Cryogenic measurements of mechanical loss of high-reflectivity coating and estimation of thermal noise

Opt Lett. 2013 Dec 15;38(24):5268-71. doi: 10.1364/OL.38.005268.

Abstract

We report on low-frequency measurements of the mechanical loss of a high-quality (transmissivity T<5 ppm at λ(0)=1064 nm, absorption loss <0.5 ppm) multilayer dielectric coating of ion-beam-sputtered fused silica and titanium-doped tantala in the 10-300 K temperature range. A useful parameter for the computation of coating thermal noise on different substrates is derived as a function of temperature and frequency.