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Prof. Dr. Roman Schnabel
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Prof. Dr. Roman Schnabel

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Email: Roman.Schnabel@aei.mpg.de

Head of the Quantum Interferometry Group:
http://www.qi.aei-hannover.de/

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Institut für Gravitationsphysik
Leibniz Universität Hannover,
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
(Albert-Einstein-Institut)
Callinstr. 38
D-30167 Hannover
Germany

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Curriculum Vitae

Name: Roman Schnabel

Education:
1994-99 PhD Thesis in Physics, Universität Hannover, Institut für Plasmaphysik

1988-94 Study of Physics, Universität Hannover

Academic Appointments:
2008- Professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover
2003-08 Juniorprofessor at Leibniz Universität Hannover
2002 Research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut)
2000-02 Research fellowship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation at the Australian National University, Canberra
2000 Research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching
1994-99 Scientific assistant at Universität Hannover

Awards:
2000 Feodor-Lynen fellowship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation

Professional Societies
DPG (German Physical Society)

Major Research Interests
Quantum Optics
Laser interferometry
Gravitational Physics
Quantum Information

Teaching

Vorlesungen an der Leibniz Universität Hannover
  • Nichtklassische Laserinterferometrie
  • Gravitationsphysik / Laserinterferometrie
  • Nichtklassisches Licht
  • Quantenoptik
  • Physik I (Nebenfach)
  • Physik II (Nebenfach)
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  • Physik für Aufgeweckte, 12. Jan. 2008: „Gequetschtes Licht“

Publications

Semi-popular publications and comments

R. Schnabel, G. Heinzel, H. Lück, B. Willke, K. Danzmann, Wellen aus dem Rauschen fischen, Physik Journal, Oktober, 33 (2009).

Roman Schnabel, Helge Müller-Ebhardt, Henning Rehbein, Verschränkte Spiegel, Physik in Unserer Zeit 39, 234 (2008).

Roman Schnabel, Verschränkung zweier Spiegel, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Juni (2008).

Roman Schnabel, Gravitational wave detectors: Squeezing up the sensitivity, Nature Physics 4, 440 (2008), News and Views.


Refereed publications

[153] J. Abadie et al., A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit, accepted at Nature Physics (2011), doi:10.1038/nphys2083

[152] A. Thüring, R. Schnabel, The critical Kerr non-linear optical cavity in the presence of internal loss and driving noise. Phys. Rev. A, accepted (2011).

[151] S. Ast, R. Moghadas Nia, A. Schönbeck, N. Lastzka, J. Steinlechner, T. Eberle, M. Mehmet, S. Steinlechner, R. Schnabel, High-efficiency frequency doubling of continuous-wave laser light, Opt. Lett., accepted (2011), arXiv:1105.5909.

[150] D. Friedrich, T. Westphal, H. Kaufer, K. Yamamoto, F. Y. Khalili, S. L. Danilishin, A. Sawadsky, S. Goßler, K. Danzmann, R Schnabel, Laser interferometry with translucent and absorbing mechanical oscillators, New J. Phys., accepted (2011), arXiv:1104.3251.

[149] D. Friedrich, B. W. Barr, F. Brückner, S. Hild, J. Nelson, J. Macarthur, M. V. Plissi, M. P. Edgar, S. H. Huttner, B. Sorazu, S. Kroker, M. Britzger, E.-B. Kley, K. Danzmann, A. Tünnermann, K. A. Strain, R. Schnabel, Waveguide grating mirror in a fully suspended 10 meter Fabry-Perot cavity, Opt. Exp. 19, 14955 (2011).

[148] M. Britzger, D. Friedrich, S. Kroker, f. Brückner, O. Burmeister, E.-B. Kley, A. Tünnermann, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, Diffractively coupled Fabry-Perot resonator with power-recycling, Opt. Exp. 19, 14964 (2011).

[147] M. Britzger, D. Friedrich, S. Kroker, f. Brückner, O. Burmeister, E.-B. Kley, A. Tünnermann, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, Pound-Drever-Hall error signals for the length control of 3-port-grating-coupled cavities, Appl. Opt. 50, 4340 (2011).

