Scattered Light Loss from LIGO Arm Cavity Mirrors

Document #:

LIGO-T0900128-v2

Document type:

T - Technical notes

Abstract:

Interprets the striking granular (globular cluster)
nature of images of cavity mode beam spots on cavity mirror
HR surfaces in terms of a statistical "speckle".

Files in Document:

• T0900128 v2 Scattered Light loss from LIGO cavity mirr...pdf (330.4 kB)

Topics:

• Basic R&D
• Core Optics

Authors:

• William Kells

Keywords:

cavity-Loss speckle micro-roughness scattere-light diffraction

Notes and Changes:

Edits and new Figure 5