Rainer Engelbrecht

Rainer Engelbrecht

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil.

Responsibilities
  • Professor of Technical Optics and Sensing
  • Board of Directors, research institute Polymer Optical Fiber Application Center (POF-AC)
  • Director Laboratory for Optical Communications and Sensing
  • Vice director, Technical Optics Laboratory
  • Board of Directors, Microsystems and clean room laboratory
  • Board of Directors Bayern Photonics e.V.
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC), International Optical Fiber Sensing Conference (OFS)
Curriculum vitae
Since 10/2016: Professor for Technical Optics and Sensing, TH Nürnberg
  • Board of Directors, Research institute Polymer Optical Fiber Application Center (POF-AC)
  • Department of Electronics Mechatronics and IT (efi)
  • Teaching and research on optical fibers, sensors, photonics and optics
 
2001-2016: Lab director, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
  • Venia legendi (Dr.-Ing. habil. 2015), "microwave technology"
  • Scientific director Fiber Optical Laboratory, Chair of Microwave Technology and Photonics (LHFT)
  • Research and industrial cooperations on fiber optics, fiber lasers and optical sensors
 
1995-2001: Research assistent, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
  • Ph.D. thesis suma cum laudae on gas anaysis by diode laser spectroscopy for CO2 lasers
 
1989-1995: Student of Electrical Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
  • Specialization in RF and microwave technology, quantum electronics and photonics.
Awards
  • 10/2002: Staedtler Promotionspreis for the best Ph.D. thesis at the Faculty of Engineering Sciences
    of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2001.
  • 11/2016: VDE ITG-Preis for outstanding contributions in the field of information technology, for the book publication „Nichtlineare Faseroptik“, Springer‐Vieweg Verlag 2014.
Memberships
  • VDE, Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG)
  • IEEE, Photonics Society
  • DGBMT - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik im VDE
  • International Cooperative on Plastic Optical Fibers (ICPOF)
Teaching areas

Technical optics and sensing

Research
  • Fiber optical components and systems
  • Optical fiber sensors
  • Optical metrolog
  • Lightwave test and measurement
  • Non-linear fiber optics
  • Photonics and lasers
  • Medical applications of optics and lasers
  • Optical quantum technologies
Courses
  • Technical optics + laboratory
  • Optical test and measurement + laboratoy
  • Optical sensors
  • Fiber optics and optical waveguides
  • Project work
  • Final thesis

 Course materials and E-Learning services

Publications

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OrcID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7243-3647
Scopus Author ID: 24544687800

Books

R. Engelbrecht. Nichtlineare Faseroptik: Grundlagen und Anwendungsbeispiele.
Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Vieweg, 2014.
Online by Springer-Link: http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783642409677
 
R. Engelbrecht. Gasanalyse im CO2-Laser mittels Diodenlaser-Spektrometrie.
München: Didacta Verlag, 2002.
Ph.D. thesis, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.