[146] B. W. Barr, M. P. Edgar, J. Nelson, M. V. Plissi, S. H. Huttner, B. Sorazu, K. A. Strain, O. Burmeister, M. Britzger, D. Friedrich, R. Schnabel, K. Danzmann, J. Hallam, A. Freise, T. Clausnitzer, F. Bru¨ckner, E.-B. Kley, A. Tu¨nnermann, Translational, rotational and vibrational coupling into phase in diffractively-coupled optical cavities, Opt. Lett. 36, 2746 (2011).

[145] D. Friedrich, B. W. Barr, F. Brückner, S. Hild, J. Nelson, J. Macarthur, M. V. Plissi, M. P. Edgar, S. H. Huttner, B. Sorazu, S. Kroker, M. Britzger, E.-B. Kley, K. Danzmann, A. Tünnermann, K. A. Strain, R. Schnabel, Waveguide grating mirror in a fully suspended 10 meter Fabry-Perot cavity, Optics Express 19, 14955 (2011).

[144] T. Kiesel, W. Vogel, B. Hage, R. Schnabel, Entangled Qubits in a non-Gaussian Quantum State, Phys. Rev. A 83, 062319 (2011).

[143] T. Eberle, V. Händchen, J. Duhme, T. Franz, R. F. Werner, R. Schnabel, Strong Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement from a single squeezed source, Phys. Rev. A 83, 052329 (2011).

[142] D. E. McClelland, N. Mavalvala, Y. Chen, R. Schnabel, Advanced interferometry, quantum optics and optomechanics in gravitational wave detectors, Laser Photonics Rev. 5, 677-696 (2011),doi: 10.1002/lpor.201000034.

[141] N. Mavalvala, D. E. McClelland, G. Müller, D. H. Reitze, R. Schnabel, B. Willke, Lasers and Optics: Looking Toward Third Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors, General Relativity and Gravitation 43:569–592 doi: 10.1007/s10714-010-1023-3 (2011).

[140] J. Abadie et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar, Phys. Rev. D 83, 042001 (2011).

[139] N. Lastzka, J. Steinlechner, S. Steinlechner, R. Schnabel, Measuring small absorptions by exploiting photothermal self-phase modulation, Appl. Opt. 49, 5391-8 (2010).

[138] B. Hage A. Samblowski, J. DiGuglielmo, J. Fiurášek, R. Schnabel,Iterative Entanglement Distillation: Approaching full Elimination of Decoherence,Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 230502 (2010).

[137] R. Schnabel et al., Building blocks for future detectors: Silicon test masses and 1550 nm laser light, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 228, 012029 (2010).

[136] K. Dahl et al., Towards a Suspension Platform Interferometer for the AEI 10 m Prototype Interferometer, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 228, 012027 (2010).

[135] F. Kawazoe et al., Designs of the frequency reference cavity for the AEI 10 m Prototype interferometer, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 228, 012028 (2010).

[134] J. Abadie et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run Source: nuclear instruments & methods in physics research Sec. A 624, 223-240 (2010).

[133] J. Abadie et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence in LIGO and Virgo data from S5 and VSR1, Phys. Rev. D 82, 102001 (2010).

[132] J. Abadie et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star, Astrophys. Journal 722,1504-1513 (2010).

[131] J. Abadie et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors Source: Class. Quantum Grav. 27, 173001 (2010).

[130] J. Abadie et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run Source, Phys. Rev. D 81, 102001 (2010).

[129] B.P. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from LIGO Science Run 5 and Virgo Science Run 1, Astrophys. Journal 715, 1438-1452 (2010).

[128] J. Abadie et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration:Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short Gamma-Ray Bursts during LIGO's fifth and Virgo's first science run, Astrophys. Journal 715, 1453-1461 (2010).

[127] B.P. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration:Searches for gravitational Waves from known pulsars with science run 5 ligo data Source, Astrophys. Journal 713, 671-685 (2010).

[126] M. Punturo et al., The third generation of gravitational wave observatories and their science reach, Class. Quantum Grav. 084007 (2010).

