Concepedia

Quantum-Mechanical Radiation-Pressure Fluctuations in an Interferometer

Carlton M. Caves

Physical Review Letters · 1980 · 608 citations · 6 references

DOI

Concepts

Abstract

The interferometers now being developed to detect gravitational vaves work by measuring small changes in the positions of free masses. There has been a controversy whether quantum-mechanical radiation-pressure fluctuations disturb this measurement. This Letter resolves the controversy: They do.

References

6

Sources of Gravitational Radiation

Patrick J. McCarthy · Physics Bulletin · 1980 · 749 citations

, , +17

Wideband laser-interferometer graviational-radiation experiment

Robert L. Forward · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1978 · 188 citations

, , +15

Quantum-mechanical limitations in macroscopic experiments and modern experimental technique

V. B. Braginskiǐ, Yurii I. Vorontsov · Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk · 1974 · 125 citations · Full text

, , +10

Limits to the measurement of displacement in an interferometric gravitational radiation detector

W. A. Edelstein, J. Hough, John R. Pugh et al. · Journal of Physics E Scientific Instruments · 1978 · 89 citations

, , +16

An argon laser interferometer for the detection of gravitational radiation

H. Billing, K. Maischberger, A. Rüdiger et al. · Journal of Physics E Scientific Instruments · 1979 · 72 citations

, , +15