Fringe-counting technique used to lock a suspended interferometer (original) (raw)
We implement a digital fringe-counting technique to measure in real time the relative mirror displacement of a suspended Michelson interferometer with modulated optical path length for oscillations much larger than the laser wavelength (). This provides the proper error signal for a servo mechanism that reduces the relative displacement within X/2. The implemented technique does not require extra optics or polarizers and thus can be used for interferometric gravitational wave detectors as a starting procedure to get the system locked.
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