Thermal noise of a plano-convex mirror

✍ Scribed by A. Heidmann; P.F. Cohadon; M. Pinard

• Book ID: 104337865
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 90 KB
• Volume: 263
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9601
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9601(99)00704-5

✦ Synopsis

We study theoretically the internal thermal noise of a mirror coated on a plano-convex substrate. The comparison with a cylindrical mirror of the same mass shows that the effect on a light beam can be reduced by a factor 10, improving the sensitivity of high-precision optical experiments such as gravitational-wave interferometers.