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physics.ins-det2024★ 9 cited
Development of ion-beam sputtered silicon nitride thin films for low-noise mirror coatings of gravitational-wave detectors
A. Amato, M. Bazzan, G. Cagnoli +32
Brownian thermal noise of thin-film coatings is a fundamental limit for high-precision experiments based on optical resonators such as gravitational-wave interferometers. Here we p…
physics.ins-det2020★ 52 cited
Progress in the measurement and reduction of thermal noise in optical coatings for gravitational-wave detectors
Massimo Granata, Alex Amato, Gianpietro Cagnoli +8
Coating thermal noise is a fundamental limit for precision experiments based on optical and quantum transducers. In this review, after a brief overview of the techniques for coatin…
physics.ins-det2019★ 116 cited
Amorphous optical coatings of present gravitational-wave interferometers
Massimo Granata, Alex Amato, Laurent Balzarini +10
We report on the results of an extensive campaign of optical and mechanical characterization of the ion-beam sputtered oxide layers (TaO, TiO, TaO-TiO, SiO$…