A room temperature optomechanical squeezer

Decades of advancement in technologies pertaining to interferometric measurements have made it possible for us to make the first ever direct observation of gravitational waves (GWs). These GW emitted from violent events in the distant universe bring us crucial information about the nature of matter and gravity. In order for us to be able to detect GWs from even farther or weaker sources, we must further reduce the noise in our detectors. One of the noise sources that currently limits GW detectors comes from the fundamental nature of measurement itself. When a certain measurement reaches very high precision, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle comes into play. In GW detectors, this uncertainty manifests itself in the quantum nature of the light. Due to its quantum nature, light (or electromagnetic field) has an uncertain amplitude and phase.

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Doctoral

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2019

Author dc:creator

• Aggarwal, Nancy,Ph. D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Nergis Mavalvala.

• Physics.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123354

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123354