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University of Florida Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

from Germany

Dr.  

Thomas S. Schwarze

Research Ast. Scientist (Faculty)

Office: NEB 467

Email: t.schwarze@ufl.edu

Office: NEB 467

Email: t.schwarze@ufl.edu

Research Interests

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for laser metrology and data communication; Advanced DSP platforms using FPGAs/SoCs

Selected Publications

T. S. Schwarze, G. Fernández Barranco, D. Penkert, M. Kaufer, O. Gerberding, and G. Heinzel,
“Picometer-stable hexagonal optical bench to verify lisa phase extraction linearity and precision,”
Physical Review Letters, vol. 122, p. 081 104, 8 Feb. 2019.

T. S. Schwarze, O. Gerberding, F. Guzmán Cervantes, G. Heinzel, and K. Danzmann, “Advanced
phasemeter for deep phase modulation interferometry,”
Optics Express, vol. 22, no. 15, pp. 18 214–18 223, Jul. 2014.

T. S. Schwarze, G. F. Barranco, D. Penkert, O. Gerberding, G. Heinzel, and K. Danzmann, “Optical
testbed for the LISA phasemeter,”
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 716, p. 012 004, May 2016.

L. Wissel, A. Wittchen, T. S. Schwarze, M. Hewitson, G. Heinzel, and H. Halloin, “Relative-intensity-
noise coupling in heterodyne interferometers,”
Physical Review Applied, vol. 17, p. 024 025, 2 Feb. 2022.

K. Yamamoto, C. Vorndamme, O. Hartwig, M. Staab, T. S. Schwarze, and G. Heinzel, “Experimental
verification of intersatellite clock synchronization at lisa performance levels,”
Physical Review D, vol. 105, p. 042 009, 4 Feb. 2022.

Biography

Thomas Schwarze received his Master’s degree in physics in 2013 from the Leibniz University Hannover. In the same year, he worked as an FPGA engineer in Denmark and as a research visitor at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

He then conducted his Ph.D. research at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in collaboration with the Leibniz University Hannover, focusing on the development of a laser-optical metrology system to characterize technology for the space-borne Gravitational Wave Observatory LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), and receiving his Ph.D. in 2018. Afterwards, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) as Post-Doctoral Researcher and was involved in the development of a Phasemeter Engineering Model for LISA as well as Phasemeters for other applications. He focused on the implementation of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) using FPGAs and SoCs.

At UF, his main area of research is the development of digital processors for the CLICK mission, the GRATTIS mission, and the LISA Charge Management Device.