Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8203129 | Physics Letters A | 2018 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
We report on the mechanical loss from bulk and shear stresses in thin film, ion beam deposited, titania-doped tantala. The numerical values of these mechanical losses are necessary to fully calculate the Brownian thermal noise in precision optical cavities, including interferometric gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. We found the values from measuring the normal mode mechanical quality factors, Q's, in the frequency range of about 2000-10,000 Hz, of silica disks coated with titania-doped tantala coupled with calculating the elastic energy in shear and bulk stresses in the coating using a finite element model. We fit the results to both a frequency independent and frequency dependent model and find Ïshear=(8.3±1.1)Ã10â4, Ïbulk=(6.6±3.8)Ã10â4 with a frequency independent model and Ïshear(f)=(5.0±0.7)Ã10â4+(5.4±1.1)Ã10â8f, Ïbulk(f)=(11±2.8)Ã10â4â(8.7±4.7)Ã10â8f with a frequency dependent (linear) model. The ratio of these values suggest that modest improvement in the coating thermal noise may be possible in future gravitational wave detector optics made with titania-doped tantala as the high index coating material by optimizing the coating design to take advantage of the two different mechanical loss angles.
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Authors
Matthew Abernathy, Gregory Harry, Jonathan Newport, Hannah Fair, Maya Kinley-Hanlon, Samuel Hickey, Isaac Jiffar, Andri Gretarsson, Steve Penn, Riccardo Bassiri, Eric Gustafson, Iain Martin, Sheila Rowan, Jim Hough,