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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140100986
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Quantum enhancement of long baseline gravitational wave detectors. This project will design and construct a quantum optical system which when used in future long baseline gravitational wave detectors will enhance sensitivity across their detection frequency band, from 10 Hz to 10 kHz. This project will use this system on small scale optical sensors to prove the concept. In so doing, it will use squeezing to reduce quantum radiation pressure noise for the first time. This system will then be ready for deployment on an early upgrade of Advanced LIGO increasing the science output of this detector, turning gravitational wave detection into gravitational wave astronomy.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 01-2014
End Date: 12-2016
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $575,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments and Techniques | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Quantum Optics | General Relativity and Gravitational Waves
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering |
