Papers

List of MIR related papers (published or work-in-progress).

Work in progress

• Tentative Title: Correlating birefringence in sapphire to dislocation-induced stress
• Topic: stress-birefringence correlation in sapphire bulks
• PWT: Pengbo, Simon, Matteo, MarcoB (external)
• Target Journal: Scientific Reports
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• Status: being written

• Tentative Title: Impact of birefringence in GW detectors: extracting birefringence information from transmitted wavefront error maps
• Topic: birefringence reconstruction from TWE maps
• PWT: Aso, Matteo, ...
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• Status: discussing ideas

• Tentative Title: Impact of birefringence in GW detectors: the KAGRA’s sapphire test masses case
• Topic: birefringence simulations with Finesse
• PWT: Kokeyama, Haoyu, ...
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• Notes: paper written by simulation people (MIF)
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• Status: discussing ideas

Published

• Title: Characterization of Core Optics in Gravitational-Wave Detectors: Case Study of KAGRA Sapphire Mirrors
• Topic: characterization of currently installed (2020) test masses in terms of RoC, Figure error, HSF, PSD, Inhomogeneity, Coating scattering, Coating absorption, coating transmittance and reflectance, Mechanical loss, substrate thermal stability, substrate optical absorption

• Authors: Eiichi Hirose, GariLynn Billingsley, Liyuan Zhang, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Laurent Pinard, Christoph Michel, Danièle Forest, Bill Reichman, and Mark Gross

• Journal: Physical Review Applied
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.014021

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