Thermal noise from optical coatings in gravitational wave detectors

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1569-1574

  Harry, Gregory M ^a,b   Armandula, Helena ^a,c   Black, Eric ^a,c   Crooks, D R M ^d   Cagnoli, Gianpietro ^d   Hough, Jim ^d   Murray, Peter ^d   Reid, Stuart ^d   Rowan, Sheila ^d   Sneddon, Peter ^d   Fejer, Martin M ^e   Route, Roger ^e   Penn, Steven D ^f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL COATINGS; OSCILLATIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL NOISE;

GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; USABLE BANDWIDTH;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 33645281945     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001569     Document Type: Article

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