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Publications

Here is a collection our most recent papers. Either a link to the publishers web site or where possible copies of the preprints including figures are available in pdf format. These are best viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader available from the Adobe web site.

Note: Published articles listed below are Copyright © by the respective publishers, and may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the respective publisher.

For papers published between 1998 and 2007, please follow the links below:

2003 - 2007
1998 - 2002

2012

• Polarization speed meter for gravitational-wave detection
  A. R. Wade, K. McKenzie, Y. Chen, D. A. Shaddock, J. H. Chow and D. E. McClelland
  Phys. Rev D 86, 062001 (2012)

• Digitally enhanced homodyne interferometry
  A. Sutton, O. Gerberding, G. Heinzel, and D. Shaddock
  Opt. Express  20, 22195-22207 (2012)

• Balanced homodyne detection of optical quantum states at audio-band frequencies and below
  M .S. Stefszky, C. M. Mow-Lowry, S. S. Y. Chua, D. A. Shaddock, B. C. Buchler, H. Vahlbruch, A. Khalaidovski, R. Schnabel, P. K. Lam and D. E. McClelland
  Class. Quantum Grav. 29 145015 (2012)

• All-Digital Radio-Frequency Signal Distribution Via Optical Fibers
  M. T. L. Hsu, Y. He, D. A. Shaddock, R. B. Warrington, and M. B. Gray
  IEEE Photonics Technology Letters , vol. 24, no.12, pp.1015-1017, June 15 (2012)

• Linearization and minimization of cyclic error with heterodyne laser interferometry
  T. G. McRae, M. T. L. Hsu, C. H. Freund, D. A. Shaddock, J. Herrmann, and M. B. Gray
  Optics Letters 37, 2448-2450 (2012)

• Subfrequency noise signal extraction in fiber-optic strain sensors using postprocessing
  T. T-Y. Lam, M. B. Gray, D. A. Shaddock, D. E. McClelland, and J. H. Chow
  Optics Letters 37, 2169-2171 (2012)

• Critical coupling control of a microresonator by laser amplitude modulation
  J. H. Chow, M. A. Taylor, T. T-Y. Lam, J. Knittel, J. D. Sawtell-Rickson, D. A. Shaddock, M. B. Gray, D. E. McClelland, and W. P. Bowen
  Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 11, pp. 12622-12630 (2012)

• The “Chimera”: An Off-The-Shelf CPU/GPGPU/FPGA Hybrid Computing Platform
  R. Inta, D. J. Bowman, and S. M. Scott
  Int. J. Reconfigurable Computing, ‘Special Issue on High Performance Reconfigurable Computing,’ April 1 (2012)

• Arm-length stabilisation for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors using frequency-doubled auxiliary lasers
  A. J. Mullavey, B. J. J. Slagmolen, J. Miller, M. Evans, P. Fritschel, D. Sigg, S. J. Waldman, D. A. Shaddock, and D. E. McClelland
  Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 81-89 (2012)

2011

• Backscatter tolerant squeezed light source for advanced gravitational-wave detectors
  S. S. Y. Chua, M. S. Stefszky, C. M. Mow-Lowry, B. C. Buchler, S. Dwyer, D. A. Shaddock, P. K. Lam, and D. E. McClelland
  Optics Letters 36, 4680-4682 (2011)

• Tip-tilt mirror suspension: Beam steering for advanced laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory sensing and control signals
  B. J. J. Slagmolen, A. J. Mullavey, J. Miller, D. E. McClelland, and P. Fritschel
  Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 125108 (2011)

• Effects of mirror aberrations on Laguerre-Gaussian beams in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors
  T. Hong, J. Miller, H. Yamamoto, Y. Chen, and R. Adhikari
  Phys. Rev D 78, 102001 (2011)

• Lasers and optics: looking towards third generation gravitational wave detectors
  N. Mavalvala, D. E. McClelland, G. Mueller, D. H. Reitze, R. Schnabel, and B. Willke
  General Relativity and Gravitation Volume: 43 Issue: 2 Pages: 569-592 (2011)

• An investigation of doubly-resonant optical parametric oscillators and nonlinear crystals for squeezing
  M. Stefszky, C. M. Mow-Lowry, K. McKenzie, S. Chua, B. Buchler, T. Symul, D. E. McClelland, and P. K. Lam
  J. of Phys. B (Atomic and Optics) Volume: 44 Issue: 1 Article Number: 015502 (2011)

