News: Students
Graduations
Listed from the people pages; a graduation appears here once the person’s page records the year.
- 2023: Rohit Kumar Maurya, PhD. Now Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pt. Prithi Nath (P.G.) College, Kanpur
- 2020: Soumendra Nath Bandyopadhyay, PhD, thesis "Application of Femtosecond Optical Tweezers towards Understanding of Complex Systems"
- 2019: Tushar Gaur, M.Tech, thesis "Discerning the Effects of Thermal Nonlinearity in Optical Trapping"
- 2018: Yogendra Yadav, PhD
- 2018: Sumit Singhal, PhD, thesis "Femtosecond Laser Pulse Train Induced Photothermal Lensing in Nonlinear Optical Medium". Now Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado
- 2018: Rohit Kumar Yadav, M.Tech. Now R&D Member, TVS Motors
- 2017: Shirshendu Dinda, PhD, thesis "Engineering Optical Spatiotemporal Properties to Impact Femtosecond Nonlinearities: Case Studies and Implementations". Now Post Doctoral Research Associate, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
- 2017: Krishnandu Makhal, PhD, thesis "Third Order Optical Nonlinearities and Ultra-fast Dynamics at Visible and Near-IT Wavelengths". Now Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Michigan
- 2017: Dipankar Mondal, PhD, thesis "Application of Contact less Micromanipulation using One- and Two- color Fermtosecond Optical Tweezers". Now Postdoctoral Research Associate, State University of New York
- 2017: Dhiman Das, PhD, thesis "Spatiotemporal Approaches Towards Enhancing the Efficiency of Laser Scanning Fluorescence Microscopy in Condensed Phase"
- 2017: Sidharth Maurya, M.Tech, thesis "Ultrafast pulse shaping using interferometry"
- 2017: Anushka Jha, M.Tech, thesis "Active Microrheology of Soft Materials Using Optical Tweezers". Now Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University
- 2016: Debjit Roy, PhD, thesis "Control and application of two photon fluorescence in microscopy and optical tweezers". Now Postdoctoral Research Associate, The University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 2016: Paresh Mathur, M.Tech, thesis "Universal Approach Towards Self Calibration of Optical Tweezers and its Application as a Nanoprobe". Now Engineer, TSMC
- 2015: Ajitesh Kumar, PhD, thesis "Probing Molecular Dynamics in Condensed Phase by Spectrally Resolved Photon Echo Spectroscopy". Now ONGC
- 2014: Sandeep Kumar Maurya, PhD, thesis "Modulation of Nonlinear Optical Properties of Molecules in Condensed Phase with Femtosecond Laser Pulses". Now Assistant Professor, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics · The Guo China-US Photonics Laboratory
- 2014: Pardeep Kumar, PhD, thesis "Thermal Lens Study of Strong Absorbing Samples with Femtosecond Laser Pulse Train". Now RIKEN Molecular Spectroscopy Lab
- 2014: Dipak Kumar Das, PhD, thesis "Exploring the Effect of Molecular Environment on the Photophysical Aspects of Laser Induced Processes". Now Assistant Professor, GLA University, Mathura, India
- 2013: Swati Bhugra, M.Tech, thesis "Higher-Order Phase Modulation Formats for BB84 QKD Systems"
- 2012: Shanky Jain, M.Tech, thesis "Algorithmic Approach to Better Image Analysis of Microscopic and Satellite Images". Now Scientist, Indian Space Research Organization
- 2012: Gautam Kumar Shaw, M.Tech, thesis "Intercepting a travelling grating in space: towards Free-space optical communication". Now Ph.D., IIT Madras
- 2010: Tapas Goswami, PhD, thesis "Controlling laser induced photochemistry in supersonic molecular beam and probing ultrafast dynamics in liquid phase". Now Assistant Professor, UPES India
- 2010: Indrajit Bhattacharyya, PhD, thesis "Femtosecond Non-linear and Thermo-optical Spectroscopy for Studying Chemical Systems"
- 2010: Arijit De, PhD, thesis "Spatio-temporal control in laser-scanning fluorescence microscopy and optical trapping". Now Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Mohali
- 2010: Varun Singh, M.Tech, thesis "Electronically Synchronizing High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Lasers for Spectroscopic Applications"
- 2009: Venkatnarayan Ramanathan, PhD, thesis "Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Selected Organic Molecules in Supersonic Jet Expansion". Now Assistant Professor, IIT-BHU, India
- 2009: Karthick Kumar, PhD, thesis "Development of Ultrafast Multidimensional Optical Spectroscopy in Solution Phase". Now Optical Physicist, Forbes Marshall, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- 2009: Amit Nag, PhD, thesis "Accurate Quantification and Control of Two-Photon Processes". Now Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India
- 2009: Nidhi Gupta, M.Tech, thesis "Development of Optical Visibility Meter"
- 2009: Aveek Dutta, M.Tech, thesis "Towards the construction of an automated two dimensional optical spectrometer using femtosecond pulse shaper". Now Scientist-D, DRDO, Bangalore
- 2008: Partha Biswas, PhD, thesis "Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Aromatic Molecules with Large-Amplitude Vibrations"
- 2008: Prasad Arvind Chaphekar, M.Tech, thesis "Construction and Characterization of a Computer Controlled Acousto-optic Modulator based Femtosecond Pulse Shaper". Now Deputy Director (Income Tax)
- 2007: Shekhar Priyadarshi, M.Tech, thesis "Structure Property Relationship in Femtosecond 1560nm induced Nonlinearity"
Student news
2020
New members!!
Extending a warm welcome to the lab’s newest postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Amit Kumar Mishra, a recipient of an institute fellowship, who has worked on thermal conductivity enhancements, and Sandip Paul, who has joined the PhD program to delve deeper into femtosecond spectroscopy
Congratulations Dr. Soumendra!!!
Prof. Goswami and the lab wish the best to the newly minted Dr. Soumendra Nath Bandyopadhyay, who successfully defended his thesis on the Application of Femtosecond Optical Tweezers towards the understanding of complex systems. Dr. Bandyopadhyay has gone on to an assistant professorship.