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About



The Center for Lasers and Photonics (CELP) is an interdisciplinary center of excellence that combines cutting-edge technology from engineering and theoretical advances in science to create new horizons in the field of photonics science and engineering. The faculty in CELP belong to six different parent departments (EE, ME, AE, PHY, CY, and CE) and pursue research in the fields of nanobiophotonics, ultrafast optics, quantum optics and related fields. The Center has research infrastructure worth several crores funded by agencies such as DST, DRDO, CSIR, MHRD etc.

Three PG programmes offered at CELP: PhD , M.Tech and M.S(Research) in Photonics Science and Engineering Programme (PSEP). The aim of PSEP is to train engineers/scientists from diverse background in interdisciplinary activities in photonics and related areas. For details, please visit our admission webpage.

Some of the projects that are currently pursued by CELP students are: Vein imaging, cancerous cell detection, LiDar systems, semiconductor lasers, chaos in fibers, quantum cryptography, photonic crystals, fibre lasers, and particle imaging.

The department coordinates with institute in placement activities for M.Tech and PhD students. Our alumni are working in prestigious organizations such as DRDO, BEL, MathWorks etc. Many of our alumni have chosen to pursue PhD in reputed international and national universities.

Head of the department



Prof. H Wanare

Head, Centre for Lasers and Photonics

Phone:0512-2597885

Email:hwanare[at]iitk.ac.in

Announcements


        • Cutoffs for M.tech. admission - GATE Score (for all disciplines) : 660(GN), 594 (EWS, OBC-NCL), 396 (SC, ST). CSIR-UGC JRF (Phy)

        • Selected candidates  for PhD. programme 2020-2021 

News



    • A book on "Transport Phenomena in Microfluidic Systems" written by Dr. P. K. Panigrahi of Department of Mechanical Engineering and CELP has been published by Wiley.

Events


    • R.R. Dasari Distinguished Lecture Series-2018 (28 November 2018)(Click here for Details)
    • International Day of Light (16 May 2018)
    • Research Scholar Day (16 May 2018)
    • Mini-symposium on Photonics (23 March 2018)

 

Contact



Centre for Lasers and Photonics,

No. 215, Southern Laboratory,

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur - 208016

Uttar Pradesh, India

Phone: 0512-259-7341, 0512-259-7885

Admissions

PhD.


M.Tech


MS(Research)


DPGC Convenor


                

Dr. Saurabh Mani Tripathi

Tel: +91-512-2596871

Mail: smt[at]iitk.ac.in

 

 

Admission


  • Admission page of IITK
  • PG Manual

Course Work


  • Course Structure
  • Course Content
  • Electives

Research

Areas of Research


Projects


Journal Papers



Conference papers


Objectives

People

Faculty


Post-doc


postdoc

Students


  • PhD.
  • M.Tech
  • MS(Research)
  • Resources

Staff


Alumni


Facilities

Research Labs


  • Biophotonics Lab
  • Microfluidic & Sensors Lab
  • Ultrafast Laser Lab
  • Optoelectronics & Nanofabrication Lab
  • Optical Communication Lab
  • Optical Metrology and Imaging Lab
  • Photonics Lab

Femtosecond laser & Micromachining system


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Picosecond and nanosecond laser systems


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DC/RF Magnetron Sputtering system


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Supporting Facilities


Lecture Series

Ramachandra Rao Dasari Distinguished Lecture Series


Prof. Ramachandra Rao Dasari is currently the associate director of G.R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He was at IIT Kanpur for 16 years. In that regime, he built one of the largest Laser laboratories for university research in India in that time,training large number of Ph.D students in laser research and interactions with several R&D laboratories. As Physics panel member of UGC, he has initiated number of new initiatives for improvements in undergraduate education and organized workshops for training of teachers.

In order to give respect to his contributions towards IIT Kanpur and the whole world, CELP conducts lecture series every year by inviting prominent scientist in the field of photonics for the same.More details about the lecture series can be found in the link below: Prof. R. Dasari's Lecture Series

Ph.D Student Seminar Series


CELP organizes departmental postgraduate student seminar every week. Seminar is just like any other formal seminar which give students an opportunity to learn and present themselves.


