11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

The Optical Limit of Phase Measurement in Space Based Interferometry

12 Dec 2022, 11:15
15m
Room R2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R2

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) AIP: Relativity and Gravitation AIP: Relativity and Gravitation

Speaker

Callum Sambridge

Description

This talk discusses a rigorous analysis of phasemeter behaviour in the ultra weak-light regime. We explore the fundamental limit in optical power at which heterodyne phase tracking measurements can be reliably performed, Focused on application in space-based interferometry.

Author

Co-authors

Andrew J. Sutton Andrew Wade (The Australian National University) Jobin Thomas Valliyakalayil (Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, Australian National University) Kirk McKenzie Dr Lyle Roberts

Presentation materials