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Measurements of mechanical thermal noise and energy dissipation in optical dielectric coatings

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In recent years an increasing number of devices and experiments are shown to be limited by mechanical thermal noise. In particular sub-Hertz laser frequency stabilization and gravitational wave detectors, that are able to measure fluctuations of 1E-18 m/rtHz or less, are being limited by thermal noise in the dielectric coatings deposited on mirrors. In this paper we present a new measurement of thermal noise in low absorption dielectric coatings deposited on micro-cantilevers and we compare it with the results obtained from the mechanical loss measurements. For the first time the coating thermal noise is measured on a wide range of frequencies with high signal to noise ratio. In addition we present a novel technique to deduce the coating mechanical losses from the measurement of the mechanical quality factor which does not rely on the knowledge of the coating and substrate Young moduli. The dielectric coatings are deposited by ion beam sputtering. The results presented here give a frequency independent loss angle of (4.70 ± 0.07)x1E-4 with a Young's modulus of 118 GPa for annealed tantala from 10 Hz to 20 kHz. For as-deposited silica, a weak frequency dependence (~ f^{-0.025}) is observed in this frequency range, with a Young's modulus of 70 GPa and an internal damping of (6.0 ± 0.1)x1E-4 at 16 kHz, but this value decreases by one order of magnitude after annealing and the frequency dependence disappears.
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ensl-00922871 , version 1 (31-12-2013)
ensl-00922871 , version 2 (10-03-2014)

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Tianjun Li, Felipe A. Aguilar Sandoval, Mickael Geitner, Gianpietro Cagnoli, Vincent Dolique, et al.. Measurements of mechanical thermal noise and energy dissipation in optical dielectric coatings. 2013. ⟨ensl-00922871v1⟩
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