Demonstration of displacement- and frequency-noise-free laser interferometry using bidirectional Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Apr 6;98(14):141101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.141101. Epub 2007 Apr 2.

Abstract

We have demonstrated displacement- and frequency-noise-free laser interferometry (DFI) by partially implementing a recently proposed optical configuration using bidirectional Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs). This partial implementation, the minimum necessary to be called DFI, has confirmed the essential feature of DFI: the combination of two MZI signals can be carried out in a way that cancels displacement noise of the mirrors while maintaining gravitational-wave signals. The attained maximum displacement-noise suppression was 45 dB.