Fibre and Quantum Optics Laboratory

 

Research Areas

  • Optical Fibre Communication

  • Quantum key distribution

  • Quantum and Nonlinear fibre optics

 

Lab Instruments


Lab Setup


  

 

  • 10 Gbps External Mach-Zehnder Optical Modulator

  • 40 Gbps DQPSK Optical Modulator

  • Agilent 86142B Optical Spectrum Analyzer

  • Fiber Polarization Controller FPC030

  • Net Test 50LS8335XX Optical Test Source (Fabry-Perot Laser diode, 1550nm)

  • Net Test Power Meters

  • Optical Amplifier contains

  • Amp 901 type B2

  • DB9 Connectors(2 pic)

  • LDC & TEC Driver

  • Power Chord(2 pic)

  • Optical Bread boards

  • Optical fibres (MMF: 20 km, SMF: 5km, SMSP: 200m)

  • Optical mounts and translation stages

  • Optical Device Characterization and Fibre Optics Virtual Lab, (Joseph John and Pradeep Kumar) Sponsored Project from MHRD on National Mission on Education through ICT

  • Protection Devices for Urban and Rural Exchanges, (Joseph John) BSNL project

  • Decoy state method for frequency-coded QKD (Pradeep Kumar) Initiation grant from IIT Kanpur

  • Fiber-optic entangled photon pair generation for generation for quantum key distribution and quantum optics


  • Kumar. P and Prabhakar. A, "Evolution of quantum states of light in an electro-optic phase modulator", IEEE Journ. of Quantum Electronics, Feb, Vol 45, 2009

  • Kumar. P and Prabhakar. A, "Bit error rate of a frequency coded quantum key distribution system", Optics Communications, Vol 282, No 18, pp. 3827-3833, 2009

  • Kumar. P, "Optical modulation schemes for frequency-coded quantum key distribution", To appear, National Conf on Communications, NCC, Jan 2010

  • Kumar. P and Prabhakar. A, "All-fibre autocorrelator for optical pulse width measurement", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6875, 68751F, 2008

  • Kumar. P and Prabhakar. A, "All-fibre autocorrelator for optical pulse width measurement", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6875, 68751F, 2008

  • Kumar. P and Prabhakar. A, "Bit error rate of a frequency coded quantum key distribution system", National Conf. on Communication, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India, 2009

  • Kumar. P and Prabhakar. A, "Dispersion measurement of single mode optical fibre using intensity modulators", Proc. of 13th National Conf. on Communications, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India, 2007

  • Bhattacharya. S and Kumar. P, "Decoy-state method for N-channel SCM FC-QKD", Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, Oct 2012 (Accepted for presentation)

  • Anchal. A and Kumar. P, "Bidirectional pumping for entangled photons", Nonlinear Photonics (OSA Topical Meeting), Colorado, June 2012

  • Kumar. P, "Quantum computing using magneto-optic Kerr effect", Proc. of International Conference on Quantum Optics and Quantum Computing (ICQOQC), Madrid, March 2012

  • Bhattacharya. S, Pandey. P, and Kumar. P, "Decoy-pulse protocol for frequency-coded quantum key distribution", Proc. of International Conference on Quantum Optics and Quantum Computing (ICQOQC), Madrid, March 2012

  • Bhattacharya. S and Kumar. P, "Decoy-pulse protocol for frequency-coded quantum key distribution", Proc. of National Conf on Communications, NCC, Jan 2012

  • Kumar. P and Prabhakar. A, "Frequency-coded scheme for BB84 QKD protocol using spin wave--optical interactions", Proc. of SPIE Photonics West, San Diego, USA, Jan 2011


  • Syed Tajammul Ahmad


  • Alok Jangid

  • Ankit Lodha

  • Arvind Kumar

  • Mukund Kumar

  • Ashish Vyas


 

Dr. Pradeep Kumar K
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Phone: 91-512-259-7570
Location: ACES 323 and 327