Seminars by Ph.D students

M.Tech/M.S student Seminar Series



Seminars by M.Tech/M.S students

News & Events

Conference/Symposia



International Day of Light (16 May,2018)Mini-symposium on Photonics (23 Mar,2018) Symposium on Photonic crystals (21 Sept,2017)
IEEE Women in Photonics(5 Nov, 2016)
International Year of Light(10 Oct,2015)
QIP School on optics of gravitation waves detectors(22 sept,2014)
Ultrafast photonic processes and interactions Workshop(2014)

Research Scholar Day



Research Scholar Day 2018
Research Scholar Day 2017
Research Scholar Day 2016

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR
Student Chapter of the
OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Estd : 2011


  *Office-bearers of OSA student chapter of IITK for the year 2019-20:

President: Mr. Subhajit Chakraborty, CELP
Vice President: Ms. Deeksha Jachpure, CELP
Secretary: Mrs. Arpita Haldar, CELP
Treasurer: Mr. Aritra Paul, CELP


Faculty Mentor

Prof. R. Vijaya
Dept. of Physics & CELP

Workshops & other Events  
  Upcoming talk:

OSA Traveling Lecturer Talk by Prof. Raman Kashyap on 10th, December, 2019


OSA Student chapter of IITK:Invited Talks-2016-19

Date                    
Speaker Affiliation Title of the talk
9th Apr. 2019 Ms. Garima Bawa Dept. of Physics, IIT Kanpur Existence of two unique wavelengths: critical and cross-over wavelengths in the transmission spectrum of directional couplers
12th Mar. 2019 Mr. Girish Kulkarni Dept. of Physics, IIT Kanpur Novel tools for characterizing photon correlations in parametric down-conversion
25th Feb. 2019 Mr. Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay TBA Optical diagnosis of cancer and diabetic macular edema
1st Feb. 2019 Dr.Jyoti Jaiswal Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee Development of nanostructured thin films for laser detonator, optoelectronic and gas sensing application
27th Sept. 2018 Mr. Pavan Kumar Dept. of Physics, IIT Kanpur Comparison of different spectroscopic techniques for oral precancer detection on human tissue and saliva
10th Aug. 2018 Mr. Syed Tajammul Ahmad Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur Mitigation of linear and nonlinear impairments in coherent optical OFDM system using radial basis function neural networks
16th Apr. 2018 Ms. Asha Yadav Center for Energy, IIT Guwahati Growth and study of optoelectronic properties of a-Si:H/nc-Si:H based superlattice structures
16th Feb. 2018 Mr. Arif Warsi Laskar Dept. of Physics, IIT Kanpur Probing, Quantifying and Freezing Coherence in a Thermal Ensemble of Atoms
8th Nov. 2017 Dr. Indrajeet Kumar CELP, IIT Kanpur Pulsed laser deposition and characterization of carbon thin films
23rd Oct. 2017 Dr.Akhilesh Kumar Mishra Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Technion- Israel, Institute of Technology,Israel Triggering and controlling coherence in a room temperature quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier
16th Oct. 2017 Mr. Prince Gupta Dept. of Physics, IIT Kanpur Surface plasmon resonances and their interactions with molecular resonances on corrugated gold gratings
12th Sept. 2017 Dr. Venkata Ramaiah Badarla University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan Development of ultrafast optical parametric oscillators from near to mid-infrared region
31st Aug. 2017 Dr. Sudip Kumar Chatterjee CELP, IIT Kanpur Selective excitation of higher order modes in Gelatin-coated multilayered fiber for high relative humidity measurement
29th Mar. 2017 Prabodh Kumar Pandey Dept. of Physics, IIT Kanpur Photoacoustics: A song of light and body
6th Feb. 2017 Subodh Kumar Gautam Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi Controlled tailoring of oxide thin films by defect engineering for optoelectronic applications
30th Jan. 2017 Abhishek Anchal Department of EE, IIT Kanpur Optical phase conjugation and its applications in telecommunications
5th Dec. 2016 Prof.Eric W. Van Stryland CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA Nonlinear spectroscopy: absorption and refraction
18th Oct. 2016 Nikhil Deep Gupta ECE Department, MNIT Jaipur Light Trapping in Photonic Crystal based Thin Film
26th Sept. 2016 Prof. P. K. Datta Dept. of Physics, IIT Kharagpur Optimised Generation of Terahertz Radiation for Phonon Spectroscopy of Doped GaSe Crystal
8th Sept. 2016 A. Kani Dept.of Physics, IIT Kanpur Weak-field Multiphoton excitation

