March 2024: Deepak delivered a talk on "Fiber Lasers" at Bennett University, Greater Noida, on 15th March 2024 during Uphoria-2024, the annual cultural festival.
Feb 2024: Deepak delivered an Invited talk on "Future of Hollow-Core Optical Fiber Technology for Data Center and Quantum Communication," during National Communication Conference, 28 February – 2 March 2024 IIT Madras,India.
Feb 2024: Deepak delivered an Invited talk on "How to Promote Yourself as a Young Researcher?" at IISER Pune.
Feb 2024: Deepak visited "Punjab Engineering College" and delivered a talk on "Deep Tech Entrepreneurship".
Jan 2024: Deepak is teaching a three-credit course on Integrated Photonics this semester!
Jan 2024: Poonam Yadav joins as a PhD student. Welcome Poonam!
Jan 2024: Deepak Jain and Prof. Sumeet Sinha (Civil) jointly won the Discover and Learn grant worth 8 Lac from IRD, IIT Delhi. 4 UG students will wok on this project !!
Dec 2023: Abhishek Pandey and Vishal reached to regional finale of the Boeing 3.0 program! Congrats to both!
Dec 2023: Soorej T and Shruti Jain presented their work during XLVI OSI Symposium and International Conference on Optics, Photonics, and Quantum Information in Kochi, Kerala.
Dec 2023: Deepak made a trip to Odisha and visited three Universities GIET University Gunupur, IIT Bhubaneswar, and NISER Bhubaneswar. Here, he talked about Deep-tech entrepreneurship in Optics and Photonics.
Nov 2023: SFPD gets a "Single Photon Detector"!
Nov 2023: Abhishek and Vishal win Tide 2.0 Entrepreneurship grant from MEITY and congrats to both.
October 2023: Ms. Shruti Jain and Mr. Soorej T were selected to attend the ICFO-TIFR International School on the Frontiers of Light, held in Hyderabad, India.
October 2023: Deepak inaugurated the Optica's Student Chapter at Bennett University, Greater Noida, India.
September 2023: Three abstracts have been selected for presentation at SPIE Photonic West, San Francisco, USA, Feb 2024.
August 2023: Ms. Shruti Jain and Mr. Soorej T won the OPC's Startup Challenge in Optics & Photonics Engineering (SCOPE)-2023 under the Assigned Innovation Challenge (AIC). Many Congratulations to Both!
Mr. Abhishek Pandey and Mr. Vishal Vishwakarna won the OPC's Startup Challenge in Optics & Photonics Engineering (SCOPE)-2023 under the Open Innovation Challenge (OIC). Many Congratulations to Both!
July 2023: Two abstracts are accepted for the "Frontier in Optics" Conference, to be held in Tacoma, Washington USA in Oct.
July2023: Mr. Suraj awasthi, Ms, Shazia Nazish, and Mr. Vishal Vishwakarma joins as a PhD student with SFPD group. welcome to all!
June 2023: Here comes the first journal paper of SFPD group: K. Ojha, D. Mishra, K. Appaiah, D. Jain, “Optimizing Graded-Index Fiber for Space Division Multiplexing,” Accepted to Optics Express, 31, 21784-21795, June 2023.
May 2023: Mr Suraj Awasthi Joins as a PhD Student. Welcome Suraj!
May 2023: Mr. Prashant Joins the SFPD group for MTech thesis. Welcome Prashant !
May 2023: On 16th May 2023, OPC celebrated "The International Day of Light". Happy International Light Day to every one!
April 2023: Deepak wins a grant worth 20 Lac to initiate work on mid-infrared single photon detector.
March 2023: Shruti Jain join as a PhD student, welcome Shruti!
Feb 2023: Deepak is teaching three one-credit courses this semester.
OPL701: Numerical Simulations of Optical Waveguides using COMSOL Multiphysics
OPL702: Development of Telescopes: From Galilean Telescope to James Webb Space Telescope
OPL703: Hollow-Core Optical Fiber Communication Technology
Feb 2023: Deepak delivered a talk on "Future of Photonics" at Bennett University, Greater Noida.
Jan 2023: Mr. Abhishek Pandey joins the group as a PhD student, Welcome Abhishek!
Jan 2023: Dr. Moumita Indra and Dr. Esther Lidiya wins Institute Postdoc Fellowship, Welcome Both!
Dec 2022: SFPD moves to Optics and Photonics Center, IIT Delhi
Oct 2022: SFPD is proud to announce the acceptance of three oral presentations at Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 2023.
Sept 2022: Deepak wins SERB's Strat-up Research Grant worth 30 Lac!
August 2022: Deepak is teaching EE207 Electronic Devices and Circuits and EE6101: Nonlinear Fiber Optics and Devices this semester.
July 2022: Deepak visited NIT Delhi as an Optical Ambassador!
June 2022: Mr. Sumit Kumar Sarpal and Mr. Soorej T join SFPD as PhD students. Welcome, Both!
May 2022: Dr. Manoranjan Minz wins the Institute Postdoc Fellowship. Welcome to the SFPD!
May 2022: Deepak visited IITK as an Optica Ambassador!
March 2022: Deepak will serve as a Technical Committee Program (TCP) member of the Asian Communications and Photonics Conference in Shenzhen, China, in Nov 2022.
Feb 2022: Ms. Komal Ojha joins as a PhD student. Welcome, Komal!
Feb 2022: Deepak will deliver a talk on "Recent Advancement in Optical Fibers for Optical Communication " at an event organized by Telecom Engg. Centre , Govt of India, Western Region, Mumbai on 23r Feb.
Jan 2022: Dr. Darpan Mishra wins the Institute Postdoc fellowship. SFPD is excited to host Dr. Mishra.
Jan 2022: Deepak will host a campfire session on 21st Jan 2022 as a chair of OSA's Fiber Modelling and Fabrication group. Link: https://www.optica.org/en-us/meetings/webinar/2022/01_january/campfire_session_translating_innovation_from_unive/
December 2021: Deepak will teach EE432: Special Semiconductor Devices in Spring Semester.
November 2021: Six Undergraduate students join SFPD through iSURP scheme. Welcome All!
October 2021: Dipanjan Karmakar and Charanjeet Kaur Join the group as a PhD student. Welcome both!
September 2021: Deepak receives IITB seed grant worth 20Lac and IITB Young Faculty Award.
July 2021: The deadline to submit to JOSA-B's special issue on "Specialty Optical Fibers" has been extended to 31st July-2021. Deepak serves as a guest editor of this issue.
https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/journal/josab/feature_announce/sofmfc.cfm
April 2021: Deepak is elected as a Senior member of IEEE.
March 2021: Deepak won elections for both OSA's "Fiber Modelling and Fabrication (FF)" technical group and "Fiber Optics Technology Applications" technical group and will serve as a chair for three years from Jan-2022 to Dec 2024.