Mechanical loss in tantala/silica dielectric mirror coatings

Author

Steven D Penn ^1,6, Peter H Sneddon ², Helena Armandula ³, Joseph C Betzwieser ⁴, Gianpietro Cagnoli ², Jordan Camp ^3,7, D R M Crooks ², Martin M Fejer ⁵, Andri M Gretarsson ^1,8, Gregory M Harry ⁴, Jim Hough ², Scott E Kittelberger ¹, Michael J Mortonson ⁴, Roger Route ⁵, Sheila Rowan ⁵ and Christophoros C Vassiliou ⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1130, USA
² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
³ LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91025, USA
⁴ LIGO Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
⁵ Edward L Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4085, USA
⁶ Present address: Department of Physics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, 14456, USA.
⁷ Present address: Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771, USA.
⁸ Present address: LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana, 70754, USA.

Journal

Classical and Quantum Gravity Create an alert RSS this journal

Issue

Volume 20, Number 13

Citation

S D Penn et al 2003 Class. Quantum Grav. 20 2917

doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/20/13/334