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Hardware-based demonstration of time-delay interferometry and TDI-ranging with spacecraft motion effects

Shawn J. Mitryk*, Guido Mueller, and Josep Sanjuan

  • Department of Physics, University of Florida, PO Box 118440, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8440, USA

  • *smitryk@phys.ufl.edu.
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Phys. Rev. D 86, 122006 – Published 26 December, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.122006

Abstract

This hardware-based experimental simulation of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna implements a real-time electronic duplication of the time-changing inter-spacecraft laser phase delays while measuring heterodyned laser fields with μ cycle phasemeters. The beat note measurements are used to verify the capabilities of theorized post-processing time-delay interferometry combinations in the proper time-scaled and time-shifted linear combinations. The experiments meet the 18  pm/Hz sensitivity goal of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna after demonstrating the cancellation of 100  Hz/Hz laser phase noise by time-delay interferometry-ranging the time-varying arm length to an accuracy better than 2.0 m using a frequency-modulated ranging tone.

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Phys. Rev. D 86, 122006– Published 26 December, 2012
  • Received 19 June 2012

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