November 9, 2017

LIGO Mirror Coatings Get Upgrade with New National Collaboration

Effort to improve the next generation of gravitational wave detectors includes atomic studies of new and better coatings for LIGO’s mirrors at SSRL.

An optics technician inspects one of Advanced LIGO’s high-performance mirrors – the heart and soul of the gravitational wave detector. (Matt Heintze/Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab)

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