Abstract
Faraday isolators play a key role in the operation of large-scale gravitational-wave detectors. Second-generation gravitational-wave interferometers such as the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Advanced Virgo will use high-average-power cw lasers (up to 200 W) requiring specially designed Faraday isolators that are immune to the effects resulting from the laser beam absorption-degraded isolation ratio, thermal lensing, and thermally induced beam steering. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study of Faraday isolators designed specifically for high-performance operation in high-power gravitational-wave interferometers.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1784-1792 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2012 |
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