Development of a control scheme of homodyne detection for extracting ponderomotive squeezing from a Michelson interferometer
2006
We developed a control scheme of
homodyne detection. To operate the homodyne detector as easy as possible, a simple
Michelson interferometeris used. Here a motivation that the control scheme of the
homodyne detectionis developed is for our future experiment of extracting the ponderomotively squeezed vacuum fluctuations. To obtain the best signalto- noise ratio using the
homodyne detection, the homodyne phase should be optimized. The optimization of the homodyne phase is performed by changing a phase of a
local oscillatorfor the
homodyne detectionfrom a point at which a signal is maximized. In fact, in this experiment, using the developed control scheme, we locked the
Michelson interferometerwith the homodyne detector and changed the phase of the
local oscillatorfor the
homodyne detection. Then, we measured signals quantity changed by changing the phase of the
local oscillatorfor the
homodyne detection. Here we used the output from the
homodyne detectionas the signal.
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