Projects

Ongoing

• Design, fabrication and characterization of multimode interference based passive power splitters and coherent combiners on all-fiber platform using square core multimode fiber (PI: Dr. Nitin Bhatia, Funding Agency: ANRF-ARG, Govt. of India, Year: 2026-2029, Financial Layout: INR ~ 1.62 Crore) 

• Design and development of a low-cost, optical fiber probe based optical coherence tomography system under resource-constrained setting.

(PI: Dr. Nitin Bhatia, Funding Agency: ICMR, Govt. of India, Year: 2025-2028, Financial Layout: INR ~ 2 Crore) 

• Physical Layer Security Analysis of FSO Communication Systems over Arbitrarily Correlated Channels.

(PI: Dr. Aashish Mathur, Funding Agency: SERB, DST, Govt. of India, Year: 2024-2027, Financial Layout: INR 6,60,000) 

• Experimental Investigation and Performance Improvement of Visible Light Communication Systems.

(PI: Dr. Aashish Mathur, Funding Agency: SERB, DST, Govt. of India, Year: 2024-2027, Financial Layout: INR 52,58,275) 

• Design and development of mode division multiplexing scheme for fiber and free-space converged communication channel using all-fiber multimode interference based transmitter and receiver heads.

(PI: Dr. Nitin Bhatia, Funding Agency: ANRF-CRG, Govt. of India, Year: 2024-2027, Financial Layout: INR 43,54,759) 

Completed

• Experimental Investigation and Performance Evaluation of Visible Light Communication Systems.

(PI: Dr. Aashish Mathur, Funding Agency: IIT Jodhpur, Year: 2020-2023, Financial Layout: INR 24,00,000) 

• Design, Fabrication and Characterization of all-fiber multimode Interference(MMI) Devices for Generating highly pure Laguerre Gaussian(LG)Modes in free-space.

(PI: Dr. Nitin Bhatia, Funding Agency: SERB, DST, Govt. of India, Year: 2020-2022, Financial Layout: INR 28,72,820) 

• Design and development of low cost, fiber based optical power splitters for deployment in 5G fronthaul passive optical networks. 

(PI: Dr. Nitin Bhatia, Funding Agency: IIT Jodhpur, Year: 2021-2024, Financial Layout: INR 25,00,000) 

• Experimental Investigation and Performance Evaluation of HARQ Technique for Free Space Optical Communication Systems.

(PI: Dr. Aashish Mathur, Funding Agency: SERB, DST, Govt. of India, Year: 2019-2022, Financial Layout: INR 42,84,100)