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Interferometers for Displacement-Noise-Free Gravitational-Wave Detection
We propose a class of displacement- and laser-noise free
gravitational-wave-interferometer configurations, which does not sense
non-geodesic mirror motions and laser noises, but provides non-vanishing
gravitational-wave signal. Our interferometer consists of 4 mirrors and 2
beamsplitters, which form 4 Mach-Zehnder interferometers. By contrast to
previous works, no composite mirrors are required. Each mirror in our
configuration is sensed redundantly, by at least two pairs of incident and
reflected beams. Displacement- and laser-noise free detection is achieved when
output signals from these 4 interferometers are combined appropriately. Our
3-dimensional interferometer configuration has a low-frequency response
proportional to f^2, which is better than the f^3 achievable by previous
2-dimensional configurations.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure