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Toward a new generation of low-loss mirrors for the advanced gravitational waves interferometers
L Pinard1, B Sassolas, R Flaminio
1Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés-CNRS/IN2P3-VIRGO Building, 7, Avenue Pierre de Coubertin 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex France. l.pinard@lma.in2p3.fr
Optics Letters
|April 19, 2011
Abstract:
The new generation of advanced interferometer needs fused silica mirrors having better optical and mechanical properties. This Letter describes the way to reduce the ion beam sputtering coating absorption at 1064 nm and to improve the layer thickness uniformity in order to coat two large mirrors (diameter 35 cm) at the same time.
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