Low thermal noise TiO2-doped GeO2 for gravitational wave detectors
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Davenport, Aaron; Vajente, Gabriele; Demos, Nicholas; Yang, Le; Fazio, Mariana; Ananyeva, Alena; Billingsley, GariLynn; Schiettekatte, Francois; Chicoine, Martin; Markosyan, Ashot; Bassiri, Riccardo; Fejer, Martin M.; Gras, Slawek; Evans, Mathew; Menoni, Carmen S.
- Source
- 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2022 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2022
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical losses
Optical interferometry
Gravitational waves
Optical detectors
Lasers and electrooptics
Thermal noise
Mechanical factors
- Language
TiO 2 doped GeO 2 thin films with excellent optical properties and exceptionally low mechanical loss for a ternary amorphous oxide are used to demonstrate interference coatings with low thermal noise for the test masses of gravitational wave interferometers.