Apparatus to Measure Optical Scatter of Coatings Versus Annealing Temperature

Abstract

Light scattered by amorphous thin-film optical coatings limits the sensitivity of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. We describe an imaging scatterometer to assess the role that crystal growth during annealing plays in this scatter.

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