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Phys. Rev. D 56, 6085–6095 (1997)

Scattered light noise in gravitational wave interferometric detectors: A statistical approach

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Jean-Yves Vinet
Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, Ecole polytechnique-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, 91120 Palaiseau, France

Violette Brisson
Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire, Bat. 208, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France

Stefano Braccini and Isidoro Ferrante
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Via Livornese 582/a, San Piero a Grado I-56010 Pisa, Italy

Laurent Pinard
Service des Matériaux Avancés, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire, Université Claude Bernard, 43, Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

François Bondu and Eric Tournié
Groupe Laser et Optique, Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur linéaire, Bat. 208, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France

Received 14 February 1997; published in the issue dated 15 November 1997

The sensitivity of interferometric detectors of gravitational waves such as LIGO or VIRGO could eventually be limited by the noise due to scattered light propagation and rescattering in the long vacuum pipes containing the laser beams. We propose a statistical method for evaluating scattered light noise and compare trapping systems, easy to implement in Monte Carlo simulation codes.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.56.6085
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.56.6085
PACS:
04.80.Nn, 42.25.Fx, 95.55.Ym
 
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