Photonics Science and Engineering

Center for Lasers and Photonics, IIT Kanpur

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Welcome to Center for Lasers and Photonics

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Central Manufacturing Technology Institute(CMTI), Bangalore
and IIT Kanpur signed a MoU on collaborative research in Laser Technology,
Photonics and Advanced Manufacturing Technology.

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About Us

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.

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Head of Department

Prof. Pradeep Kumar K

Head, Centre for Lasers and Photonics
Phone:0512-259-7570
Email: head_ltp@iitk.ac.in / pradeepk@iitk.ac.in

Lab NameResearch AreasEquipmentsPrincipal Investigator
Photonics Lab Lasers and Photonics (Fiber optics, Photonic crystals, nonlinear optics, Antennas) DC/RF sputtering system, UV-Vis- NIR spectrophotometrer, stylus profilometer, optical microscope, Nanosecond-pulsed Nd: YAG laser with SHG/THG, lasers at multiple wavelengths, and detectors at different wavelengths. Dr. R. Vijaya
Optical Metrology and Imaging Lab Optical coherent imaging, Non- destructive precision metrology Single frequency lasers, Optical Table, sCMOS cameras, GPU workstations Dr. Gannavarpu Rajshekhar
Fiber and integrated optics Lab Fiber and integrated optics; infrared and terahertz frequency sensors; long-period gratings, Fiber optic Bragg gratings, Plasmonics and metamaterials. Optical Spectrum Analyzer, Fiber Splicing Machine, Supercontinuum source, Fiber optic fs laser, Fiber cleaver, Abbe refractometer, Motorized precision translational stage, pH meter, Power meter, Magnetic Stirrer, Hot Plate, Precision Weighing machine Dr. Saurabh Mani Tripathi
Photonic Devices Lab Nanophotonics, quantum optics Home-built microscope set up with spectral and time resolved measurement facility Dr. Shilpi Gupta
Optoelectron ics and Nanofabricat ion Lab Optoelectronics, Compound Semiconductors, mm- wave measurements, Lasers, Device fabrication ps-pulsed laser source at 980nm, 1550 nm, and 400 nm, CO2 laser (10W), Laser Scanner (1kHz), MCT detectors (4kHz, 4kV/W), Tunable laser (1270-1650nm), MJB3 Mask Aligner (i-line, 3inch substrates), Zeiss Microscope (50X obj), Photoresist Spinner (4800rpm), Reactive Ion Etch System etc. Dr. Utpal Das
Micro-scale Transport Laboratory Optical instrumentation, Optofluidics, DBD plasma actuator, Electrohydrodynamic atomization and encapsulation Digital holographic interferometry (DHI), Digital holographic microscopy (DHM), Micro particle image velocimetry (μPIV), Time- resolved particle image velocimetry, Laser Schlieren,Infrared Thermography (IRT) Dr. Pradipta Kumar Panigrahi
Diffuse Light Imaging Laboratory Classical Optics and Quantum Optics Spectrometer and White light Source Dr. Harshwardhan Wanare
Femtosecond laser spectroscopy laboratory Ultrafast and single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy Wet Laboratory Room, Surface Second Harmonic Generation Setup, Spectrophotometer, Regenerative Amplifier, Picosecond Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC), Fluorometer, Dipole Meter, Abbe Refractometer, Ultrasonic Interferometer Dr. Pratik Sen
Biophotonics Lab Biophotonics, Laser spectroscopy and Imaging, Intrinsic fluorescence, Fluorescence lifetime imaging Argon-ion laser, Triplemate monochromator, Starbright Diode laser 785 nm, FluorologIII, spectrofluorimeter, ANDOR CCD and Spectrograph (Shamrock) system, Apex 2- Xenon Lamp source, Ocean optics Tungsten Halogen light source, ANDOR iXon EMCCD, ANDOR APOGEE CCD, PCO Pixelfly CCD, Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging system, Diode laser 375nm, Diode laser 405nm, Helium Neon Laser 17mW, Ocean Optics spectrometer Dr. Asima Pradhan
Femto Lab Femtosecond pulse shaping; coherent control and optical approaches to quantum computing; spatiotemporal control using ultrafast tweezers and nonlinear optics; two-photon and multi- photon microscopy; ultrafast thermal spectroscopy for molecular identification and processes. Confocal Microscope, NOPA ring Dr. Debabrata Goswami
