PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Gagliardi, G. AU - Salza, M. AU - Avino, S. AU - Ferraro, P. AU - De Natale, P. TI - Response to Comment on “Probing the Ultimate Limit of Fiber-Optic Strain Sensing” AID - 10.1126/science.1205516 DP - 2012 Jan 20 TA - Science PG - 286--286 VI - 335 IP - 6066 4099 - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/335/6066/286.2.short 4100 - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/335/6066/286.2.full SO - Science2012 Jan 20; 335 AB - Cranch and Foster argue that the strain resolution of our fiber resonator sensor is not limited by thermal noise. However, extension of common theoretical models to high-finesse passive resonators at low frequency needs further attention. Our findings are consistent with noise of thermodynamic nature for which no experimental evidence in the infrasonic range was available until recently.