News

2023

• June : My personal experience with MSCA, talk at Master class for MSCA postdoctoral fellowships organized by Service Center Research and Transfer, FSU, Jena

• April : Our review "Geometric Phase in Optics: From Wavefront Manipulation to Waveguiding" was one of the #TopDownloadedArticle in #Laser and #Photonics #Reviews. You can find it here.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/lpor.202100003

#OpenAcess #MSCA #IF #SPINONICS 

• Video interview : Links to video interviews by OPTICA can be viewed here and here.

• March : Dr Jisha Chandroth Pannian was interviewed by the Optics and Photonics News magazine of OPTICA. You can read the interview here.
  https://www.optica-opn.org/home/career/2023/march/senior_member_insights_jisha_chandroth_pannian/
  
  

• Several of our work is presented at CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2021, 21-25 June 2021

• Oral presentation Thursday 15:15
  Interplay between geometric and dynamic phase in liquid crystals. Chandroth P Jisha, Jeroen Beeckman , Stefan Nolte, and Alessandro Alberucci
  We investigate light propagation in thick samples under the simultaneous influence of dynamic and geometric phase. Our experiments in liquid crystals show how the light self-trapping depends on the interplay of the two contributions.

• Oral presentation  Wednesday 15:45
  Optical waveguides based upon a gauge field. Alessandro Alberucci, Chandroth P Jisha, and Stefan Nolte
  We discuss light waveguiding due to a synthetic gauge field. Our proposal relies on longitudinally periodic structures, where the gauge field corresponds to a point-wise shift of the longitudinal index modulation.

• Oral presentation Wednesday 8:45
  Analysis of laser-inscription of waveguides in bulk Silicon via ultrashort pulses. Alessandro Alberucci, Namig Alasgarzade , Markus Blothe, Maxime Chambonneau, Chandroth P Jisha , and Stefan Nolte
  The process of writing Silicon waveguides using ultrashort lasers is investigated. After addressing the nonlinear propagation of the writing pulse analytically and numerically, we characterize the index profile of the written waveguides using transversally-shifted inputs.

• Webinar: Photonics as a pathway for a career in Physics.
  Keynote address and invited talk in connection with National Science day celebration. Dept of Physics, Deva Matha College Kuruvilangad, Kerala, India

• PhD Student
  A PhD student hired through the Max-Planck School of Photonics started working in the area of Spin-orbit photonics

• Review article on Geometric Phase in optics submitted to Laser and Photonics Reviews for consideration.

• Student Training
  A Master student Mr. Don Sajan was given an opportunity to work within the Project in designing a Stokes Polarimeter.

• Webinar: Geometric Phase : A Novel Approach to Photonic Devices.
  International Webinar on Advances in Nonlinear optics and Space Sciences, Providence College, Kerala, India

• Webinar for graduate and master students: Self-trapping of light using the geometric phase.
  International web symposium on Nonlinear systems and its applications, SRM University, Chennai, India

• Webinar for graduate and master students: Things to consider before a PhD and some Photonics.
  Prof V C Kuriakose Memorial Workshop Series

• Panel Discussion: Research in Physics – Challenges and Opportunities
  Prof V C Kuriakose Memorial Workshop Series

• Webinar for graduate students: Geometric Phase in Optics.
  Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Aquinas College, Kerala, India

• Engaged in one to one phone-in talk with selected school students about career in Science and Optics.
  Telescience Scholar Program, Old Students Association, General Education Department, Kerala, India.

• Dr Jisha Chandroth Pannian started her MSCA-IF fellowship at Institute of Applied Physics, UniJena, Germany.