Stefan Goßler

Stefan Goßler has worked on installation and characterization of the double mode-cleaner system of GEO 600. He received his diploma in early 2000 with full marks and honors. After that he continued working for GEO600. During his PhD time, he was the head of the optics suspension team at the GEO600 site. Until mid 2004 he lead the installation work for all optics required for the full dual-recycled operation of GEO600. In 2001 and 2002 his team installed the first ever monolithic all-silica suspensions in a gravitational wave detector. In early 2005 he joined the Center for Gravitational Physics at the Australian National University(ANU) where he worked on low-frequency squeezing, variable reflectivity compound mirrors, suspension thermal noise, and optical cooling of a suspension mode to 70mK with aid of a servo-modified optical spring. He returned to Hannover in November 2006 where he worked on a SiN membrane based Michelson-Sagnac interferometer for quantum-radiation pressure noise as a research scientist at the Max-Planck Institute. As of April 2008 he is a member of the Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research(QUEST) and he leads the group of the AEI 10m prototype interferometer as the coordinator.

Research interests

• Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics
• Sub-SQL Interferometry
• Gravitational-wave Detection
• Thermal Noise

Contact

Stefan Goßler
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Callinstr. 38
30167 Hannover

email: firstname.lastname@aei.mpg.de (ß->ss)
web: 10m-prototype.aei.uni-hannover.de/
phone: +49-511-762 19133
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