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Detection of Ultralow Light Power Back-Reflected or Back-Scattered by Optical Components Using Balanced Low-Coherence Interferometry

Imran Khan
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Michel Lequime
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Myriam Zerrad
Claude Amra

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We use balanced optical low-coherence interferometry to measure the ultralow light power back-reflected and/or back-scattered by optical interfaces. Indeed, backscattered light from optical surfaces can be a critical source of noise in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), Virgo, or the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), and therefore, it is required to characterize, with high sensitivity, the scattering properties of elementary components involved in their optical design. The use of a broadband light source makes an easy identification of the scattering interface possible, while the implementation of balanced interferometric detection allows very low light levels to be detected, thanks to the simultaneous use of coherent gain and source intensity noise suppression. Experimental results are reported, first on bare glass optical windows (N-BK7 and S-LAH66) and then on a silver-coated mirror, that demonstrate the ability of this setup to quantify specular- or diffuse-reflectance coefficients as low as 1011.
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Imran Khan, Michel Lequime, Myriam Zerrad, Claude Amra. Detection of Ultralow Light Power Back-Reflected or Back-Scattered by Optical Components Using Balanced Low-Coherence Interferometry. Phys.Rev.Applied, 2021, 16 (4), pp.044055. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.044055⟩. ⟨hal-03423968⟩
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