title: Optical transfer functions of Kerr nonlinear cavities and interferometers.
abstract: We present the optical transfer functions for third-order nonlinear cavities that involve an optical carrier frequency and its modulation sideband fields. Our approach is based on linearized transformations and provides a convenient tool to calculate squeezed light sources as well as complex interferometer topologies, containing subsystems that involve intensity dependent phase shifts, i.e., optical Kerr media. As the result we present the noise spectral density of a Michelson interferometer with Kerr nonlinear arm cavities and resonant sideband extraction and find that quantum noise can be squeezed by arbitrary amounts even outside the cavity linewidth. Such a system might apply for future gravitational wave detectors or simply for a continuous wave source of squeezed states.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Atom- und Molekülphysik, Universität Hannover and Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Callinstrasse 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rehbein
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Harms
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schnabel
authors.forename: Karsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Danzmann