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Apparatus to Measure Optical Scatter of Coatings Versus Annealing Temperature
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
Apparatus to Measure Optical Scatter of Coatings Versus Annealing Temperature
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