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  • Zirconia-titania-doped tantala optical coatings for low mechanical loss Bragg mirrors 

    Lalande, Émile; Lussier, Alexandre W.; Lévesque, Carl; Ward, Marianne; Baloukas, Bill; Martinu, Ludvik; Gabriele, Vajente; Billingsley, Garilynn; Ananyeva, Alena; Bassiri, Riccardo; Fejer, Martin M.; Schiettekatte, François (American Vacuum Society, 2021-06-10)
    The noise caused by internal mechanical dissipation in the high refractive index amorphous thin films in dielectric mirrors is an important limitation for gravitational wave detection. The objective of this study is to decrease this noise spectral ...