LIGOII: RSE vs Power Recycled FP Michelson with injected squeezed vacuum

David McClelland



The current reference design for the LIGOII interferometer features arm cavities which are highly over coupled. In this situation, in the absence of a signal recycling mirror, squeezed light injected into the instrument via the empty beam splitter output port would experience little loss. In this talk I will present predictions on the possible sensitivity of a power recycled FP Michelson interferometer assuming that current state-of-the-art squeezing technology can be applied and compare the performance to that of the reference Resonant Sideband Extraction design for LIGOII.

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