Optical Fiber Communication Systems Passive Optical Networks
Biography
Werner Rosenkranz studied Electrical Engineering at University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. There he received the Ph.D. and the Habilitation at the Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik (Prof. H.-W. Schüßler) in 1980 and 1989 respectively. He worked on Phase-locked Loops, digital FM-systems, and Digital Signal Processing. In 1989 he joined Philips Kommunikations Industrie / Lucent Technologies in Nürnberg, where he was responsible for a transmission group in the basic development department, working on the development of wireless and optical communication transceivers. As a full professor for the Chair of Communications at the University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany since 1997, he is leading a research group with an internationally well established reputation in the field of fiber optic transmission. As a project leader he is/was responsible for numerous research and development projects with co-operation partners from industry, with German Science Foundation, with European Commission, and government funded projects. Werner Rosenkranz is a member of the IEEE, OSA and VDE. He serves in the ITG-VDE committee (Fachausschuss) “Optical Communications”, where a small group of nation-wide leading experts is involved. He has authored and co-authored over 180 book chapters, journal and conference papers. He holds currently 14 patents. He serves as a referee for several IEEE journals and he is/was a member of the Technical Program Committee in various international conferences such as the OFC and the ECOC. He is currently the General Chair for the 2011 SPPCom (Signal Processing in Photonic Communications) organized within the OSA Optics & Photonics Congress.