[125] R. Schnabel, N. Mavalvala, D. E. McClelland, P. K. Lam, Quantum metrology for gravitational wave astronomy. Nat. Commun. 1:121 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1122 (2010).

[124] T. Eberle, S. Steinlechner, J. Bauchrowitz, V. Händchen, H. Vahlbruch, M.Mehmet, H. Müller-Ebhardt and R. Schnabel, Quantum enhancement of the zero-area Sagnac interferometer topology for gravitational wave detection, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 251102 (2010).

[123] Boris Hage, Aiko Samblowski, Roman Schnabel, Towards Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen quantum channel multiplexing, Phys. Rev. A 81, 062301 (2010), selected as a research highlight in Nature Photonics 4, 500 (2010).

[122] M. Mehmet, T. Eberle, S. Steinlechner, H. Vahlbruch, H. Müller-Ebhardt and R. Schnabel, Demonstration of a quantum-enhanced fibre Sagnac interferometer, Opt. Lett. 35, 1665 (2010).

[121] M. P. Edgar, B. W. Barr, J. Nelson, M. V. Plissi, K. A. Strain, O. Burmeister, M. Britzger, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, T. Clausnitzer, F. Brückner, E.-B. Kley, A. Tünnermann, Experimental demonstration of a suspended diffractively coupled optical cavity, Class. Quantum Grav. 27, 084029 (2010).

[120] M. Punturo et al., The third generation of gravitational wave observatories and their science reach, Class. Quantum Grav. 27, 084007 (2010).

[119] S. Goßler et al., The AEI 10 m prototype interferometer, Class. Quantum Grav. 27, 084023 (2010).

[118] O. Burmeister, M. Britzger, A. Thüring, D. Friedrich, F. Brückner, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, All-reflective coupling of two optical cavities with 3-port diffraction gratings, Optics Express 18, 9119 (2010).

[117] F. Brückner, D. Friedrich, T. Clausnitzer, M. Britzger, O. Burmeister, K. Danzmann, E.-B. Kley, A. Tünnermann, R. Schnabel, Realization of a monolithic high-reflectivity cavity mirror from a single silicon crystal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 163903 (2010).

[116] Henning Vahlbruch, Alexander Khalaidovski, Nico Lastzka, Christian Gräf, Karsten Danzmann, Roman Schnabel, The GEO600 squeezed light source, Class. Quantum Grav. 27, 084027 (2010), selected as one of the journal’s Highlights in 2009 and 2010.

[115] K. Yamamoto, D. Friedrich, T. Westphal, S. Goßler, K. Danzmann, Kentaro Somiya, Stefan L. Danilishin, R. Schnabel, Quantum noise of a Michelson-Sagnac interferometer with translucent mechanical oscillator, Phys. Rev. A 81, 033849 (2010).

[114] M.Mehmet, H. Vahlbruch, N. Lastzka, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, Observation of squeezed states with strong photon-number oscillations, Phys. Rev. A 81, 013814 (2010).

[113] The LIGO Scientific Collaboration & The Virgo Collaboration, An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin, Nature 460, 990 (2009).

[112] T. Kiesel, W. Vogel, B. Hage, J. DiGuglielmo, A. Samblowski, R, Schnabel, Experimental test of nonclassicality criteria for phase-diffused squeezed states, Phys. Rev. A 79, 022122 (2009).

[111] B. Abbott et al., Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state, New J. Phys. 11, 073032 (2009).

[110] F. Brückner, D. Friedrich, M. Britzger, T. Clausnitzer, O. Burmeister, E.-B. Kley, K. Danzmann, A. Tünnermann, R. Schnabel, Encapsulated subwavelength grating as a quasi-monolithic resonant reflector, Opt. Express 17, 24334 (2009).

[109] Alexander Khalaidovski, André Thüring, Henning Rehbein, Nico Lastzka, Benno Willke, Karsten Danzmann, R. Schnabel, Strong reduction of laser power noise by means of a Kerr nonlinear cavity, Phys. Rev. A 80, 053801 (2009).

