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
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• 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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