• Laser frequency noise immunity in multiplexed displacement sensing
  D. M. R. Wuchenich, T. T.-Y. Lam, J. H. Chow, D. E. McClelland, and D. A. Shaddock
  Optics Letters, Vol. 36, Issue 5, pp. 672-674 (2011)

• Progress in interferometry for LISA at JPL
  R. Spero, B. Bachman, G. de Vine, J. Dickson, W. Klipstein, T. Ozawa, K. McKenzie, D. Shaddock, D. Robison, A. Sutton and B. Ware
  Class. Quantum Grav. 28 094007 (2011)

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2010

• Subpicometer length measurement using heterodyne laser interferometry and all-digital rf phase meters
  M. T. L. Hsu, I. C. M. Littler, D. A. Shaddock, J. Herrmann, R. B. Warrington and M. B. Gray
  Optics Letters 35, 4202-4204 (2010)

• Quantum metrology for gravitational wave astronomy
  R. Schnabel, N. Mavalvala, D. E. McClelland, and P. K. Lam
  Nature Communications Volume 1 Article Number: 121 (2010)

• Optical Fiber Sensing Based on Reflection Laser Spectroscopy
  G. Gagliardi, M. Salza, P. Ferraro, E. Chehura, R. P. Tatam, T. K. Gangopadhyay, N. Ballard, D. Paz-Soldan, J. A. Barnes, H.-P. Loock, T. T.-Y. Lam, J. H. Chow and P. De Natale
  Sensors, Vol. 10, Issue 3, 1823-1845 (2010)

• Laser ranging and communications for LISA
  A. Sutton, K. McKenzie, B. Ware, and D. A. Shaddock
  Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 20, pp. 20759-20773 (2010)

• Optical fiber three-axis accelerometer based on lasers locked to π phase-shifted Bragg gratings
  T. T-Y Lam, G. Gagliardi, M. Salza, J. H. Chow and P. De Natale
  Meas. Sci. Technol. 21, 9, 094010 (2010)

• High-resolution absolute frequency referenced fiber optic sensor for quasi-static strain sensing
  T. T.-Y. Lam, J. H. Chow, D. A. Shaddock, I. C. M. Littler, G. Gagliardi, M. B. Gray, and
  D. E. McClelland
  Appl. Opt. 49, 4029-4033 (2010)

• Optical Fiber Sensing Based on Reflection Laser Spectroscopy
  G Gagliardi, M Salza, P Ferraro, E Chehura, R P Tatam, T K Gangopadhyay, N Ballard, D Paz-Soldan, J A Barnes, H Loock, T T.-Y. Lam, J H Chow and P De Natale
  Sensors 10(3), 1823-1845 (2010)

• Experimental demonstration of impedance match locking and control for coupled resonators
  D. S. Rabeling, J. H. Chow, M. B. Gray and D. E. McClelland
  Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 9, pp. 9314-9323 (2010)

• Digital Laser Frequency Stabilization Using an Optical Cavity
  T. T.-Y. Lam, B. J. J. Slagmolen, J. H. Chow, I. C. M. Littler, D. E. McClelland and D. A. Shaddock
  IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 46, Issue 8, pp. 1178-1183 (2010)

• Optical-Fiber Accelerometer Array: Nano-g Infrasonic Operation in a Passive 100 km Loop
  I. C. M. Littler, M. B. Gray, T. T.-Y. Lam, J. H. Chow, D. A. Shaddock and D. E. McClelland
  IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 10, Issue 6, pp. 1117-1124 (2010)
  

• A Shot-Noise Limited Fiber Laser Source by Cascaded Passive Optical Filtering
  T. T.-H. Nguyen, J. H. Chow, C. M. Mow-Lowry, M. B. Gray, and D. E. McClelland
  IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 46, Issue 6, pp. 976-980 (2010)
  

• Stable transfer of an optical frequency standard via a 4.6km fiber
  A. J. Mullavey, B. J. J. Slagmolen, D. A. Shaddock, and D. E. McClelland
  Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 5, pp. 5213-5220 (2010)

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2009

• A Comparison between Digital and Analog Pound-Drever-Hall Laser Stabilization
  T. T. Lam, S. Chua, B. J. Slagmolen, J. H. Chow, I. C. Littler, D. E. McClelland, and D. A. Shaddock, in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2009), paper JThE89.
  

