Speakers
Gabriele Vajente
(Caltech)
Joshua Smith
(California State University Fullerton)
Description
Noise from laser backscattering and spurious beam couplings has been an important limitation in first and second generation detectors. In this talk we discuss the on-going design and experimental work for Cosmic Explorer, focusing on the modeling of light scattered by the mirror surface roughness, point defects and noise due to light scattered and diffracted/clipped by the arm cavity baffles.
Primary authors
Gabriele Vajente
(Caltech)
Joshua Smith
(California State University Fullerton)
