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Title: 
Experimental investigation of a control scheme for a tuned resonant sideband 
extraction interferometer for next-generation gravitational-wave detectors

Authors:
Fumiko Kawazoe, Volker Leonhardt, Shuichi Sato, Tomoko Morioka, Atsushi, 
Nishizawa, Toshitaka Yamazaki, Mitsuhiro Fukushima, Seiji Kawamura, and Akio Sugamoto 

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Title:
Development of Fused Silica Ribbon Fibres for Gravitational Wave Detectors 
and Characterisation of Mechanical Losses

Abstract:
Planned upgrades to the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors will implement all 
fused silica pendulums to reduce thermal noise.  We present development progress
of a CO2 laser based fused silica ribbon pulling and system.  Also presented are
measurements of dissipation in cylindrical laser pulled fibres investigating
losses in the surface, bulk and welded regions of the fibres

Author List:
A. Heptonstall,  A. Cumming,  G. Cagnoli,  J. Hough,  R. Jones,  I. Martin,  
S. Rowan,  C. Torrie,  S. Zech

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Title:
Squeezed light and radiation pressure effects in suspended interferometers

Abstract:
Quantum noise is currently  a limiting noise source at high frequency in GW 
interferometers, and it is expected that it will be the dominant noise source 
across most of the bandwidth of future detectors. I will discuss experiments 
currently being performed to explore squeezed light and radiation pressure 
effects to reduce this noise, and also show how these effects may be used to 
probe quantum mechanics with gram-scale objects.

Speaker: Thomas Corbitt