Ultracold Ions and Atoms Lab Quantum computations and simulations with trapped ions, Quantum technologies using cold atoms, Precision measurements, Quantum Optics Tunable CW lasers, wavemeter Dr. S Ranjita 
Optical Instrumentati on Lab Optical Techniques, Flow Control Hierarchical Porous Media.   Dr. K Muralidhar
Advanced fiber and quantum optics laboratory AND Quantum Key Distribution laboratory Quantum Cryptography and Computation, Quantum and Nonlinear Optics, Fiber Optics Oscilloscope 13 GHz BW (DCA- X, Infinium), Light wave measurement system mainframe 8164B, Arbitrary Waveform Generator, EDFA (AMP 901), Si Photodiode Array, Real Time Oscilloscope, Optical Modulation Analyzer (Keysight M8290A) Dr. Pradeep Kumar
Tomographic Imaging Laboratory Electrical Impedance Tomography, Fluorescence and photoacoustic tomography Data Collection equipment For EIT Dr. Naren Naik
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  3. Recommended Conferences for awards
  4. PG Manual
Students NameRoll No.Email Id
Nairit Banerjee 231160401 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Students NameRoll No.Email Id
Batch-2023
Arpan Kali 231160001 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ashutosh Pankaj 231160002 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Deendayal Kumawat 231160003 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Harshit Singh 231160004 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Md Sk Sahidulla 231160005 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Megha Singh 231160006 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nikhil Sinha 231160007 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Preetam Yadav 231160008 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Rudra Prasad Goswami 231160009 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sagar Yadav 231160011 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Swati 231160012 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Shubham Kumar 231160014 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Batch-2022
Shivam Verma 22116007 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kanchi Tejaswi 22116003 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Beyant Singh Chandrakar 22116002 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Amit Padey 22116001 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Batch-2021
Kunal Bhajbhuje 21116005 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Moirangthem Bikramjit Singh 21116006 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Shivansh Srivastava 21116007 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  1. IEEE MTT-S, IMARC (2021)"Multispectral Non-Hierarchical Metastructures for Radiation Management and Limits of Perfect Absorption" by Nitish Kumar Gupta,Harshawardhan Wanare, Gaganpreet Singh, J. Ramkumar,Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, and S. Anantha Ramakrishna.
  2. SCPQT-2021, NISER "Ultra-narrowband asymmetric perfect absorption in quasi-random planar structures" by Nitish Kumar Gupta, Anjani Kumar Tiwari, Harshawardhan Wanare, and S. Anantha Ramakrishna.
  3. European Conference on Biomedical Optics (pp. EM1A-22). Optical Society of America(June 2021) "A smartphone-based 3D printed prototype for polarized fluorescence collection from human cervix" by Shukla, S., Ahirwar, S., & Pradhan, A.
  4. IEEE IPC 2021, paper ThC1.2 "Laser-induced Emission from Tamm Plasmon-activated Three-dimensional Photonic Crystal" by Govind Kumar and R Vijaya(Oral Presentation).
  5. Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science-2021, paper JTu1A.95, Washington DC, USA (1- 4 Nov. 2021) "Computational Spectrometer based on Photonic Crystal Cavity and Reconstruction Algorithm" by Naresh Sharma, Govind Kumar, Shilpi Gupta(Poster Presentation).
  6. Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science-2021, paper JTu1A.94, Washington DC, USA (1- 4 Nov. 2021) "Experimental Generation of Dispersion Curve of Photonic Crystal Cavity using two Laser Sources" by Naresh Sharma, Govind Kumar, Shilpi Gupta(Poster Presentation).
