Dr Kirk McKenzie
Areas of expertise
- Quantum Optics 020604
- Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments And Techniques 029904
- General Relativity And Gravitational Waves 020105
- Classical And Physical Optics 020501
- Astronomical And Space Sciences 0201
- Optical Physics 0205
- Aerospace Engineering 0901
Publications
- Stefszky, M, Mow-Lowry, C, McKenzie, K et al. 2011, 'An investigation of doubly-resonant optical parametric oscillators and nonlinear crystals for squeezing', Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 015502 (9).
- Wade, A, McKenzie, K, Shaddock, D et al 2011, 'A polarisation folded speed meter for gravitational wave detection', Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Pacific Rim CLEOPR 2011, IEEE, Sydney Australia, pp. 327-329pp.
- Gray, M, Lam, P, McClelland, D et al. 2010, 'Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from LIGO Science Run 5 and VIRGO Science Run 1', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 715, no. 2, pp. 1438-1452.
- Gray, M, Lam, P, McClelland, D et al. 2010, 'Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with science run 5 ligo data', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 713, no. 1, pp. 671-685.
- Goda, K, Miyakawa, O, Mikhailov, E et al 2008, 'A quantum-enhanced prototype gravitational-wave detector', Nature Physics, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 472-476.
- McClelland, D, Gray, M, Lam, P et al. 2009, 'Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 80, no. 062001, p. 9.
- McClelland, D, Gray, M, Lam, P et al. 2009, 'Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO's S5 data', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 80, no. 122001, p. 14.
- McClelland, D, Gray, M, Lam, P et al. 2009, 'An upper limit in the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin (LIGO)', Nature, vol. 460, no. 7258, p. 5.
- Dickson, J, Gray, M, Lam, P et al. 2009, 'Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state', New Journal of Physics, vol. 11, no. 073032, p. 13.
- McClelland, D, Gray, M, Lam, P et al. 2009, 'Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 80, no. 102002, p. 14.
- Dickson, J, Gray, M, McClelland, D et al. 2009, 'All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-Science-Run Data', Physical Review Letters, vol. 102, no. 111102, p. 6.
- McClelland, D, Gray, M, Lam, P et al. 2009, 'LIGO:the laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory', Reports on Progress in Physics, vol. 72, no. 7, p. 25.
- McClelland, D, Abbott, B, Adhikari, R et al. 2009, 'Stacked search for gravitational waves from the 2006 SGR 1900+14 Storm', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 701, no. 2, pp. L68-L74.
- Gray, M, Lam, P, McClelland, D et al. 2009, 'Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 80, p. 14.
- McClelland, D, Gray, M, Lam, P et al. 2009, 'First LIGO search for Gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 80, no. 062002, p. 11.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2009, 'Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 79, no. 022001, pp. 1-29.
- McClelland, D, Gray, M, Lam, P et al. 2009, 'Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 80, no. 102001, p. 26.
- McClelland, D, Gray, M, Lam, P et al. 2009, 'A powerful veto for gravitational wave searches using data from Virgo's first scientific run', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 26, p. 6.
- McClelland, D, Gray, M, Lam, P et al. 2009, 'Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO's fifth science run', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 80, no. 047101, p. 8.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Implications for the origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO observations', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 681, pp. 1419-1430.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Beating the Spin-Down limit on Gravitational Wave Emission from the Crab Pulsar', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 683, p. 5.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Search for gravitational waves associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts using data from the second,third, and fourth LIGO runs', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 77, no. 6, p. 22.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals in S3 and S4 in LIGO data', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 77, no. 6, p. 13.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Search for S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals for spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 78, no. 4, p. 19.
- Chua, S, McKenzie, K, Buchler, B et al. 2008, 'Impact of non-stationary events on low frequency homodyne detection', Journal of Physics: Conference Series(online), vol. 122, no. 012023, p. 6.
- Baggio, L, Bignotto, M, Bonaldi, M et al. 2008, 'A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 25, no. 095004, p. 16.
- Fotopoulos, N, Abbott, B, Abbott, R et al. 2008, 'Searching for Stochastic gravitational-wave background with the co-located LIGO interferometers', Journal of Physics: Conference Series(online), vol. 122, p. 6.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'The status of GEO 600', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 25, p. 9.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 25, pp. 12p.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Report on an all-sky LIGO search for periodic gravitational waves in the S4 data', Journal of Physics: Conference Series(online), vol. 122.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'First joint search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO and GEO 600 data', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 25, p. 21.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Detection confidence tests for burst and inspiral candidate events', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 25, p. 12.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Comparison of band-limited RMS of error channel and calibrated strain in LIGO S5 data', Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi 2007), ed. Conference Program Committee, IOP Publishing, United Kingdom, p. 6.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Searching for gravitational waves with LIGO', Journal of Physics: Conference Series(online), vol. 110, pp. 062024/1-4.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 77, no. 2.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Results from LIGO observations: Stochastic background and continuous wave signals', Marcel Grossmann meeting on General Relativity 2006, ed. Hagen Kleinert,Robert T Jantzen, World Scientific Publishing Company, London, pp. 2356-2358.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2008, 'Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters', Physical Review Letters, vol. 101, p. 6.
