When:
Friday, February 2, 2018
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, F210, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Tina Hoff
(847) 491-3645
Group: AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Title: Quantum Measurements at LIGO
Speaker: Nancy Aggarwal, MIT
Abstract: The precision of gravitational wave measurements by the Advanced LIGO interferometers is limited by the quantization of light. The current generation of detectors will use squeezed light to reduce this quantum noise. I will discuss a new method for generating squeezed states of light that uses the optomechanical interaction between light and mirror oscillators. I will discuss optomechanical squeezing broadly and describe experimental efforts to generate optomechanically squeezed states optimized for gravitational wave detection.