Silica suspension and coating developments for advanced LIGO

G. Cagnoli; H. Armandula; C.A. Cantley; D.R.M. Crooks; A. Cumming; E. Elliffe; M.M. Fejer; A.M. Gretarsson; G.M. Harry; A. Heptonstall; J. Hough; R. Jones; J.-M. MacKowski; I. Martin; P. Murray; S.D. Penn; M. Perreur-Lloyd; S. Reid; R. Route; S. Rowan; N.A. Robertson; P.H. Sneddon; K.A. Strain

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/32/1/059

Silica suspension and coating developments for advanced LIGO

G. Cagnoli, H. Armandula, C.A. Cantley, D.R.M. Crooks, A. Cumming, E. Elliffe, M.M. Fejer, A.M. Gretarsson, G.M. Harry, A. Heptonstall, J. Hough, R. Jones, J.-M. MacKowski, I. Martin, P. Murray, S.D. Penn, M. Perreur-Lloyd, S. Reid, R. Route, S. RowanN.A. Robertson, P.H. Sneddon, K.A. Strain

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Abstract

The proposed upgrade to the LIGO detectors to form the Advanced LIGO detector system is intended to incorporate a low thermal noise monolithic fused silica final stage test mass suspension based on developments of the GEO 600 suspension design. This will include fused silica suspension elements jointed to fused silica test mass substrates, to which dielectric mirror coatings are applied. The silica fibres used for GEO 600 were pulled using a Hydrogen-Oxygen flame system. This successful system has some limitations, however, that needed to be overcome for the more demanding suspensions required for Advanced LIGO. To this end a fibre pulling machine based on a CO2 laser as the heating element is being developed in Glasgow with funding from EGO and PPARC. At the moment a significant limitation for proposed detectors like Advanced LIGO is expected to come from the thermal noise of the mirror coatings. An investigation on mechanical losses of silica/tantala coatings was carried out by several labs involved with Advanced LIGO R&D. Doping the tantala coating layer with titania was found to reduce the coating mechanical dissipation. A review of the results is given here.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	386-392
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume	32
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/32/1/059
Publication status	Published - 2006

Keywords

LIGO
silica suspension
gravitational waves
neutron stars

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Cagnoli, G., Armandula, H., Cantley, C. A., Crooks, D. R. M., Cumming, A., Elliffe, E., Fejer, M. M., Gretarsson, A. M., Harry, G. M., Heptonstall, A., Hough, J., Jones, R., MacKowski, J.-M., Martin, I., Murray, P., Penn, S. D., Perreur-Lloyd, M., Reid, S., Route, R., ... Strain, K. A. (2006). Silica suspension and coating developments for advanced LIGO. Journal of Physics: Conference Series , 32, 386-392. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/32/1/059

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