Laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, H Audley, S Babak, J Baker… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Following the selection of The Gravitational Universe by ESA, and the successful flight of
LISA Pathfinder, the LISA Consortium now proposes a 4 year mission in response to ESA's …

Fractional Laser-Frequency Stability with a 7-cm Unequal-Arm Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

V Huarcaya, MD Álvarez, D Penkert, S Gozzo… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
To achieve subpicometer sensitivities in the millihertz band, laser interferometric inertial
sensors rely on some form of reduction of the laser-frequency noise, typically by locking the …

Experimental end-to-end demonstration of intersatellite absolute ranging for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

K Yamamoto, I Bykov, JN Reinhardt, C Bode, P Grafe… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a gravitational wave detector in space. It
relies on a postprocessing technique named time-delay interferometry to suppress the …

Bi-directional PRN laser ranging and clock synchronization for TianQin mission

S Xie, H Zeng, Y Pan, D He, S Jiang, Y Li, Y Du… - Optics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Laser frequency coupling noise due to unbalanced arm lengths is the dominant noise
source for space-based gravitational wave detection. Time-delay interferometry is a …

Enhanced frequency noise suppression for LISA by combining cavity and arm locking control systems

JT Valliyakalayil, AJH Sutton, RE Spero, DA Shaddock… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
This paper presents a novel method for laser frequency stabilization in the Laser
Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission by locking a laser to two stable length …

Deep frequency modulation interferometry

O Gerberding - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Laser interferometry with pm/Hz precision and multi-fringe dynamic range at low frequencies
is a core technology to measure the motion of various objects (test masses) in space and …

Performance analysis of sequential carrier-and code-tracking receivers in the context of high-precision space-borne metrology systems

P Euringer, G Hechenblaikner… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future space observatories achieve the detection of gravitational waves by interferometric
measurements of a carrier phase, allowing to determine relative distance changes, in …

Compensation of front-end and modulation delays in phase and ranging measurements for time-delay interferometry

P Euringer, N Houba, G Hechenblaikner, O Mandel… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
In the context of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), the laser subsystems
exhibit frequency fluctuations that introduce significant levels of noise into the …

Readout for intersatellite laser interferometry: Measuring low frequency phase fluctuations of high-frequency signals with microradian precision

O Gerberding, C Diekmann, J Kullmann… - Review of Scientific …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Precision phase readout of optical beat note signals is one of the core techniques required
for intersatellite laser interferometry. Future space based gravitational wave detectors like …

Time-delay interferometry with local delays for TianQin

Z Wang, W Xu, K Wu, S Yang, H Duan, Y Du, X Zhang… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Time-delay interferometry (TDI) is a postprocessing technique used to suppress the laser
phase noise for space-based gravitational wave detectors such as TianQin, by applying …