Systematic search of laser and phase modulation noise coupling in heterodyne interferometry
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| author | Yamamoto, Kohei Hartwig, Olaf Wissel, Lennart Leopardi, Holly Numata, Kenji Derosa, Ryan |
| author_facet | Yamamoto, Kohei Hartwig, Olaf Wissel, Lennart Leopardi, Holly Numata, Kenji Derosa, Ryan |
| contents | Heterodyne interferometry for precision science often comes with an optical phase modulation, for example, for intersatellite clock noise transfer for gravitational wave (GW) detectors in space, exemplified by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The phase modulation potentially causes various noise couplings to the final phase extraction of heterodyne beatnotes by a phasemeter. In this paper, in the format of space-based GW detectors, we establish an analytical framework to systematically search for the coupling of various noises from the heterodyne and modulation frequency bands, which are relatively unexplored so far. In addition to the noise caused by the phase modulation, the high-frequency laser phase noise is also discussed in the same framework. The analytical result is also compared with a numerical experiment to confirm that our framework successfully captures the major noise couplings. We also demonstrate a use case of this study by taking the LISA-like parameters as an example, which enables us to derive requirements on the level of the laser and phase modulation noises in the high frequency regimes. |
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| spellingShingle | Systematic search of laser and phase modulation noise coupling in heterodyne interferometry Yamamoto, Kohei Hartwig, Olaf Wissel, Lennart Leopardi, Holly Numata, Kenji Derosa, Ryan Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Applied Physics Optics Heterodyne interferometry for precision science often comes with an optical phase modulation, for example, for intersatellite clock noise transfer for gravitational wave (GW) detectors in space, exemplified by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The phase modulation potentially causes various noise couplings to the final phase extraction of heterodyne beatnotes by a phasemeter. In this paper, in the format of space-based GW detectors, we establish an analytical framework to systematically search for the coupling of various noises from the heterodyne and modulation frequency bands, which are relatively unexplored so far. In addition to the noise caused by the phase modulation, the high-frequency laser phase noise is also discussed in the same framework. The analytical result is also compared with a numerical experiment to confirm that our framework successfully captures the major noise couplings. We also demonstrate a use case of this study by taking the LISA-like parameters as an example, which enables us to derive requirements on the level of the laser and phase modulation noises in the high frequency regimes. |
| title | Systematic search of laser and phase modulation noise coupling in heterodyne interferometry |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Applied Physics Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17802 |