INJECTION-LOCKING TECHNIQUE FOR THE DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES

After a general presentation of the gravitational waves, this paper sh ows models which have investigated the injection-locking process in va rious fields, and their common result in mechanical, RF, microwave and quantum oscillators, The third chapter presents the two complementary approaches that are necessary to obtain a satifactory noise analysis of the injection-locking process, and the present state-of-the-art con cerning Nd:YAG lasers. Finally, the experimental results confirm the v alidity of the models and the feasibility of the expected performance. The limits of the models and corresponding investigations of interest are indicated.