  7. CLEO-2020: Science and Innovations SM4E. 5, San Jose, California, USA (11-15 May 2020), "Generation of Annular Beam using Photonic Crystal Cavity" by Naresh Sharma, Govind Kumar, Shilpi Gupta(Oral Presentation).
  8. CLEO-2020: Science and Innovations, JTh2F. 36, San Jose, California, USA (11-15 May 2020), "Far-field Optical Diffraction Imaging of Opal-based Photonic Crystal" by Govind Kumar, A Haldar, R Vijaya (Poster).
  9. Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science-2020, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper JTu1A.1., "Spectral Characterization of Light Source using Photonic Crystal Cavity" by N. Sharma, G. Kumar, R. Vijaya, and S. Gupta.
  10. Tissue Optics and Photonics (Vol. 11363, p. 113631R). International Society for Optics and Photonics(April 2020), "Wavelet transform of Fourier domain low coherence interference spectra for breast cancer detection" by Bharti, D., Sahoo, G. R., Shukla, S., & Pradhan, A.
  11. Tissue Optics and Photonics (Vol. 11363, p. 113631L). International Society for Optics and Photonics (April 2020), "Extraction of thickness and fluorophore concentration of the upper layer in a two-layered solid phantom using spatially resolved fluorescence spectroscopy" by Shukla, S., Singh, P., Pandey, P. K., & Pradhan, A.
  12. IEEE Photonics Conference, Vancouver, Canada (2020), "Unidirectional Narrowband Perfect Absorption in Quasi-random Structures-Interplay of Gap States and Tamm Plasmon Modes" by Nitish Kumar Gupta, Anjani Kumar Tiwari, Harshawardhan Wanare, S. Anantha Ramakrishna.
  13. IEEE-WRAP, IIT Guwahati 2019, "Information Encryption in Thermal Metamaterials by Emissivity Engineering" by Nitish Kumar Gupta, Harshawardhan Wanare, S. Anantha Ramakrishna.
  14. European Conference on Biomedical Optics(p.11076_60).Optical Society of America, June 2019, "Wavelet leader based multifractal analysis of phase contrast images for cervical pre-cancer detection" by GR Sahoo,Shivam Shukla and Asima Pradhan.
  15. Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP) 2019, "Plasmonic Waveguide Based Optical Ring Resonator For Bio-sensing Application" by Soumya Kumari and Saurabh Mani Tripathi.
  16. Frontiers in Optics 2019, Washington DC, 15-19 Sept 2019, "Remote Imaging of Cracks in Self-assembled Photonic Crystals" by Sravya Rao, Rahul Shaw, Dipak Rout, Govind Kumar, R.Vijaya and Shilpi Gupta (poster).
  17. ADMAT-2019, Hyderabad, 23-25 Sept 2019, "Special-purpose Dielectric Optical Coatings" by Govind Kumar, Linu George and R.Vijaya (e-poster).
  18. ICOL-2019, Dehradun, 19-22 Oct 2019, "Far-detuned ultraviolet wavelength generation in dispersion-shifted fiber by cascaded intermodal four-wave mixing" by Sudip K.Chatterjee and R.Vijaya (Oral).
  19. ICOL-2019, Dehradun, 19-22 Oct 2019, "Dual-band Microstrip Patch Antenna for KU and K bands" by Garima Joshi and R.Vijaya (Poster).
  20. ICOL-2019, Dehradun, 19-22 Oct 2019, "Control of Optical Bistability in Erbium Doped Fiber Laser by Wavelength Tuning" by Deeksha Jachpure and R.Vijaya (Poster).
  21. Invited talk, ICOL-2019, Dehradun, 19-22 Oct 2019, "Multi-functional Heterostructures and Metasurfaces for Photonic Applications" by R.Vijaya.
  22. ISOT-2019, Goa, 11-13 Nov 2019, "Polarization anisotropy of dye-activated molecules in different environments" by Pratyasha Sahani and R.Vijaya (Poster).
  23. ISOT-2019, Goa, 11-13 Nov 2019, "Optical Diffraction from a Metasurface of Periodically Arranged Air Pockets" by Arpita Haldar and R.Vijaya (Oral).
  24. Invited talk, ISOT-2019, Goa, 11-13 Nov 2019, "Diffraction as a Tool for Optical Characterization of Photonic Crystals" by R.Vijaya.
  25. 2nd Indian Conference on Antennas & Propagation (InCAP-2019), Ahmedabad, 19-22 Dec 2019, "Dual band Microstrip Patch Antenna using uniplanar EBG of aperture-type FSS" by Garima Joshi and R.Vijaya (Oral).
  26. Govind Kumar, Nitish Kumar Gupta and R. Vijaya, ", "Tamm Plasmon Coupled Fluorescence Enhancement in One Dimensional Distributed Feedback Cavity", icONMAT 2019, Kochi, Jan 3-5, 2019.
  27. Arpita Haldar and R. Vijaya, "Planar Optical Heterostructure for Wide-angle Diffraction using Soft Imprint Lithography", icONMAT 2019, Kochi, Jan 3-5, 2019.
