Biography

Daniel Plabst received his M.Sc. degree from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2018.

During his Master's program, he worked on signal processing for energy-efficient wireless communication systems at the Associate Professorship of Signal Processing (TUM), while also staying with the Wireless Networking and Communications Group at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Since 2019, he has been a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Communications Engineering (TUM), focusing on Direct Detection for Short-Reach Optical Links. From 2019 to 2022, he was supervised by Prof. Norbert Hanik, and since 2023, by Prof. Gerhard Kramer.

He carried out short-term research stays at the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 2021 and 2023, supported by a DAAD scholarship for doctoral researchers. In 2024, he was nominated for the Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) in Athens.

Research Interests

Direct-Detection (DD) is a cost-effective approach for short-reach fiber-optic communication. A DD receiver uses a single photodiode to measure the intensity of the impinging signal. This suggests that DD is not compatible with phase modulation. However, using oversampling, the phase can be recovered by exploiting inter-symbol interference (ISI).

We investigate DD for short-reach communication in the context of information theory and estimation strategies.

Teaching

Optical Communication Systems (ST2019, WT2020)

Digital Signal Processing for Optical Communication Systems (ST2020, ST2021)

Physical Layer Methods (ST2023)

Basic Laboratory Course on Telecommunications (ST2022, WT2022, ST2023, WT2023, ST2024)

Communications Laboratory (WT2022, WT2023)

Nachrichtentechnik 2 (WT2023, WT2024)

Wireless Communications Lab (ST2024, ST2025)