Unexpected Noise in Next-Generation Mirror Material

• Physics 16, 170

A crystalline reflective coating being considered for future gravitational-wave detectors exhibits peculiar noise features at cryogenic temperatures.

M. Heintze/Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab

Gravitational-wave detectors rely on mirrors that reflect without introducing too much noise into the light.

Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors need to be less noisy if they are going to help solve lingering…

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