[108] M. P. Edgar, B. W. Barr, J. Nelson, M. V. Plissi, K. A. Strain, O. Burmeister, M. Britzger, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, T. Clausnitzer, F. Brückner, E.-B. Kley, A. Tünnermann, Experimental demonstration of a suspended diffractively coupled optical cavity, Opt. Lett. 34, 3184 (2009).

[107] J. Hallam, S. Chelkowski, A. Freise, S. Hild, B. Barr, K. A. Strain, O. Burmeister, R. Schnabel, Coupling of lateral grating displacement to the output ports of a diffractive Fabry–Perot cavity, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 11, 085502 (2009).

[106] Frank Brückner, Daniel Friedrich, Tina Clausnitzer, Oliver Burmeister, Michael Britzger, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Karsten Danzmann, reas Tünnermann, Roman Schnabel, Demonstration of a cavity coupler based on a resonant waveguide grating, Optics Express 17, 163 (2009).

[105] M. Mehmet, S. Steinlechner, T. Eberle, H. Vahlbruch, A. Thüring, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, Observation of cw squeezed light at 1550 nm, Opt. Lett. 34, 1060 (2009).

[104] André Thüring, Christian Gräf, Henning Vahlbruch, Moritz Mehmet, Karsten Danzmann, Roman Schnabel, Broadband squeezing of quantum noise in a Michelson interferometer with Twin-Signal-Recycling, Opt. Lett. 34, 824 (2009).

[103] J. DiGuglielmo, C. Messenger, J. Fiurášek, B. Hage, A. Samblowski, T. Schmidt, R. Schnabel, Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation of quantum states,Phys. Rev. A 79, 032114 (2009).

[102] B.P. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run Source, Phys. Rev. D 80, 102001 (2009).

[101] B.P. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run, Phys. Rev. D 80, 102002 (2009).

[100] B.P. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings, Phys. Rev. D 80, 062002 (2009).

[99] B.P. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data, Phys. Rev. D 80, 042003 (2009).

[98] B.P. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO's fifth science run, Phys. Rev. D 80, 047101 (2009).

[97] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Stacked search for gravitational waves from the 2006 sgr 1900+14 storm, Astrophysical Journal Lett. 701, L68-L74 (2009).

[96] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO's S5 data, Phys. Rev. D 79, 122001 (2009).

[95] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, Reports On Progress In Physics 72, 076901 (2009).

[94] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-Science-Run Data, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111102 (2009).

[93] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data, Phys. Rev. D 79, 022001 (2009).

[92] Henning Rehbein, Helge Müller-Ebhardt, Kentaro Somiya, Stefan L. Danilishin, Roman Schnabel, Karsten Danzmann, Yanbei Chen, Double optical spring enhancement for gravitational-wave detectors, Phys. Rev. D 78, 062003 (2008).

[91] Nicolai B. Grosse, Syed Assad, Moritz Mehmet, Roman Schnabel, Thomas Symul, Ping Koy Lam, Observation of Entanglement between Two Light Beams Spanning an Octave in Optical Frequency, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 243601 (2008).

[90] Boris Hage, Aiko Samblowski, James DiGuglielmo, Alexander Franzen, Jaromir Fiurášek, Roman Schnabel, Preparation of distilled and purified continuous variable entangled states, Nature Physics 4, 915 (2008).

[89] F. Brückner, T. Clausnitzer, O. Burmeister, D. Friedrich, E.-B. Kley, K. Danzmann, A. Tünnermann, R. Schnabel: Monolithic dielectric surfaces as new low-loss light-matter interfaces, Opt. Lett. 33, 264 (2008).

[88] H. Vahlbruch, M. Mehmet, N. Lastzka, B. Hage, S. Chelkowski, A. Franzen, S. Gossler, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel: Observation of squeezed light with 10dB quantum noise reduction, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 033602 (2008).

[87] H. Müller-Ebhardt, H. Rehbein, R. Schnabel, K. Danzmann, Y. Chen: Entanglement of macroscopic test masses and the standard quantum limit in laser interferometry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 013601 (2008).

[86] D. Friedrich, O. Burmeister, A. Bunkowski, T. Clausnitzer, S. Fahr, E.-B. Kley, A. Tünnermann, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel: Diffractive beam splitter characterization via a power-recycled interferometer, Optics Letters 33, 101 (2008).

