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The CAOS Laboratory is one of the main research infrastructures of the PNRR‑ETIC project. The facility will host 15‑metre‑tall vacuum towers designed for the new generation of superattenuators, enabling full‑scale testing of solutions developed for the Einstein Telescope. Conceived as a technological “gym”, CAOS is an open and flexible environment made available to the wider gravitational‑wave community for the development, testing, and validation of advanced experimental concepts.
This contribution presents the laboratory and its distinctive features, which have been specifically designed to meet the requirements of experiments foreseeing a Fabry–Perot cavity aimed at testing key technologies for third‑generation gravitational‑wave interferometers. Particular emphasis is placed on the innovative superattenuator solutions that will be implemented as a first experimental step within the facility.