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Study finds how new technology enhances gravitational-wave detection – World News Network

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Last updated: February 16, 2025 12:00 am
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California [US], February 16 (ANI): A team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside, demonstrated how new optical technology can extend the detection range of gravitational-wave observatories such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, and pave the way for future observatories.
Since 2015, observatories like LIGO have opened a new window on the universe. Plans for future upgrades to the 4-kilometer LIGO detectors and the construction of a next-generation 40-kilometer observatory, Cosmic Explorer, aim to push the gravitational-wave detection horizon to the earliest times in the history of the universe, before the first stars formed. However, realizing these plans hinges on achieving laser power levels exceeding 1 megawatt, far beyond LIGO’s capabilities today.
The research paper reports a breakthrough that will enable gravitational-wave detectors to reach extreme laser powers. It presents a new low-noise, high-resolution adaptive optics approach that can correct the limiting distortions of LIGO’s main 40-kilogram mirrors, which arise with increasing laser power due to heating.
Gravitational waves are a new way to observe the universe. They are predicted by the equations of general relativity. When massive objects accelerate or collide in the universe, distortions in the fabric of space-time propagate out like ripples in a pond at the speed of light. These distortions are gravitational waves and, like electromagnetic waves, they carry energy and momentum. We now have a lot of information about the extreme astrophysical objects like black holes that create them and about the physics of the underlying nature of spacetime that these waves travel through to reach us.
LIGO is one of the largest pieces of scientific equipment in the world. It consists of two 4 kilometers by 4 kilometers-long laser interferometers. One of these interferometers is in inland Washington State; the other is outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana. These sister sites operate in tandem, passively listening to any distortions of spacetime that might happen to propagate through Earth as a gravitational wave.
LIGO so far has seen about 200 events of stellar mass compact objects colliding and merging with each other. The overwhelming majority have been mergers of two black holes, but we’ve also seen mergers of neutron stars. I hope we may one day detect some source that is completely unexpected and unpredicted. If you look at the history of astronomy, every time we’ve developed electromagnetic telescopes that can observe a different wavelength of light than has never been observed before, we see the universe literally in a new light and have almost always discovered new types of objects visible in that wavelength band but not in others. I hope the same is true for gravitational waves.
My focus at UCR is on developing new types of laser adaptive optical technology to overcome very fundamental physics limitations to how sensitive we can make detectors like LIGO. Across the majority of gravitational wave signal frequencies we can see from the ground, almost all of them are limited in sensitivity by quantum mechanics, by the quantum properties of the laser light itself that we use in the interferometer to bounce off mirrors.
The instrument we’ve developed in my lab is designed to deliver precision optical corrections directly to the main mirrors of the LIGO interferometers. Our instrument is designed to sit just centimeters in front of the reflective surface of these mirrors and project very low noise corrective infrared radiation onto the front surface of the mirror. It is the first prototype for a totally new type of approach that uses non-imaging optical principles, which has never been used in gravitational wave detection before.
Cosmic Explorer is the U.S. concept for a next-generation gravitational-wave observatory, after LIGO. It will be 10 times the size of LIGO, so that’s 40 by 40-kilometer-long interferometer arms. It will be the largest scientific instrument ever built. At their design sensitivity, these detectors will see the universe at earlier times than when the first stars are believed to have formed, when the universe was about 0.1% of its present 14-billion-year age. We will be able to see a snapshot of the universe at a very early stage in time.
The paper demonstrates that high-precision optical corrections are essential to expanding our gravitational-wave view of the universe. It lays out the potential implications for the impact we expect our new technology to have in the next generation of LIGO and in the years beyond that. Importantly, the paper shows that this type of technology is necessary and adequate to enable much higher levels of circulating laser power in the LIGO detectors than ever before. We expect this technology, and future versions of it, will be able to achieve more power in the interferometer.
This research promises to answer some of the deepest questions in physics and cosmology, such as how fast the universe is expanding and the true nature of black holes. There are two contradicting measures right now of the local expansion rate of the universe, which gravitational waves can potentially resolve. Gravitational waves will also provide exquisitely high precision measurements of the detailed dynamics around the event horizons of black holes, allowing us to make direct tests of classical general relativity and alternative theories. (ANI)


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