- Ward, R, Adhikari, R, Abbott, B et al 2008, 'dc readout experiment at the Caltech 40m prototype interferometer', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 25, no. 114030, p. 8.
- Gossler, S, Cumpston, J, McKenzie, K et al. 2007, 'Coating-free mirrors for high precision interferometric experiments', Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 76, no. 53810, pp. 1-5.
- Gray, M, Chow, J, McKenzie, K et al 2007, 'Using a Passive Fiber Ring Cavity to Generate Shot-Noise-Limited Laser Light for Low-Power Quantum Optics Applications', IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, no. 14, pp. 1063-1065.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2007, 'Upper Limit map of a background of gravitational waves', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 76, pp. 082003 1-11.
- Ashley, M, Chow, J, Dickson, J et al. 2007, 'Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data from the fourth science run', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 24, no. 21, pp. 5343-5369.
- Ashley, M, Chow, J, Dickson, J et al. 2007, 'Search for gravitational wave radiation associated with the pulsating tail of the SGR 1806- 20 hyperflare of 27 December 2004 using LIGO', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 76, pp. 062003 1-12.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2007, 'Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars', Physical Review E-Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 042001 1-20.
- McKenzie, K, Gray, M, Lam, P et al 2007, 'Technical limitations to homodyne detection at audio frequencies', Applied Optics, vol. 46, no. 17, pp. 3389-3395.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2007, 'Searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1:Results from the second LIGO science run', Physical Review D, vol. 76, pp. 082001 1-35.
- Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R et al. 2007, 'Searching for a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 659, pp. 918-930.
- McKenzie, K, Gray, M, Gossler, S et al 2006, 'Squeezed state generation for interferometric gravitational-wave detection', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 23, pp. 245-250.
- Grosse, N, Bowen, W, McKenzie, K et al. 2006, 'Harmonic Entanglement with Second-Order Nonlinearity', Physical Review Letters, vol. 96, pp. 063601-4.
- Zhao, C, Blair, D, Barriga, P et al. 2006, 'Gingin High Optical Power Test Facility', Journal of Physics: Conference Series(online), vol. 32, pp. 368-373.
- McKenzie, K, Gray, M, Lam, P et al 2006, 'Nonlinear phase matching locking via optical readout', Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 23, pp. 11256-11263.
- McClelland, D, Scott, S, Gray, M et al. 2006, 'Status for Australian Consortium for Interferometric Gravitational Astronomy', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 23, pp. 41-49.
- Chow, J, McKenzie, K, Littler, I et al 2005, 'Dynamic photothermal resonance push-pull in a fiber Bragg grating Fabry-Perot', Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-optics Society (LEOS 2005), ed. Ekaterina Golovchenko, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), Piscataway USA, pp. 860-861.
- Barriga, P, Barton, M, Blair, D et al. 2005, 'Technology developments for ACIGA high power test facility for advanced interferometry', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 22, pp. S199-S208.
- McKenzie, K, Mikhailov, E, Goda, K et al 2005, 'Quantum noise locking', Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 421-428.
- Goda, K, McKenzie, K, Mikhailov, E et al 2005, 'Photothermal fluctuations as a fundamental limit to low-frequency squeezing in a degenerate optical parametric oscillator', Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 72, pp. 043819/1-15.
- McKenzie, K, Grosse, N, Bowen, W et al. 2004, 'Squeezing in the audio gravitational-wave detection band', Physical Review Letters, vol. 93, no. 16, pp. 161105-1 to 161105-4.
- McKenzie, K, Buchler, B, Shaddock, D et al. 2004, 'Analysis of sub-shot noise power recycled Michelson interferometer', Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 21, no. 2004, pp. S1037-S1043.
- Gray, M, Scott, S, Slagmolen, B et al. 2003, 'ACIGA: Status report', in Cruise, M; Saulson, P. (ed.), Gravitational Wave Detection, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, WA, USA, pp. 258-269.
- Jacob, J, Barriga, P, Blair, D et al. 2003, 'Australia's role in gravitational wave detection', Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, vol. 20, no. 2003, pp. 223-241.
- McKenzie, K, Shaddock, D, McClelland, D et al. 2002, 'Experimental Demonstration of a Squeezing-Enhanced Power-Recycled Michelson Interferometer for Gravitational Wave Detection', Physical Review Letters, vol. 88, no. 23, pp. 231102-1 - 4.
- Schyvens, C, Mangos, G, Zhang, Y et al. 2001, 'Telemetric monitoring of adrenocorticotrophin-induced hypertension in mice', Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 758-760.
