Abstract

We report the first high-precision interferometer using large sapphire mirrors, and we present the first direct, broadband measurements of the fundamental thermal noise in these mirrors. Our results agree well with the thermoelastic-damping noise predictions of Braginsky, et al. and Cerdonio et al., which have been used to predict the astrophysical reach of advanced interferometric gravitational wave detectors.

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