  28. Sudip K. Chatterjee and R.Vijaya, "Generation of discrete ultraviolet-visible wavelengths via intermodal four-wave mixing in SMF-28 fiber", Photonics 2018, Delhi, Dec. 12-15, 2018.
  29. Tushar Gaur and D. Goswami, "Pulse width effect on laser heating in condensed phase light-matter interactions", Photonics 2018, Delhi, Dec. 12-15, 2018.
  30. Deeksha Jachpure, Suchita and R. Vijaya, "Role of spectral features in the temporal coherence characteristics of a broadband erbium-doped fiber laser", Photonics 2018, Delhi, Dec. 12-15, 2018.
  31. Nitish Kumar Gupta and R. Vijaya, "Single Material Periodic Photonic Structures for Dispersion Compensation", Photonics 2018, Delhi, Dec. 12-15, 2018.
  32. Anupa Kumari, Samir Kumar, Govind Kumar, Mukesh K. Shukla, Partha S. Maji, R. Vijaya and Ritwick Das, "Impact of geometrical parameters on excitation of Tamm-plasmon-polaritons", Photonics 2018, Delhi, Dec. 12-15, 2018.
  33. Sudip K. Chatterjee and R.Vijaya, "Experimental demonstration of far-detuned sidebands via intermodal four-wave mixing in SMF-28 fiber with Q-switched nanosecond pulses", OSI-ISO Symposium, Kanpur, Sept. 20-22, 2018.
  34. Tushar Gaur and D. Goswami, "Establishing the paucity of thermal effects for pulsed versus CW lasers in fluids", OSI-ISO Symposium, Kanpur, Sept. 20-22, 2018.
  35. Govind Kumar, Mansoor B and Pradeep Kumar Krishnamurthy, "Subcarrier modulation to improve detuning bandwidth of harmonic mode locked fiber lasers," 2018 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), Dhanbad, 2018, pp. 1-2.
  36. Govind Kumar and R.Vijaya, "Band edge- and defect mode-induced emission from photonic crystal heterostructure cavity", Thirty years of photonic crystals - the Indian research scenario, Kanpur, Sept 21-23, 2017.
  37. Amar Ghar*, Sanyogita, U Das and P K Panigrahi, "Optical waveguide characteristics fabricated by femtosecond laser direct writing on quartz glass materials" XLI OSI International Conference on Advances in Optics & Photonics, November 23-26, 2017, Guru Jambheshwer University of Science & Technology, Hisar, India.
  38. Arpita Sinha Roy and Pradeep Kumar K., "Low Jitter Measurement of Laser Linewidth using Brillouin Induced Self-Heterodyne Method", Frontiers in Optics 2017, (Optical Society of America), paper JTu3A.46, Washington, D.C. United States,18-21 September, 2017.
  39. Ankita Jain, Pradeep Kumar K. and Pascal Landais, "Mitigating Impairments in 200 Gbps PM-QPSK Modulated Systems Using Bank Of Parallel EKFs" accepted in Advanced Photonics Congress (to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA from 24th-27th July 2017), Optical Society of America, 2017.
  40. Govind Kumar, Dipak Rout and R.Vijaya, "Enhancement and spectral narrowing of emission from photonic crystal heterostructure mediated by band edge modes" Advanced Photonics Congress, New Orleans, July 24-27, 2017.
  41. Chanchal and Dr. P.K Panigrahi, Defect Detection of Electronic Circuit Using Digital Holographic Interferometry, The Fifth International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering (ICOPEN 2017), April 5-7, Singapore (2017).
  42. Sanyogita*, Amar Ghar ,U. Das and P K Panigrahi, Study of microstructure and microhole fabrication on PDMS by femtosecond laser direct writing technique for development of miniaturized photonic devices, OWT-2017(Springer), 18 March- 19 March 2017, MNIT Jaipur.
  43. Sanyogita*, Amar Ghar and P K Panigrahi, Study of microstructure and microhole fabrication on PDMS by femtosecond laser direct writing technique for development of miniaturized photonic devices, OWT-2017(Springer), 18 March- 19 March 2017, MNIT Jaipur.
  44. Saket O. Wankhade, Arpita Haldar, Rahul Shaw, R. Vijaya, and Shilpi Gupta, "Fabrication of Diffraction Grating by Patterning Gold Nanoparticles using DVD", The International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, 4-8 December, Kanpur India, 2016;
  45. Amar Ghar*, Sanyogita and P K Panigrahi, Effect of etching solution on femtosecond laser assisted microchannel fabrication in glass, Photonics-2016 (OSA), 04 Dec-08 Dec 2016, IIT Kanpur
