Abstract
We present a discussion of the use of amplitude modulation techniques with regard to the length sensing and control of optical cavities for laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Traditional radio-frequency amplitude modulation techniques automatically include phase modulation as a product of the modulation process, which can contaminate the signal after demodulation. In particular, with many length-sensing and control schemes the detected signals are demodulated in quadrature, which, in the case of a traditional amplitude modulation scheme, will result in offsets due to the additional phase modulation. We demonstrate this effect using a simple optical cavity configuration and show that minor adjustments to the modulator system can be used to compensate for the extra modulation components and provide additional flexibility.
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