[85] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: First joint search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO and GEO 600 data, Class. Quantum Grav. 25, 245008 (2008).

[84] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects Class. Quantum Grav. 25, 114051 (2008).

[83] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 211102 (2008).

[82] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals, Phys. Rev. D 78, 042002 (2008).

[81] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Crab pulsar , Astrophys. Journal Lett. 683, L45-L49 (2008). Erratum: APJ 706, L203-L204 (2009).

[80] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Implications for the origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO observations, Astrophys. Journal 681, 1419-1430 (2008).

[79] L. Baggio et al.: A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO , Class. Quantum Grav. 25, 095004 (2008).

[78] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals in S3 and S4 LIGO data, Phys. Rev. D 77, 062002 (2008).

[77] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational waves associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts using data from the second, third, fourth LIGO runs, Phys. Rev. D 77, 062004 (2008).

[76] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data, Phys. Rev. D 77, 022001 (2008).

[75] Petr Marek, Jaromi­r Fiurášek, Boris Hage, Alexander Franzen, James DiGugliemo, Roman Schnabel: Multiple-copy distillation and purification of phase-diffused squeezed states, Phys. Rev. A 76, 053820 (2007).

[74] A. Freise, A. Bunkowski, R. Schnabel: Phase and alignment noise in grating interferometers, New J. Phys. 9, 433 (2007).

[73] H. Vahlbruch, S. Chelkowski, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel: Quantum engineering of squeezed states for quantum communication and metrology, New J. Phys. 9, 371 (2007).

[72] H. Rehbein, H. Müller-Ebhardt, K. Somiya, C. Li, R. Schnabel, K. Danzmann, Y. Chen: Local readout enhancement for detuned signal-recycling interferometers, Phys. Rev. D 76, 062002 (2007).

[71] R. Nawrodt, A. Zimmer, T. Koettig, T. Clausnitzer, A. Bunkowski, E.-B. Kley, R. Schnabel, K. Danzmann, W. Vodel, A. Tünnermann, P. Seidel: Mechanical Q-factor measurements on a test mass with a structured surface, New J. Phys. 9, 225 (2007).

[70] B. Hage, A. Franzen, J. DiGuglielmo, P. Marek, J. Fiurášek, R. Schnabel: On the distillation and purification of phase-diffused squeezed states, New J. Phys. 9, 227 (2007).

[69] J. DiGuglielmo, B. Hage, A. Franzen, J. Fiurášek, R. Schnabel: Experimental characterization of Gaussian quantum communication channels, Phys. Rev. A 76, 012323 (2007).

[68] N. Lastzka and R. Schnabel: The Gouy phase shift in nonlinear interactions of waves, Optics Express 15, 7211 (2007).

[67] Jaromír Fiurášek, Petr Marek, Radim Filip, Roman Schnabel: Experimentally feasible purification of continuous-variable entanglement, Phys. Rev. A 75, 050302(R) (2007).

[66] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data from the fourth science run, Class. Quantum Grav. 24, 5343 (2007).

[65] B Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves, Phys. Rev. D 76, 082003 (2007).

[64] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1: Results from the second LIGO science run, Phys. Rev. D 76, 082001 (2007).

[63] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational wave radiation associated with the pulsating tail of the SGR 1806-20 hyperflare of 27 December 2004 using LIGO,Phys. Rev. D 76, 062003 (2007).

[62] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars, Phys. Rev. D 76, 042001 (2007).

[61] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration and ALLEGRO Collaboration: Publisher’s Note: First cross-correlation analysis of interferometric and resonant-bar gravitational-wave data for stochastic backgrounds [Phys. Rev. D 76, 022001 (2007)], Phys. Rev. D 76, 029905 (2007).

[60] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration and ALLEGRO Collaboration: First cross-correlation analysis of interferometric and resonant-bar gravitational-wave data for stochastic backgrounds, Phys. Rev. D 76, 022001 (2007).

[59] S. Chelkowski, H. Vahlbruch, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel: Coherent control of broadband vacuum squeezing, Phys. Rev. A 75, 043814 (2007).

