Power-recycled resonant sideband extraction interferometer with polarization detection

Appl Opt. 2005 Jun 10;44(17):3413-24. doi: 10.1364/ao.44.003413.

Abstract

Second-generation interferometric gravitational-wave detectors will use a technique called resonant sideband extraction (RSE) to improve the sensitivity in a narrow, tunable, frequency band. We present a configuration in which we use polarization detection to allow a continuously tunable power-recycled RSE interferometer for a control scheme similar to those of the first-generation detectors. A mathematical model describing this configuration and the results from a tabletop prototype are presented that demonstrate this configuration.