Kavli Affiliate: Rana X. Adhikari | First 5 Authors: Yuta Michimura, Haoyu Wang, Francisco Salces-Carcoba, Christopher Wipf, Aidan Brooks | Summary: Crystalline materials are promising candidates as substrates or high-reflective coatings of mirrors to reduce thermal noises in future laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors. However, birefringence of such materials could degrade the sensitivity of gravitational […]
Continue.. Effects of mirror birefringence and its fluctuations to laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors