Point Absorber Limits to Future Gravitational-Wave Detectors
High-quality optical resonant cavities require low optical loss, typically on the scale of parts per million. However, unintended micron-scale contaminants on the resonator mirrors that absorb the light circulating in the cavity can deform the surface thermoelastically, and thus increase losses by s...
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American Physical Society (APS),
2022-04-28T12:13:48Z.
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