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Published August 2012 | Submitted + Published
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Large-angle scattered light measurements for quantum-noise filter cavity design studies

Abstract

Optical loss from scattered light could limit the performance of quantum-noise filter cavities being considered for an upgrade to the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) gravitational-wave detectors. This paper describes imaging scatterometer measurements of the large-angle scattered light from two high-quality sample optics, a high reflector and a beamsplitter. These optics are each superpolished fused silica substrates with silica:tantala dielectric coatings. They represent the current state-of-the art optical technology for use in filter cavities. We present angle-resolved scatter values and integrate these to estimate the total scatter over the measured angles. We find that the total integrated light scattered into larger angles can be as small as 4 ppm.

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© 2012 Optical Society of America. Received April 25, 2012; accepted June 25, 2012; posted June 27, 2012 (Doc. ID 167231); published July 27, 2012. This work is supported by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement Cottrell College Science Award #19839 and by National Science Foundation Awards PHY- 0970147, PHY-0854812, and PHY-0555406. We thank our colleagues in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for fruitful discussions about this research and for review of this manuscript.

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