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Quantum noise in second generation, signal-recycled laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors

Quantum noise in second generation, signal-recycled laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors

It has long been thought that the sensitivity of laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors is limited by the free-mass standard quantum limit, unless radical redesigns of the interferometers or modifications of their input or output optics are introduced. Within a fully quantum-mechanical approach we show that in a second-generation interferometer composed …