Excess Noise and Photoinduced Effects in Highly Reflective Crystalline Mirror Coatings

Thermodynamically induced length fluctuations of high-reflectivity mirror coatings put a fundamental limit on sensitivity and stability of precision optical interferometers like gravitational-wave detectors and ultrastable lasers. The main contribution—Brownian thermal noise—is related to the mechan...

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Published in:Physical Review X
Main Authors: Jialiang Yu, Sebastian Häfner, Thomas Legero, Sofia Herbers, Daniele Nicolodi, Chun Yu Ma, Fritz Riehle, Uwe Sterr, Dhruv Kedar, John M. Robinson, Eric Oelker, Jun Ye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2023-10-01
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.041002

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