Albert Einstein Institute 10 m Prototype
The AEI 10 m Prototype Facility is a laboratory located in in Hannover, Germany which will host an ultra-low noise 10 m interferometer for prototyping new technology for gravitational wave detectors.
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Juliane von Wrangel defends PhD
Congratulations to Juliane von Wrangel for completing her PhD! Juliane’s thesis, “Micrometer Precision Bonding and Laser Welding of 100 g Suspensions for the AEI 10m Prototype”, tackled the challenges of preparing the 100 g quasi-monolithic suspensions for the Sub-SQL Interferometer. These, due to their small size, have different challenges compared to the large test mass…
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Going beyond standard quantum limit with an optical spring
Author: Artem Basalaev At the 10 m Prototype, several technologies will be used to reach incredible displacement sensitivity of the main interferometer. Our 100 g test masses will be coated with AlGaAs coatings and suspended by the thin silica wires from seismically-isolated optical tables. This setup will allow us to reach the Standard Quantum Limit…
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LVK Poster Prize awarded to Matteo Carlassara
Congratulations to our PhD student Matteo Carlassara on winning the best poster at the 2023 September LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) meeting held in Toyama, Japan! His poster “Balanced Homodyne Detection at the AEI 10 m prototype: status update” was selected as the best on an experiment/instrumentation topic among a total of more than 100 posters. It outline…