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Possible consequences of high optical power on AdL optical coatings Dave Reitze UF

Possible consequences of high optical power on AdL optical coatings Dave Reitze UF. Some numbers. Advanced LIGO Arm Cavities Design stored power is 800 kW this is a lot of power Compare LIGO 1 design: 18 kW For a 6 cm radius spot, intensity at mirror surface is 7 kW/cm 2

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Possible consequences of high optical power on AdL optical coatings Dave Reitze UF

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  1. Possible consequences of high optical power on AdL optical coatings Dave Reitze UF LIGO R&D

  2. Some numbers Advanced LIGO Arm Cavities • Design stored power is 800 kW • this is a lot of power • Compare LIGO 1 design: 18 kW • For a 6 cm radius spot, intensity at mirror surface is 7 kW/cm2 • Defined by 1/e criterion • Compare LIGO 1 design: 0.5 kW/cm2 • This is actually not a very high intensity but it will be sustained over very long periods Advanced LIGO Mode Cleaner • Design stored power is 100 kW • Compare LIGO 1: 3.4 kW • For a 2.1 mm radius spot, intensity (flat mirror surfaces) is 720 kW/cm2 • Higher intensity ! • Compare LIGO 1: 42 kW/cm2 LIGO R&D

  3. Summary of Ignorance • Advanced LIGO is in a new regime • Very high average power and continuous wave operation • Military work in this area, but hard to get information • Numerous investigations of damage thresholds by pulsed Nd:YAG lasers (NIF, Nova, ….), but few studies of CW damage • Damage mechanisms are different in pulsed and CW regimes • Most information comes from vendor studies • Typical reported CW damage threshold for Nd:YAG, 1064 nm is 1 MW/cm2 • REO claims their coatings will handle higher intensities • Some investigations of mirror contamination and damage for high average power synchrotron and FEL operation • High vacuum, but EUV (even X-ray) operation and pulsed • LLNL AVLIS program did some work on CW damage in the early 90’s LIGO R&D

  4. Issues we would like to understand better • Damage thresholds, mechanisms • Powers and intensities are below typically quoted damage thresholds for CW laser damage, typically > 1 MW/cm2 • Caveat #1: long term effects? • Caveat #2: Contamination-assisted? • Surface nonlinear processes • Multi-photon surface bond-breaking • Hydrocarbon contamination • A nonlinear process, yet over years could be a problem • Contamination • Solid evidence for surface contamination in LIGO based on LHO, LLO experiences • 19 ppm HR surface absorption measured on H1 ITM •  15.2 W of absorbed power when extrapolated to AdL • Weird stuff • Cosmic rays interacting with surface coatings? • Charging of coated surface  hydrocarbon sticking  surface photochemistry? • ??? LIGO R&D

  5. Recommendations I • Talk to outside experts and collect information • CW mirror characteristics under high power: Northrup Grumman, TRW, LLNL • Contamination: we may be the experts in this field, but should talk to people at BNL, ALS, APS, JLAB, Stanford • Experiment #1: Characterize damage thresholds of AdL optical coatings • Raster scan, 1 and 100 s exposures, fixed spot size, increasing power • Post-mortem microscopic examination • Well-established methods for quantitatively determining threshold • Experiment #2: Assessment of long term effects of AdL intensities over sustained periods (~year) on mirror coatings • 10 W into a F=20000 cavity with 1 mm spots  64 kW, 2 MW/cm2 • 10-8 torr vacuum • Monitor: • Linewidth vs. time in situ • Surface second harmonic generation (look for green light from the surface) • Surface contamination vs time in situ • Spatially-resolved sum frequency generation • Periodic surface inspections outside vacuum LIGO R&D

  6. Recommendations II • LIGO 1 mode cleaner could provide some information relevant to AdL arm cavities • Worth doing a careful investigation of cavity properties now that 5 W is going into MC • Monitor linewidth periodically and consistently • Monitor MC REFL spot shape over time • Comparison with MELODY • Next vacuum incursion into L1,H1,H2, visually inspect mirrors for problems • Investigate possibilities for cleaning mirrors ? • “Reversible laser damage of dichroic coatings in a high average power laser vacuum resonator” by Chow, et al. • Near IR (55 kW/cm2) and multi-line argon (1 kW/cm2) irradiation • Degraded performance attributed to loss of surface O atoms • Possible mechanisms for O depletion proposed • All attributed to Ar (green) irradiation • Irradiating degraded mirrors with 10 kW/cm2 in 1-10 T O2 restores performance by replacing O. LIGO R&D

  7. Damage threshold measurement • post mortem analysis using optical microscopy, Nomarksi contrast microscope to identify threshold • statistics required (100 shots) per fluence Nd:YAG Shutter ND filter Lens Mirror Graphic: Spica Optics Raster Scan LIGO R&D

  8. k3R , 3= 1+2 n2= 21/2 n1=11/2 k3T , 3= 1+2 Z R k2, 2 (tunable mid-IR) d m, (2)m k1 , 1 (near IR) CH stretch of methanol at methanol vapour/liquid interface 1= 532 nm, 2= IR Surface Sum Frequency Generation • Resonant enhancement of SFG from chemical bonds of molecules • present on surfaces • Surface sensitive –c(2) contributes only at surface • Non-contact, in situ • High spatial resolution LIGO R&D

  9. Surface Contamination Monitoring Spectrometer 10 W Nd:YAG Laser IR+MIR IR Optical Parametric Amplifier MIR Ultrafast Chirped Pulse Amplifier Vacuum Chamber IR Delay-line LIGO R&D

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