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Temperature induced optical scatter changes in titania-germania coatings
D. P. Kapasi, T. Counihan, J. R. Smith +2
Titania doped with tantala is the high index material (high n) for the optical coatings used in LIGO and Virgo and its thermal noise limits LIGO/Virgo observations of astrophysical…
Use of Bayesian Inference to Diagnose Issues in Experimental Measurements of Mechanical Disk Resonators
Simon C. Tait, Michael J. Williams, Joseph Bayley +2
Gravitational wave detectors, such as LIGO, are predominantly limited by coating Brownian thermal noise (CTN), arising from mechanical losses in the Bragg mirror coatings used on t…
Low thermal noise mirror coatings utilising titanium dioxide and germanium dioxide mixtures
M. Fazio, I. W. Martin, P. Hill +16
Upgrades to ground-based gravitational-wave observatories will require mirror coatings with reduced thermal noise, enabling improved detector sensitivity and extended astrophysical…