Authors of LASCAD

Dr. Konrad Altmann is president of LAS-CAD GmbH, and founded this company in 1993 with the vision to integrate different simulation tools, necessary for the analysis of the multiphysics interaction in diode pumped solid state lasers (DPSSL), into the program LASCAD providing the laser engineer with the ability of a quantitative understanding of the complicated effects in those laser systems. K. Altmann has over 25 years of progressively responsible experience in computational physics especially in the field of optics. He wrote more than 25 scientific publications in molecular physics, propagation engineering, and laser technology, and applied for more than 25 patents, of which 11 have been granted. In 1977 – 91 he developed a simulation program for the gasdynamic high energy laser project of Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm AG, Munich. Also he wrote programs for the simulation of laser beam propagation in the atmosphere. Please find a biographical profile of K.Altmann in Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2000 - 2001, or in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2001 - 2002.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Pflaum presently works at the University Erlangen, Germany, Department of Computer Science, Systems Simulation. He is engaged in projects concerning transport equation, parallelization, and multilevel methods. Dr. Pflaum has presented 27 papers and other contributions to scientific conferences, especially on numerical solution of partial differential equations. He wrote a habilitation thesis on "Fast and Robust Multilevel Algorithms". Dr. Pflaum contributed the FEA code to LASCAD which is based on a multilevel algorithm and semi-unstructured grids.

Prof. Dr. Raphael Yahel has many years of extensive experience in computational physics, including hydrodynamics, radiation transport, and electromagnetic waves propagation, he contributed essential parts to the wave optics code. R. Yahel wrote more than 15 scientific publications on propagation engineering.

Georg Altmann is a young very qualified software engineer, especially experienced in application development, system programming and UNIX^®/Linux systems. He developed valuable contributions to LASCAD in order to control the interaction of different program codes.