48 research outputs found
Double optical spring enhancement for gravitational-wave detectors
Currently planned second-generation gravitational-wave laser interferometers such as Advanced LIGO exploit the extensively investigated signal-recycling technique. Candidate Advanced LIGO configurations are usually designed to have two resonances within the detection band, around which the sensitivity is enhanced: a stable optical resonance and an unstable optomechanical resonance—which is upshifted from the pendulum frequency due to the so-called optical-spring effect. As an alternative to a feedback control system, we propose an all-optical stabilization scheme, in which a second optical spring is employed, and the test mass is trapped by a stable ponderomotive potential well induced by two carrier light fields whose detunings have opposite signs. The double optical spring also brings additional flexibility in reshaping the noise spectral density and optimizing toward specific gravitational-wave sources. The presented scheme can be extended easily to a multi-optical-spring system that allows further optimization
Creation of a quantum oscillator by classical control
As a pure quantum state is being approached via linear feedback, and the
occupation number approaches and eventually goes below unity, optimal control
becomes crucial. We obtain theoretically the optimal feedback controller that
minimizes the uncertainty for a general linear measurement process, and show
that even in the absence of classical noise, a pure quantum state is not always
achievable via feedback. For Markovian measurements, the deviation from minimum
Heisenberg Uncertainty is found to be closely related to the extent to which
the device beats the free-mass Standard Quantum Limit for force measurement. We
then specialize to optical Markovian measurements, and demonstrate that a
slight modification to the usual input-output scheme -- either injecting
frequency independent squeezed vacuum or making a homodyne detection at a
non-phase quadrature -- allows controlled states of kilogram-scale mirrors in
future LIGO interferometers to reach occupation numbers significantly below
unity.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Cryo X-ray microscope with flat sample geometry for correlative fluorescence and nanoscale tomographic imaging
a b s t r a c t X-ray imaging offers a new 3-D view into cells. With its ability to penetrate whole hydrated cells it is ideally suited for pairing fluorescence light microscopy and nanoscale X-ray tomography. In this paper, we describe the X-ray optical set-up and the design of the cryo full-field transmission X-ray microscope (TXM) at the electron storage ring BESSY II. Compared to previous TXM set-ups with zone plate condenser monochromator, the new X-ray optical layout employs an undulator source, a spherical grating monochromator and an elliptically shaped glass capillary mirror as condenser. This set-up improves the spectral resolution by an order of magnitude. Furthermore, the partially coherent object illumination improves the contrast transfer of the microscope compared to incoherent conditions. With the new TXM, cells grown on flat support grids can be tilted perpendicular to the optical axis without any geometrical restrictions by the previously required pinhole for the zone plate monochromator close to the sample plane. We also developed an incorporated fluorescence light microscope which permits to record fluorescence, bright field and DIC images of cryogenic cells inside the TXM. For TXM tomography, imaging with multi-keV X-rays is a straightforward approach to increase the depth of focus. Under these conditions phase contrast imaging is necessary. For soft X-rays with shrinking depth of focus towards 10 nm spatial resolution, thin optical sections through a thick specimen might be obtained by deconvolution X-ray microscopy. As alternative 3-D X-ray imaging techniques, the confocal cryo-STXM and the dual beam cryo-FIB/STXM with photoelectron detection are proposed
Ion beam lithography for Fresnel zone plates in X-ray microscopy
Fresnel Zone Plates (FZP) are to date very successful focusing optics for
X-rays. Established methods of fabrication are rather complex and based on
electron beam lithography (EBL). Here, we show that ion beam lithography (IBL)
may advantageously simplify their preparation. A FZP operable from the extreme
UV to the limit of the hard X-ray was prepared and tested from 450 eV to 1500
eV. The trapezoidal profile of the FZP favorably activates its 2nd order focus.
The FZP with an outermost zone width of 100 nm allows the visualization of
features down to 61, 31 and 21 nm in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd order focus
respectively. Measured efficiencies in the 1st and 2nd order of diffraction
reach the theoretical predictions
From digital archive to digital edition
Contemporary techniques allow us to handle some 100.000 pages of digitized manuscripts. If it is possible to bring collections of this size at low costs to the desktop of the researcher, the environment of historical research will change fundamentally. To explore these possibilities the Duderstadt Municipal Archive (Stadtarchiv Duderstadt, Germany) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen started a project in 1996. This project aims at developing a computerised version of the files of an entire archive. The older records of the archive are completely digitized and then put at the user's disposal together with registers. The aim is to create a research System which offers not only access to the sources in a way which preserves the originals, but also many facilities for the researcher that go beyond the ordinary work with originals. The second part of this paper goes to the opposite extreme. The possibility of integrating information into a database system opens completely new approaches to the source that can go far beyond a single text. Apart from visualizing information that Gould never he represented in a printed edition, the dynamic digital edition gives access to the various readings of a manuscript and thus deals with the aspects of the source's tradition. A software tool has been developed which supports the creation of digital editions to be build upon digitized collections, such as the one we present here. This project would not exist without the generous sponsoring of the Volkswagen-Stiftung
Achieving ground state and enhancing entanglement by recovering information
For cavity-assisted optomechanical cooling experiments, it has been shown in
the literature that the cavity bandwidth needs to be smaller than the
mechanical frequency in order to achieve the quantum ground state of the
mechanical oscillator, which is the so-called resolved-sideband or good-cavity
limit. We provide a new but physically equivalent insight into the origin of
such a limit: that is information loss due to a finite cavity bandwidth. With
an optimal feedback control to recover those information, we can surpass the
resolved-sideband limit and achieve the quantum ground state. Interestingly,
recovering those information can also significantly enhance the optomechanical
entanglement. Especially when the environmental temperature is high, the
entanglement will either exist or vanish critically depending on whether
information is recovered or not, which is a vivid example of a quantum eraser.Comment: 9 figures, 18 page
QND measurements for future gravitational-wave detectors
Second-generation interferometric gravitational-wave detectors will be
operating at the Standard Quantum Limit, a sensitivity limitation set by the
trade off between measurement accuracy and quantum back action, which is
governed by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. We review several schemes
that allows the quantum noise of interferometers to surpass the Standard
Quantum Limit significantly over a broad frequency band. Such schemes may be an
important component of the design of third-generation detectors.Comment: 22 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; In version 2, more tutorial information
on quantum noise in GW interferometer and several new items into Reference
list were adde
Searching for a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with LIGO
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has performed
the fourth science run, S4, with significantly improved interferometer
sensitivities with respect to previous runs. Using data acquired during this
science run, we place a limit on the amplitude of a stochastic background of
gravitational waves. For a frequency independent spectrum, the new limit is
. This is currently the most sensitive
result in the frequency range 51-150 Hz, with a factor of 13 improvement over
the previous LIGO result. We discuss complementarity of the new result with
other constraints on a stochastic background of gravitational waves, and we
investigate implications of the new result for different models of this
background.Comment: 37 pages, 16 figure