Projects & Awards

Sponsored Projects:

AISTDF-DST          Ultra-sensitive Nonlinear Fiber Optic Bio-sensor using Degenerate Four Wave Mixing Technique

(PI)                              in D-shaped Photonic Crystal Fiber

                                       ASEAN-INDIA Science & Technology Development Fund   -   February 2025 to January 2027

SERB (DST)            Theoretical Investigation on Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Tapered Photonic

           (PI)                           Crystal  Fiber Amplifier  for the Application of Pulse Compression            

                                                 June'2023 to May'2026

Indo-Uzpek-DST Parametric Interactions of Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Nonlinear Photonic

(Co PI to PI)            Crystals as Source of Multi-Wavelength Ultra-Short Pulses, 

                                       Indo-Uzpek collaborative project -  February 2021 to January 2024

AISTDF-DST          Generating High Power, Chirp and Pedestal Free Ultrashort Pulses based on

(PI)                              Self-similar Analysis in Tapered Photonic Crystal Fiber Amplifier

                                       ASEAN-INDIA Science & Technology Development Fund   -   August 2019 to July 2021

CSIR                            High Degree Pulse Compression by Supercontinuum Generation in Tapered

(PI)                         Photonic Crystal Fiber     -  June’2016- May’2019

       DST                              Modulational Instability Induced Supercontinuum Generation in Nonlinear

       (PI)                         Photonic Crystal Fiber   -  Nov'2013 to May'2017

                    Ph.D Supervised :

17th June 2020                       Dr. N. Nagarajan

Title: Design and Simulation of Nonlinear Optical Sensors using Degenerate

Four-Wave Mixing/Modulational Instability in Photonic Crystal Fibers

21st March 2023           Ms A Esther Lidiya

Title: Numerical Modelling of Photonic Crystal Fiber for the Generation of Low Pedestal Infrared Ultrashort Pulses through Self-Similar Compression

Reviewer:

  SERB Reviewer for one of the project propsal under core research grant (CRG) research scheme

SWAYAM             Evaluation work for translation of SWAYAM Course in Tamil language

  BOOK Reviewed IOP book 

OSA                      Optics Letters, Opt. Express, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Photonics Research, Applied optics, OSA continuum

IEEE                      Journal of Lightwave Technology, Journal of Quantum electronics

IOP                        Journal of Optics (IOP), Physica scripta, Journal of photonics, J.Phys: photonics,

Science Direct      Journal of Physics D, Optical materials, Chinese physics letters, Photonics and  Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications

Others                     Journal of modern optics, Journal of nanophotonics 

Awards Received:

• Co-Advisor for OSA student chapter, SASTRA

• Received Young Scientists Project award from DST-SERC - 2013

• Received Dr. D. S. Kothari postdoctoral fellowship from UGC 2013

• Senior Research Fellow – DST Project “Temporal and Spatial soliton propagation in nonlinear media” (May’2004 –Jan’2007).

• Project Fellow – UGC Fellowship (Feb’07 to Jan’ 09)

• Project Associate – DST Project “Investigation of light propagation through various nonlinear optical media” (Jan’09 to June’09)

Honors/Other Recognition Received:

•  A paper in the Virtual Special Issue on Sensors in Elsevier (2020).

• A research article “Highly efficient compact temperature sensor using liquid infiltrated asymmetric dual elliptical core photonic crystal fiber”, Optical materials 64, 574–582 (2017) was selected for the 2020 issue of Virtual Special Issue on Sensors in Elsevier.

• Our graphical abstract for the paper " Simultaneous Measurement of Salinity and Temperature in Gold-Coated D-Shaped Photonic Crystal Fiber Using Four-Wave Mixing Technique" has been selected as the cover image for the June 2018 volume 2 issue 2 of IEEE Sensors Letters

• Editor in Journal of Telecommunication, Switching Systems and Networks : Editorial Assignment

• I have been invited by Indian Academy Science (IAS) to take part in their activities of the Academy in the forthcoming Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the Academy held at Chandigarh during November 8-10, 2013

• The paper K. Nithyanandan, R. Vasantha Jayakantha Raja,T. Uthayakumar and K. Porsezian "Impact of higher order dispersion in the Modulational instability spectrum of a relaxing coupled saturable media",received best poster award by one of the co-author DAE-BRNS NLS-21, CP-06-20, BARC, 6th- 9th February, (2013).

• Session chairman, workshop on "Advances in Computational Physics"during 14th -16th  February, 2013at central University of Tamilnadu

• The paper R. Vasantha Jayakantha Raja, K. Nithyanandan, T. Uthayakumar, and K. Porsezian, “supercontinuum generation under exponential saturable nonlinear response” received best paper award through the oral presentation by one of the co-author in  XXXVI OSI symposium onFrontiers in Optics and Photonics, IIT Delhi,NewDelhiIndia,03 - 05 December, 2011

A paper in the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science (2010).

• A research article “Modulational-instability-induced supercontinuum generation with saturable nonlinear response”, Phys. Rev. A, 82, 013825 (1-6) (2010) was selected for the October 2010 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, Vol.9, Issue 8/ Photonics.

A paper in the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science (2010).

• A research article “Supercontinuum generation in liquid-filled photonic crystal fiber with slow nonlinear response”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 27, Issue 9, 1763-1768 (2010) was selected for the October 2010 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, Vol.9, Issue 10/ Photonics.

• Won the 1st Prize for practical skill in the inter college competition during the academic year 1998-1999 from St. Joseph College, Cuddalore.