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On April 1, 2005 both the existing Departments of Physics and Mathematics became the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.
Within that reestablishment the existing Institute for Atom and Molecule Physics was renamed as Institute for Gravitational Physics.
The Institute for Atom and Molecule Physics (AMP) was established in 1979 by the Department
of Physics because of the new NHG. It included three sections: the Section of Spectroscopy,
the Section of Plasmaphysics and the Section of Atomic Processes.
The Section of Spectrocospy was a replacement of the former Institute for Experimental Physics A.
Under the direction of Prof. Dr. A. Steudel the main research was focused on the spectroscopies
of free atoms and molecules. Since April 1, 1993 the director of the section is Prof. Dr. K. Danzmann.
He was appointed with the goal to make Hannover to a centre of experimental gravitational physics.
From 1997 to 2001 Prof. Danzmann was also the director of the satellite station of the Max Planck Institute
for Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Hannover. Since January 1, 2002 the AMP is a division of the new founded Centre for
Gravitational Physics. The other part of the centre consist of the also new founded Max Planck Institute for
Gravitational Physics, Hannover (Albert Einstein Institute [AEI]). The AEI Hannover
works on experimental basis, the theoretical work is made in Potsdam (AEI Potsdam).
Our research work is concerned with problems of quantum physics (coherent effects, white-light resonator,
squeezed light, gain without inversion, Heisenberg limit),
control electronic (high-stability laser systems, active damping of oscillations, adaptive optics)
and gravitational physics (further development of the gravitational wave detector,
calculation of the detector sensitivity, analysis of the measured data).
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