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Dr.rer.nat. Dr.-Ing. Tristan Kremp

kremp@igpm.rwth-aachen.de

Curriculum Vitae

  • Since December 2008 with OFS Laboratories
  • March 2002 - December 2008: IGPM
    • Research Assistant
    • Member of German Research Society (DFG) Graduate Programme: Hierarchie und Symmetrie in mathematischen Modellen
    • PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) thesis in mathematics: Quasi-spectral finite difference methods: Convergence analysis and application to nonlinear optical pulse propagation
  • April 1998 - February 2002: Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
    • Research Assistant
    • Member of German Research Society (DFG) Graduate Programme Numerical field computation
    • PhD (Dr.-Ing.) thesis in electrical engineering: Split-step wavelet collocation methods for linear and nonlinear optical wave propagation
  • October 1995 - March 1998: Advanced study period (Hauptstudium) in electrical engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
    • Major: Theoretical electrical engineering, Institute of Systems Optimization
    • Master (Dipl.-Ing.) thesis: Time domain analysis of stratified conductive shields with obliquely incident waves and arbitrary wave form functions
  • October 1993 - September 1995: Basic study period (Grundstudium) in electrical engineering, Saarland University, Germany
  • Awards:
    • 2003 Information Technology Society (ITG) Thesis Award
    • 1998 Siemens Studienzeitpreis Karlsruhe, for fastest completion of course studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    • 1998 SEW Eurodrive Foundation Studies Award, for outstanding diploma thesis

Research Interests

  • Efficient simulation of nonlinear coupled mode equations and application to fiber lasers and continuum generation
  • Theory and applications of fiber Bragg gratings
  • Efficient wavelet and high-order methods in optical communications
  • Theory and applications of quasi-spectral finite differences
  • Modeling of pulse propagation in nonlinear optical materials
  • Chebyshev systems
  • Split-step methods for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and paraxial wave equation
  • Simulation and modulation techniques for optical wavelength division multiplexing systems
  • Electromagnetic field theory
  • Wavelet Petrov-Galerkin and pole-condition methods for transparent boundary conditions for scattering problems
  • Modeling and simulation of thermal waveguiding in solid state lasers
  • Analytical time domain solutions and efficient numerical models for the telegraph equation in stratified shielding geometries

Publications