Possible PhD student projects

Classical ground-based interferometry

• Commissioning of the AEI 10m Prototype Interferometer
• Construction and Characterization of a Frequency Reference Cavity at AEI 10m Prototype
• Sqeezing in Advanced Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Interferometry in Space

• LISA Phasemeter
• Electronic and Optical Components for Space-Based Interferometry
• Grace-Follow On: LTI
• Backlink Experiment for LISA
• Data Analysis for LISA Pathfinder
• LISA Optical Bench Development
• Grace follow on: Laser Ranging Interferometer
• Space Interferometry
• Coupling of Beam Tilt in the Path Length Measurement in Interferometers
• Testing of the LISA-Metrology Chain
• GRACE Follow-On: Interferometer Design
• Development of Algorithms for the First Stages of Data Processing of GRACE Follow-On
• Further Development and Characterization of the LPF OMF Ground Setup
• Time-Delay Interferometry

Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors

• Numerical Simulations For Advanced and Third Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors
• Commissioning of the AEI 10m Prototype Interferometer
• Construction and Characterization of a Frequency Reference Cavity at AEI 10m Prototype
• Optical Experiments for ALPS II
• ALPS II
• Novel Methods of Power Stabilization
• Laser stabilization
• ALPS (Any light particle search) "Light-shining-through-a-wall"
• Power Stabilization At and Below the Shot Noise Limit
• Monolithic suspensions for 100g Mirror
• Thermal Noise Measurements

Quantum Control

• MIMO Control of Tiple-Suspended Test Masses
• Coherent Quantum Noise Cancellation
• Ultra-High Sensitivity Optical Phase Shift Measurements

Theoretical Quantum Optics

• Project iQUOEMS

Data Analysis

• Search for weak astrophysical signals
• Searches for Advanced GW detectors
• Gravitational-Wave Detection
• Studies of CBC Processing Waveforms with Application to GW Searches
• Binary Gamma-ray Pulsars

Gravitational-Wave Sources

• Numerical investigations of black hole collisions
• Neutron star normal mode emissions