Utilizing 3.6μm mid-IR fibre lasers beams for thermal lensing compensation in LIGO detectors

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2025

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Henderson-Sapir, O.
Maclean, M.
Sentschuk, S.
Brown, D.D.
Ottaway, D.J.

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Peterka, P.
Ballato, J.
Kalli, K.
Mendez, A.

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Proceedings of SPIE, 2025 / Peterka, P., Ballato, J., Kalli, K., Mendez, A. (ed./s), vol.13522, pp.35221W-1-35221W-2

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Ori Henderson-Sapir, Michael Maclean, Samuel Sentschuk, Daniel D. Brown, David J. Ottaway

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Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and their Applications (WSOF) (7 Apr 2025 - 10 Apr 2025 : Prague, Czech Republic)

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Power scaling in LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational Observatory) is limited by thermal lensing in the interferometer’s test masses. We propose using mid-IR, 3.6 μm fibre laser reflected off spatial light modulators to counteract the distortion

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