Evaluation of the performance of polished mirror surfaces for the TAMA gravitational wave detector by use of a wave-front tracing simulation.
We evaluated the performance of polished mirror surfaces for the TAMA interferometric gravitational wave detector by comparing the experimental results with a wave-front tracing simulation. The TAMA mirror surfaces were polished to a roughness of a few nanometer rms. We confirmed that these polished mirrors do not limit the present TAMA sensitivity and that the target shot-noise sensitivity will be achieved with these mirrors, even if a power-recycling technique is introduced in the next stage of the TAMA.
Tomaru
Takayuki
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Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan. tomaru@post.kek.jp
Miyoki
Shinji
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Ohashi
Masatake
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Kuroda
Kazuaki
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Uchiyama
Takashi
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Suzuki
Toshikazu
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Yamamoto
Akira
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Shintomi
Takakazu
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Ueda
Akitoshi
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Tatsumi
Daisuke
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Sato
Shuichi
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Arai
Koji
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Ando
Masaki
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Watanabe
Koji
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Nakamura
Kenji
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Watanabe
Masahiko
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Ito
Kazuhiko
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Kataoka
Izumi
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Yamamoto
Hiroaki
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Bochner
Brett
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Hefetz
Yaron
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