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- Researchers have explored parametric instabilities as a limiting factor in high-power gravitational wave detectors for a long time.
- This study reports the first observation of these instabilities in a large-scale (kilometer-scale) interferometer.
- The authors detail how they identified this issue and successfully mitigated it, allowing for further advancements in gravitational wave detection.
Article Abstract
Parametric instabilities have long been studied as a potentially limiting effect in high-power interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Until now, however, these instabilities have never been observed in a kilometer-scale interferometer. In this Letter, we describe the first observation of parametric instability in a gravitational wave detector, and the means by which it has been removed as a barrier to progress.
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