Abstract
Illuminating a Fabry-Perot ring cavity with high-power laser light demonstrates the effects of thermal distortion of the cavity’s optics, allowing estimations of power handling limitations of resonators for future gravitational-wave detectors.
© 2007 Optical Society of America
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