📢 New selected research highlight: Next-level squeezed light for Advanced Virgo – researchers at @mpi_grav and Leibniz University Hannover help set up and characterize the frequency-dependent squeezed-light source
➡️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1063452/next-level-squeezed-light-for-advanced-virgo
📰 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.041403 (Open Access)
#gravitationalwaves #squeezedlight #quantumoptics
New selected research highlight: Improving squeezing performance in GEO600 – Understanding, modelling, and mitigating noise from light scattered back into the gravitational-wave detector’s squeezed-light source.
➡️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1054632/improving-squeezing-performance-in-geo600
Squeezed Light? How can one squeeze light? How this quantum mechanical trick works and why it is an important ingredient of gravitational-wave detectors in this LIGO Magazine article:
➡️ https://www.ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-magazine-issue-3.pdf#page=32 [pdf]
#waiting4o4 #o4 #squeezedlight #technologytuesday
#ThrowbackThursday to when a squeezed light source from @mpi_grav Hannover made the Virgo gravitational-wave detector more sensitive.
➡️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/141833/squeezed-light-success-at-virgo
#throwbackthursday #waiting4o4 #o4 #squeezedlight #gravitationalwaves