries of spinning black holes (2006)
Buonanno, Alessandra, Chen, Yanbei, Damour, Thibault
We investigate the non-adiabatic dynamics of spinning black hole binaries by using an analytical Hamiltonian completed with a radiation-reaction force, containing spin couplings, which matches the...
Extracting Information about EMRIs using Time-Frequency (2006)
Wen, Linqing, Chen, Yanbei, Gair, Jonathan
The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes are some of the most exciting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent...
Extracting Information about EMRIs using Time-Frequency Methods (2006)
Wen, Linqing, Chen, Yanbei, Gair, Jonathan
The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes are some of the most exciting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent...
Somiya, K., Chen, Yanbei, Kawamura, S., Mio, N.
The sensitivity of next-generation gravitational-wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO and LCGT should be limited mostly by quantum noise with an expected technical progress to reduce seismic noise...
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational-wave bursts in data from the three LIGO interferometric detectors during their third science run. The search targets sub-second bursts in the frequency range...
Savov, Pavlin, Agresti, Juri, Chen, Yanbei, D'Ambrosio, Erika
In his recent work on a tilt instability for advanced LIGO interferometers, P. Savov discovered numerically a unique duality relation between the eigenspectra of paraxial optical cavities with...
Buonanno, Alessandra, Chen, Yanbei, Pan, Yi, Tagoshi, Hideyuki, Vallisneri, Michele
Detection template families (DTFs) are built to capture the essential features of true gravitational waveforms using a small set of phenomenological waveform parameters. Buonanno, Chen, and...
Buonanno, Alessandra, Chen, Yanbei, Pan, Yi, Tagoshi, Hideyuki, Vallisneri, Michele
Detection template families (DTFs) are built to capture the essential features of true gravitational waveforms using a small set of phenomenological waveform parameters. Buonanno, Chen, and...
Transition from inspiral to plunge in precessing binaries of spinning black holes (2005)
Buonanno, Alessandra, Chen, Yanbei, Damour, Thibault
We investigate the non-adiabatic dynamics of spinning black hole binaries by using an analytical Hamiltonian completed with a radiation-reaction force, containing spin couplings, which matches the...
Displacement- and Timing-Noise Free Gravitational-Wave Detection (2005)
Motivated by a recently-invented scheme of displacement-noise-free gravitational-wave detection, we demonstrate the existence of gravitational-wave detection schemes insusceptible to both...
Corbitt, Thomas, Chen, Yanbei, Mavalvala, Nergis
We present a mathematical framework for simulation of optical fields in complex gravitational-wave interferometers. The simulation framework uses the two-photon formalism for optical fields and...
Corbitt,T., Chen,Yanbei, Mavalvala,N.
We present a mathematical framework for simulation of optical fields in complex gravitational-wave interferometers. The simulation framework uses the two-photon formalism for optical fields and...
Buonanno,Alessandra, Chen,Yanbei, Pan,Yi, Tagoshi,Hideyuki, Vallisneri,Michele
Detection template families (DTFs) are built to capture the essential features of true gravitational waveforms using a small set of phenomenological waveform parameters. Buonanno, Chen, and...
Corbitt, T., Chen, Yanbei, Mavalvala, N.
We present a mathematical framework for simulation of optical fields in complex gravitational-wave interferometers. The simulation framework uses the two-photon formalism for optical fields and...
Buonanno, Alessandra, Chen, Yanbei, Pan, Yi, Tagoshi, Hideyuki, Vallisneri, Michele
Detection template families (DTFs) are built to capture the essential features of true gravitational waveforms using a small set of phenomenological waveform parameters. Buonanno, Chen, and...
Displacement-Noise-Free Gravitational-Wave Detection (2004)
We present a new idea that allows us to detect gravitational waves without being disturbed by any kind of displacement noise, based on the fact that gravitational waves and test-mass motions affect...
Buonanno, Alessandra, Chen, Yanbei, Pan, Yi, Vallisneri, Michele
The gravitational waveforms emitted during the adiabatic inspiral of precessing binaries with two spinning compact bodies of comparable masses, evaluated within the post-Newtonian approximation, can...
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
For 17 days in August and September 2002, the LIGO and GEO interferometer gravitational wave detectors were operated in coincidence to produce their first data for scientific analysis. Although the...
Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 (2004)
Woan,G., Allen,Bruce, Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Amin,R., ...
The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct...
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
Data collected by the GEO 600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939...
Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves (2004)
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
We present the analysis of between 50 and 100 h of coincident interferometric strain data used to search for and establish an upper limit on a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. These...
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars (2004)
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers...
LIGO: S1 Science Results and Plans Beyond (2004)
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
For 17 days in August and September 2002, the LIGO and GEO interferometer gravitational wave detectors were operated in coincidence to produce their first data for scientific analysis. Although the...
Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 (2004)
Woan, G., Allen, Bruce, Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Amin, R., ...
The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct...
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Data collected by the GEO 600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939...
Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We present the analysis of between 50 and 100 h of coincident interferometric strain data used to search for and establish an upper limit on a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. These...
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers...
LIGO: S1 Science Results and Plans Beyond (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers...
Pan, Yi, Buonanno, Alessandra, Chen, Yanbei, Vallisneri, Michele
The detection of the gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by precessing binaries of spinning compact objects is complicated by the large number of parameters (such as the magnitudes and initial...
Buonanno, Alessandra, Chen, Yanbei
We study frequency dependent (FD) input-output schemes for signal-recycling interferometers, the baseline design of Advanced LIGO and the current configuration of GEO 600. Complementary to a recent...
This thesis deals with the planning for advanced interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, as well as the detec