Point Absorber Limits to Future Gravitational-Wave Detectors
High-quality optical resonant cavities require low optical loss, typically on the scale of parts per million. However, unintended micron-scale contaminants on the resonator mirrors that absorb the light circulating in the cavity can deform the surface thermoelastically, and thus increase losses b...
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American Physical Society (APS)
2022
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142160 |