📢 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)

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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

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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]

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#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

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