[58] A. Thüring, R. Schnabel, H. Lück, K. Danzmann: Detuned Twin-Signal-Recycling for ultra-high precision interferometers, Optics Letters 32, 985 (2007).

[57] B. Abbott et al., Searching for a stochastic background of gravitational waves with the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory, Astrophys. Journal 659, 918-930 (2007).

[56] A. Bunkowski, O. Burmeister, D. Friedrich, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel: High reflectivity grating waveguide coatings for 1064 nm, Class. Quantum Grav. 23, 7297 (2006).

[55] A. Franzen, B. Hage, J. DiGuglielmo, Jaromír Fiurášek, R. Schnabel: Experimental demonstration of continuous variable purification of squeezed states, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150505 (2006).

[54] H. Vahlbruch, S. Chelkowski, B. Hage, A. Franzen, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, Coherent control of vacuum squeezing in the gravitational-wave detection band, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 011101 (2006).

[53] A. Bunkowski, O. Burmeister, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, T. Clausnitzer, E.-B. Kley, Tünnermann: Demonstration of 3-port grating phase relations,
Optics Letters 31, 2384 (2006).

[52] S. Nietzsche, R. Nawrodt, A. Zimmer, R. Schnabel, W. Vodel, P. Seidel: Cryogenic Q-factor measurement of optical substrates for optimization of gravitational wave detectors, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 19, S293 (2006).

[51] A. Bunkowski, O. Burmeister, T. Clausnitzer, E.-B. Kley, A. Tünnermann, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel: Optical Characterization of ultra-high efficiency gratings, Applied Optics 45, 5795 (2006).

[50] R. Schnabel, A. Bunkowski, O. Burmeister, K. Danzmann: Three-port beam splitters/combiners for interferometer applications, Optics Letters, 31, 658 (2006).

[49] B Willke et al.: The GEO-HF project, Class. Quantum Grav. 23, S207 (2006).

[48] H Lück et al.: Status of the GEO600 detector, Class. Quantum Grav. 23, S71 (2006).

[47] A. Bunkowski, O. Burmeister, T. Clausnitzer, E.-B. Kley, A. Tünnermann, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel: Diffractive Optics for Gravitational Wave Detectors, J. Phys: Conf. Ser. 32, 333 (2006).

[46] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, TAMA Collaboration: Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries, Phys. Rev. D 73, 102002 (2006).

[45] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data, Phys. Rev. D 73, 062001 (2006).

[44] H. Vahlbruch, S. Chelkowski, B. Hage, A. Franzen, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, Squeezed-field injection for gravitational wave interferometers, Class. Quantum Grav. 23, S251-S257 (2006).

[43] H. Vahlbruch, S. Chelkowski, B. Hage, A. Franzen, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, Demonstration of a squeezed light enhanced power- and signal-recycled Michelson interferometer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 211102 (2005).

[42] H. Rehbein, J. Harms, R. Schnabel, K. Danzmann, Optical transfer functions of Kerr nonlinear cavities and interferometers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 193001 (2005).

[41] T. Clausnitzer, E.-B. Kley, A. Tünnermann, A. Bunkowski, O. Burmeister, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, A. Duparré, S. Gliech, Ultra low-loss low-efficiency diffraction gratings, Opt. Exp. 13, 4370 (2005).

[40] A. Bunkowski, O. Burmeister, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, Input–output relations for a three-port grating coupled Fabry–Perot cavity, Optics Letters 30, 1183 (2005).

[39] S. Chelkowski, H. Vahlbruch, B. Hage, A. Franzen, N. Lastzka, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, Experimental characterization of frequency-dependent squeezed light, Phys. Rev. A 71, 013806 (2005).

[38] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, TAMA Collaboration: Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts, Phys. Rev. D 72, 122004 (2005).

[37] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform, Phys. Rev. D 72, 102004 (2005).

[36] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescences in the galactic halo, Phys. Rev. D 72, 082002 (2005).

[35] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational waves from galactic and extra-galactic binary neutron stars, Phys. Rev. D 72, 082001 (2005).

