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Nature Physics 4, 440 - 441 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys990

Subject Categories: Optical physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics | Techniques and instrumentation

Gravitational wave detectors: Squeezing up the sensitivity

Roman Schnabel1

  1. Roman Schnabel is at the Institute for Gravitational Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover and the Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institute), 30167 Hannover, Germany.
    e-mail: roman.schnabel@aei.mpg.de


Gravitational wave detectors based on laser interferometry have reached an incredible level of sensitivity. But to develop to the level needed to explore the Universe, the next generation of detectors will probably need to use squeezed light.

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