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most citedKAGRA: 2.5 Generation Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector

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physics.ins-det2026

Cryogenic Mechanical Loss of GaAs/AlGaAs Crystalline Coatings

Nicholas A. Didio, Steven D. Penn, Satoshi Tanioka +3

Optical coatings with minimal thermal noise are essential for high-precision, laser-based metrology experiments. Substrate-transferred crystalline GaAs/AlGaAs coa…

physics.ins-det2025

In situ substrate birefringence characterization in gravitational wave detectors using a heterodyne polarimetry method

Satoshi Tanioka, Terri Pearce, Yuta Michimura +6

High-quality test mass substrates play essential roles in laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Inhomogeneous birefringence distribution in test mass substrates, howe…

physics.ins-det2025

Birefringence of AlGaAs/GaAs Coatings under Above-Band-Gap Illumination, GR Noise and Photo-Optic Transfer Function

Bin Wu, Shreyan Goswami, Satoshi Tanioka +1

AlGaAs/GaAs coatings are being considered as coating candidates for gravitational-wave detectors. In this paper we investigate the birefringence properties of this crystalline semi…

physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

Development of a polarimetry method toward in-situ substrate birefringence characterization of ground-based gravitational wave detectors

Satoshi Tanioka, Terri Pearce, Keiko Kokeyama

Improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors is necessary to enrich scientific outcome of gravitational wave astronomy. Birefringence in test mass mirrors of gravitati…

physics.ins-det2022★ 7 cited

Study on electro-optic noise in crystalline coatings toward future gravitational wave detectors

Satoshi Tanioka, Daniel Vander-Hyde, Garrett D. Cole +2

Thermal noise in high-reflectivity mirror coatings is a limiting factor in ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Reducing this coating thermal noise improves the sensitivity o…

physics.ins-det2020★ 10 cited

The optical loss study of molecular layer for a cryogenic interferometric gravitational-wave detector

Satoshi Tanioka, Kunihiko Hasegawa, Yoichi Aso

The detection of gravitational-waves provides us with a deep insight into the universe. In order to increase the number of detectable gravitational-wave sources, several future gra…

physics.ins-det2019★ 16 cited

An arm length stabilization system for KAGRA and future gravitational-wave detectors

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +198

Modern ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors require a complex interferometer configuration with multiple coupled optical cavities. Since achieving the resonances of the a…

physics.ins-det2019★ 14 cited

Vibration isolation system with a compact damping system for power recycling mirrors of KAGRA

Y. Akiyama, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +169

A vibration isolation system called Type-Bp system used for power recycling mirrors has been developed for KAGRA, the interferometric gravitational-wave observatory in Japan. A sus…