• Encoding cosmological futures with conformal structures
  P.A. Höhn and S.M. Scott
  Class. Quantum Grav. 26, 035019 (2009)
  
  
• A Stabilized Fiber Laser for High-Resolution Low-Frequency Strain Sensing
  T. T.-Y. Lam, J. H. Chow, C. M. Mow-Lowry, D. E. McClelland, and I. C. M Littler
  Sensors Journal, IEEE Volume 9, Issue 8, Page(s):983 - 986
  Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2024040 (2009)

• Pico-strain multiplexed fiber optic sensor array operating down to infra-sonic frequencies
  I. C. M Littler, M. B. Gray, J. H. Chow, D. A. Shaddock and D.E. McClelland
  Optics Express Vol. 17, Issue 13, pp 11077-11087 (2009)
  

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2008

• Searching for gravitational waves from Cassiopeia A with LIGO
  K Wette, B J Owen, B Allen, M Ashley, J Betzwieser, N Christensen, T D Creighton, V Dergachev, I Gholami, E Goetz, R Gustafson, D Hammer, D I Jones, B Krishnan, M Landry, B Machenschalk, D E McClelland, G Mendell, C J Messenger, M A Papa, P Patel, M Pitkin, H J Pletsch, R Prix, K Riles, L Sancho de la Jordana, S M Scott, A M Sintes, M Trias, J T Whelan and G Woan
  Class. Quantum Grav. 25 235011 (2008)
  

• Quiescent cosmology and the final state of the universe
  P.A.Höhn and S.M. Scott
  International Journal of Modern Physics D 17, 571–576 (2008)
  

• Using generalized PowerFlux methods to estimate the parameters of periodic
  gravitational waves
  G Mendell and K Wette
  Class. Quantum Grav. 25 114044 (2008)
  
  
• Quantum-field dynamics of expanding and contracting Bose-Einstein condensates
  S. Wüster, B.J. Dabrowska-Wüster, S.M. Scott, J.D. Close and C.M. Savage
  Physical Review A 77, 023619 (2008)

• Laser frequency stabilization by dual arm locking for LISA
  A. Sutton and D. A. Shaddock
  Phys. Rev D 78, 082001 (2008)
  

• Space-based gravitational wave detection with LISA
  D. A. Shaddock
  Class. Quantum Grav. 25 114012 (2008)

• Impact of non-stationary events on low frequency homodyne detection
  S. Chua, K. McKenzie, B. C. Buchler and D. E. McClelland
  J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 122 012023 (2008)
  
  
• A framework for the discussion of singularities in general relativity
  B.E. Whale and S.M. Scott
  Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity
  ed. H. Kleinert, R.T. Jantzen and R. Ruffini (Singapore: World Scientific) (2008) pp 2119–2121
  

• Numerical wave optics and the lensing of gravitational waves by globular clusters
  A.J. Moylan, D.E. McClelland, S.M. Scott, A.C. Searle and G.V. Bicknell
  Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity
  ed. H. Kleinert, R.T. Jantzen and R. Ruffini (Singapore: World Scientific) (2008) pp 807–823

• Using active resonator impedance matching for shot-noise limited, cavity enhanced amplitude modulated laser absorption spectroscopy
  J. H. Chow, I. C. Littler, D. S. Rabeling, D. E. McClelland, and M. B. Gray
  Opt. Express 16, 7726-7738 (2008)
  
  
• The science benefits and preliminary design of the southern hemishpere gravitational
  wave detector AIGO
  D.G. Blair, P. Barriga, A.F. Brooks, P. Charlton, D. Coward, J.-C. Dumas, Y. Fan, D. Galloway, S. Gras, D.J. Hosken, E. Howell, S. Hughes, L. Ju, D.E. McClelland, A. Melatos, H. Miao, J. Munch, S.M. Scott, B.J.J. Slagmolen, P.J. Veitch, L. Wen, J.K. Webb, A. Wolley, Z. Yan and C. Zhao
  Journal of Physics Conference Series 122, 012001 (2008)

• Cooling of a Gram-Scale Cantilever Flexure to 70 mK with a Servo-Modified Optical Spring
  C.M. Mow-Lowry, A.J. Mullavey, S. Goßler, M.B. Gray and D.E. McClelland
  Phys.Rev.Lett. 100, 010801 (2008)