  46. Ankita Jain, Pradeep Kumar Krishnamurthy, Pascal Landais and Prince M. Anandarajah, "Extended Kalman Filter For Estimation of Phase Noises and Frequency Offset in 400G PM-16-QAM systems", 13th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, OSA Technical Digest (online), pp. Tu3A.3, 04-08 December, 2016, IIT Kanpur, India.
  47. Arpita Haldar, Govind Kumar and R. Vijaya, "Selective Spectral Narrowing from Distributed Feedback in Dye-doped Polymer-based Heterostructure Cavity", The International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics 4-8 Dec, IIT Kanpur, India (2016).
  48. Amar Ghar*, Sanyogita and P K Panigrahi, Effect of etching solution on femtosecond laser assisted microchannel fabrication in glass, Photonics-2016(OSA), 04 Dec-08 Dec 2016, IIT Kanpur.
  49. Krishnandu Makhal, Sidharth Maurya, and Debabrata Goswami, Reverse Saturable Absorption followed by Anomalous Saturable Absorption in Rhodamine-700 International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, Dec 4-8, IIT Kanpur (2016).
  50. Ankita Jain, Pradeep Kumar K., Pascal Landais and Prince M. Anandarajah, "Extended Kalman Filter For Estimation of Phase Noises and Frequency Offset in 400G PM-16-QAM systems", in International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, Optical Society of America, 2016.
  51. Chanchal and Dr. P.K Panigrahi, Comparison between Digital Inline and Off- axis Holography System for Particle field Characterization, The International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics - PHOTONICS 2016, December 4-8 IIT KANPUR INDIA (2016).
  52. Sanyogita*, U. Das and P K Panigrahi, Simulations Studies for femtosecond laser inscribed Bragg grating structures on polymer, OPTRONIX 2016(Springer), 17Aug - 19 Aug 2016, IEM Kolkata.
  53. Nishanth Chandra, Ankita Jain and Pradeep Kumar Krishnamurthy, "Tunable multiwavelength fiber laser using, polarization and wavelength dependent loss" in Advanced photonics, pp. NeT1D-4. Optical Society of America, 27 June-1 July, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  54. Ankita Jain and Pradeep K. Krishnamurthy, "Tracking linear and nonlinear phase noise in 100G QPSK modulated systems using Kalman filter" in Advanced photonics, pp. JM3A-8, Optical Society of America, 27 June-1 July, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  55. Arpita Haldar, M.Srinivas Reddy and R.Vijaya, "Self-assembled Photonic Crystals as Patterning Templates for Enhanced Efficiency of Photovoltaic Devices", 8th India Singapore Symposium in Condensed Matter Physics, February, IIT Kanpur, 2015;
  56. Ankita Jain, Abhishek Anchal, and Pradeep K. Krishnamurthy, "Continuously tunable multiwavelength actively mode locked EDFRL using intra-cavity birefringence" in International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, Optical Society of America, 13-16 December, 2014, IIT Kharagpur, India.
  57. Suchita Yadav, Govind Kumar and R. Vijaya, "Stimulated Raman Scattering in Toluene for Efficient New Wavelength Generation", The International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, 13-16 Dec, IIT Kharagpur India (2014)
  58. Ankita Jain, Suchita, Pradeep Kumar K., and R. Vijaya, "Pump suppressed four-wave mixing in optical fibers for correlated photon generation using feedback technique" in SPIE Photonics West, pp. 89641X-89641X-6, 1-6 February, 2014, Moscone Center San Francisco, CA, United States.
  59. Ankita Jain and Pradeep K. Krishnamurthy, "RF pulse shaping for higher-order optical modulation" in National Conference on Communications (NCC), pp. 1-4, 28 Feb-2 Mar, 2014, IIT Kanpur, India.
  60. Mukund Anandan, Ankita Jain, Syed Tajammul Ahmad, and Pradeep Kumar K., "RF pulse shaping for QPSK, PM-QPSK and QAM formats" Frontiers in Optics 2013, (Optical Society of America), paper FW4B.6, Orlando, Florida, USA, 6-10 October, 2013.

News & Announcement

  • Prof Shilpi Gupta has been awarded with P.K Kelkar Fellowship from the Institute.
  • Prof Pratik Sen has been awarded with Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professorship.
 

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