[34] B. Abbott et al., The LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Upper limits on gravitational wave bursts in LIGO’s second science run, Phys. Rev. D 72, 062001 (2005).

[33] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration: Search for gravitational waves associated with the gamma ray burst GRB030329 using the LIGO detectors, Phys. Rev. D 72, 042002 (2005).

[32] B. Abbott et al., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Limits on Gravitational-Wave Emission from Selected Pulsars Using LIGO Data, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 181103 (2005).

[31] H Grote, et al.: The status of GEO 600, Class. Quantum Grav. 22, S193 (2005).

[30] A. Bunkowski, O. Burmeister, P. Beyersdorf, K. Danzmann, R. Schnabel, T. Clausnitzer, E.-B. Kley, Tünnermann: Low-loss grating for coupling to a high-finesse cavity, Optics Letters 29, 2342 (2004).

[29] Jan Harms, Roman Schnabel, Karsten Danzmann: Finite mass beam splitter in high power interferometers, Phys. Rev. D 70, 102001 (2004).

[28] R. Schnabel, H. Vahlbruch, A. Franzen, S. Chelkowski, N. Grosse, H.-A. Bachor, W. P. Bowen, P. K. Lam, K. Danzmann: Squeezed light at sideband frequencies below 100 kHz from a single OPA,
Optics Communications 240, 185 (2004).

[27] R. Schnabel, J. Harms, K.A. Strain, K. Danzmann: Squeezed light for the interferometric detection of high frequency gravitational waves, Class. Quantum Grav. 21, S1045 (2004).

[26] J. R. Smith et al.: Commissioning, characterization and operation of the dual-recycled GEO 600, Class. Quantum Grav. 21, S1737 (2004).

[25] B. Willke et al.: Status of GEO 600, Class. Quantum Grav. 21, S417 (2004).

[24] Warwick P. Bowen, Roman Schnabel, Ping Koy Lam, Timothy C. Ralph: Experimental characterization of continuous-variable entanglement, Phys. Rev. A 69, 012304 (2004).

[23] R. Schnabel, M. Schultz-Johanning, M. Kock: Fe II lifetimes and transition probabilities, Astronomy and Astrophysics 414, 1169 (2004).

[22] Jan Harms, Yanbei Chen, Simon Chelkowski, Alexander Franzen, Henning Vahlbruch, Karsten Danzmann, Roman Schnabel: Squeezed-input, optical-spring, signal-recycled gravitational-wave detectors, Phys. Rev. D 68, 042001 (2003).

[21] A. M. Sintes, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert et al.: Detector characterization in GEO 600, Class. Quantum Grav. 20, S731 (2003).

[20] M. Hewitson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert et al.: A report on the status of the GEO 600 gravitational wave detector, Class. Quantum Grav. 20, S581 (2003).

[19] Warwick P. Bowen, Nicolas Treps, Roman Schnabel, Timothy C. Ralph, Ping Koy Lam: Continuous variable polarization entanglement, experiment and analysis, J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 5, 467 (2003).

[18] Warwick Bowen, Nicolas Treps, Ben Buchler, Roman Schnabel, Thomas Symul, Tim Ralph, Ping Koy Lam: Unity gain and non-unity gain quantum teleportation, IEEE J SEL TOP QUANT, 9 (6) 1519 (2003).

[17] W. P. Bowen, R. Schnabel, P. K. Lam, T. C. Ralph: An experimental investigation of criteria for continuous variable entanglement, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 043601 (2003).

[16] Warwick P. Bowen, Nicolas Treps, Ben C. Buchler, Roman Schnabel, Timothy C. Ralph, Hans -A. Bachor, Thomas Symul, Ping Koy Lam: Experimental investigation of continuous variable quantum teleportation, Phys. Rev. A 67, 032302 (2003).

[15] R. Schnabel, W. P. Bowen, N. Treps, H.-A. Bachor, T. C. Ralph, P. K. Lam: Stokes-operator-squeezed continuous-variable polarization states, Phys. Rev. A 67, 012316 (2003).

[14] R. Schnabel, W. P. Bowen, N. Treps, B. Buchler, T. C. Ralph, P. K. Lam, H.-A. Bachor: Optical experiments beyond the quantum limit: squeezing, entanglement and teleportation, Optics and Spectroskopy 94, 711 (2003).

