Abstract
Through in-depth optical characterization including thickness uniformity and optical scatter measurements, we demonstrate that large-area crystalline coatings are a promising alternative to ion-beam sputtered multilayers for low-noise mirrors employed in next-generation gravitational wave detectors.
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