Very high quality factor measured in annealed fused silica

Alexandr Ageev, Belkis Cabrera Palmer, Antonio De Felice, Steven D. Penn, Peter R. Saulson

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Abstract

We present the results of quality factor measurements for rod samples made of fused silica. To decrease the dissipation, we annealed our samples. The highest quality factor that we observed was Q = (2.03 ± 0.01) × 108 for a mode at 384 Kz. This is the highest published value of Q in fused silica measured to date.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3887-3892
Number of pages6
JournalClassical and Quantum Gravity
Volume21
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 21 2004

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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