[13] W. P. Bowen, N. Treps, R. Schnabel, P. K. Lam: Experimental demonstration of continuous variable polarization entanglement, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 253601 (2002).

[12] W. P. Bowen, R. Schnabel, N. Treps, H.-A. Bachor, P. K. Lam: Recovery of continuous wave squeezing at low frequencies, J. Opt. B 4, 421 (2002).

[11] W. P. Bowen, R. Schnabel, H.-A. Bachor, P. K. Lam: Polarization squeezing of continuous variable Stokes parameters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093601 (2002).

[10] M. Schultz-Johanning, R. Kling, R. Schnabel, M. Kock, Z. Li, H. Lundberg, S. Johansson: Lifetimes, branching fractions, oscillator strengths of doubly ionized Tungsten, Physica Scripta 63, 367 (2001).

[9] R. Kling, R. Schnabel, U. Griesmann: Accurate lifetimes and absolute transition rates for ultraviolet transitions in Mn II, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 134, 173 (2001).

[8] R. Schnabel and M. Kock: Time-resolved nonlinear laser-induced fluorescence technique for a combined lifetime and branching-fraction measurement, Phys. Rev. A 63, 012519 (2000).

[7] R. Schnabel and M. Kock: f-value measurement of the Be I resonance line using a nonlinear time-resolved laser-induced-fluorescence technique, Phys. Rev. A 61, 062506 (2000).

[6] R. Schnabel, M. Kock, H. Holweger: Selected Fe II lifetimes and f-values suitable for a solar abundance study, Astronomy and Astrophysics 342, 610 (1999).

[5] M. Schultz-Johanning, R. Schnabel, M. Kock: A Linear Paul Trap for Radiative Lifetime Measurements on Ions, The European Physical Journal D 5, 341 (1999).

[4] R. Schnabel, M. Schultz-Johanning, M. Kock: Radiative lifetimes of excited W II levels, The European Physical Journal D 4, 267 (1998).

[3] M. van Lessen, R. Schnabel, M. Kock: Population densities of Fe I and Fe II levels in an atomic beam from partially saturated LIF signals, Journal of Physics B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 31, 1931 (1998).

[2] R. Schnabel and M. Kock: Radiative lifetimes of excited W I levels, Zeitschrift für Physik D 41, 31 (1997).

[1] R. Schnabel, A. Bard, M. Kock: On the determination of radiative lifetimes of excited Mn I and Mn II levels, Zeitschrift für Physik D 34, 223 (1995).


Third Party Projects

R. Schnabel:
Großgerät, Heliumkryostat, 2010, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft und Land Niedersachsen.

R. Schnabel, A. Tünnermann (Jena):
SFB TR7-Project C5: “High-reflection waveguide coatings for gravitational wave detector test masses”, 2011-2014, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

R. Schnabel, K. Danzmann:
SFB TR7-Project C8: “ Nonclassical readout for gravitational wave detectors”,
2011-2014, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

R. Nawrodt (Jena), R. Schnabel:
SFB TR7-Project C9: “ Optical Properties of Silicon-Based Test Masses”,
2011-2014, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

R. Schnabel, R. Werner:
Q-ESSENCE, FP7, FET-Integrating Project, 2007-2010, EU.

R. Schnabel, A. Tünnermann (Jena):
SFB TR7-Project C5: “High-reflection waveguide coatings for gravitational wave detector test masses”, 2007-2010, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

R. Schnabel, K. Danzmann:
SFB 407-Project B12: “Quantum Non-Demolition Interferometry”,
2003-2009, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

R. Schnabel:
Project SCHN 757/2-1: “Experimental Purification of Squeezed and Entangled States”, 2006-2009, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

R. Schnabel, B. Willke, K. Danzmann:
SFB 407-Project B15: “Mode Control of Nonclassical Fields”,
2006-2009, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

R. Schnabel, H. Lück, K. Danzmann:
SFB 407-Project B16: “Nonclassical Kerr Interferometry”,
2006-2009, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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