Suo Moto Disclosure

                                                                                                                      Updated: 23rd October 2019

Vision:


We are an interdisciplinary centre that combines cutting edge technology from engineering and advances in science to create new horizons in the field of photonic science and engineering. Our expertise lies in the areas related to photonics, bio-photonics, imaging, spectroscopy, material processing, optical communication and quantum optics. Being an interdisciplinary research centre we bring together team or individuals that integrate techniques, tools and perspectives from two or more disciplines to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of any single discipline or area of research. Our vision is to contribute meaningfully to the world through excellence in scientific education and research, and furthermore create valuable resource for the society at large.

Faculty profile:


We provide platform for interdisciplinary research on light related technologies, and hence draw faculty from various departments across the institute including Aerospace Engineering , Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering , Mechanical Engineering and Physics.

Admission Criterion:


M.Tech/MS(Research):


Candidates are shortlisted for a written test conducted by CELP on the basis of GATE score cutoffs. Subsequently, the candidates who clear the written test are chosen to appear for interview. The final selections are made on the basis of GATE score and interview marks.

Ph.D:


The candidates with qualifying degree of M.Tech/ME or equivalent may be called for interview on the basis of percentage marks/CPI cutoffs in qualifying degree. The candidates with master's degree in science or an allied area may be called for interview on the basis of percentage marks/CPI cutoffs in the master's degree if they satisfy each of the following three criteria:

    • a minimum of 65 percent marks/6.5 CPI in the master's degree,

    • first division in bachelor's degree, and

    • valid JRF/GATE score.

The candidates with a bachelor's degree in engineering or science (4 year programme) with a minimum of 75 percent marks/7.5 CPI and a valid GATE score may be called for interview. The final selections are made on the basis of interview marks.



Note:

    • For admission to M.Tech, the requirement of GATE score is waived off for candidates with the B.Tech/B.S (Four Year) degree from IITs with a minimum overall CPI of 6.5 and a minimum CPI of 8.0 in the last two years in B.Tech/B.S (Four Year).

    • For admission to Ph.D., the requirement of GATE score is waived for candidates with a bachelor's degree in engineering from the centrally funded technical institutes (CFTIs).

    • For Part Time/Sponsored/External candidates, the sponsoring organization must specifically undertake to provide full salary to the candidate and to relieve him/her to pursue the programme at IIT Kanpur.

    • All candidates applying for PG admission must satisfy the minimum eligibility requirements as per the IIT Kanpur PG Admission guidelines.

People:



 1    Number of faculty    13 
 2    Number of staff    05
 3    Number of Research establishment Officer  01
4   Number of Post-doctoral fellows    02
 5    Number of PhD. students    17
 6    Number of M.Tech students    14
 7    Number of MS (Research) students    02

Research laboratories:


      • Optical Instrumentation Laboratory
      • Microfluidics and Sensors Laboratory
      • Biophotonics Laboratory
      • Ultrafast Laser Laboratory
      • Optoelectronics & Nanofabrication Laboratory
      • Quantum Optics Laboratory
      • Photonics Laboratory
      • Laser Applications Lab
      • Diffuse Light Imaging Laboratory

Central facilities:


      • Femtosecond Laser Lab Facility
      • DC/RF Magnetron Sputtering System Facility for Thin Film Deposition
      • Workshop
      • Library


 

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