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Different approaches to improve the wavefront of low-loss mirrors used in the VIRGO gravitational wave antenna

J.M. Mackowski, L. Pinard, L. Dognin, P. Ganau, B. Lagrange, C. Michel, and M. Morgue

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Abstract

The franco-italian VIRGO program, which goal is to build a giant Michelson type interferometer (3 km arms) to detect gravitational waves, has fixed very severe optical requirements on the mirrors.

© 1998 Optical Society of America

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