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Daniel Grass - posted 23:55, Monday 22 April 2024 - last comment - 12:12, Tuesday 23 April 2024(11536)
Updated Substrate Thermorefractive Noise

Yuri Levin emailed us pointing out that we didn't use an updated version (2009 vs 2004) of substrate thermorefractive noise that includes contributions from the standing wave in the beamsplitter. Unfortunately, this has pretty major implications for our noise budget. Attached is the updated noise budget and a 2 page summary of my calculations today and some future outlook.

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Daniel Grass - 12:12, Tuesday 23 April 2024 (11537)

Another solution not mentioned in my document: cross-correlating two interferometers. Of course this was already the plan, but maybe we should push harder on this.