News: Students
2023
Best Poster Award
The lab celebrates Deepak Kumar who received the best poster presentation award at the conference PHOTONICS 2023 at IISc Bangalore.
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.
Graduations
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- 2026: Surya Kant, PhD, thesis "Use of Nonlinear Optical and Photothermal Spectroscopic Approaches for Unravelling Synergism in Binary Liquids"
- 2026: Sumit Kumar Gupta, PhD, thesis "Unveiling Intermolecular Dynamics and Solvent Interactions Through Thermal Lens Spectroscopy"
- 2026: Subhajit Chakraborty, PhD, thesis "Exploring and Exploiting Local Refractive Anomalies in Liquids and Interfaces Using Photothermal Spectroscopic and Microscopic Approaches"
- 2026: Aman Sharma, PhD, thesis "Advanced Thermal Lens Spectroscopy: Optimizing Sensitivity for Exploring Molecular Dynamics and Application Perspectives"
- 2024: Krishna Kant Singh, PhD, thesis "Beyond Conventional Optical Tweezers: Comparative Analysis of Femtosecond Laser Tweezers At Different Repetition Rates for Optical Confinement Dynamics". Now Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Kassel
- 2024: Habib Ali, PhD, thesis "Unravelling Molecular Structure and Interactions Through Femtosecond Laser Induced Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy". Now Assistant Professor, Galgotias University
- 2024: Ajitesh Singh, PhD, thesis "Probing Molecular Interactions and Nonlinearities with Femtosecond Optical Tweezers". Now Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Optometry, Indiana University Bloomington
- 2023: Rohit Kumar Maurya, PhD. Now Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pt. Prithi Nath (P.G.) College, Kanpur
- 2022: Ashwini Kumar Rawat, PhD, thesis "Application of High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Laser Induced Photo-thermal Spectroscopy for Probing Molecular Interactions and Properties". Now Postdoctoral Researcher, Westlake University
- 2021: Rahul Kumar Gupta, PhD, thesis "Effect of Intermolecular Interactions on Femtosecond Nonlinear Studies in Liquids"
- 2020: Soumendra Nath Bandyopadhyay, PhD, thesis "Application of Femtosecond Optical Tweezers towards Understanding of Complex Systems"
- 2020: Umang Chaturvedi, M.Tech
- 2019: Sumit Singhal, PhD, thesis "Femtosecond Laser Pulse Train Induced Photothermal Lensing in Nonlinear Optical Medium". Now Research Associate, HUN-REN Biological Research Center
- 2019: Tushar Gaur, M.Tech, thesis "Discerning the Effects of Thermal Nonlinearity in Optical Trapping". Now Staff Engineer, Synopsys
- 2018: Yogendra Yadav, PhD
- 2018: Shirshendu Dinda, PhD, thesis "Engineering Optical Spatiotemporal Properties to Impact Femtosecond Nonlinearities: Case Studies and Implementations". Now Research Scientist, Helmholtz-Institute Ulm
- 2018: Rohit Kumar Yadav, M.Tech. Now R&D Member, TVS Motors
- 2018: Anushka Jha, B.Tech.-M.Tech., thesis "Active Microrheology of Soft Materials Using Optical Tweezers". Now Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University
- 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 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIEST Shibpur
- 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"
- 2016: Debjit Roy, PhD, thesis "Control and application of two photon fluorescence in microscopy and optical tweezers". Now Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University in St. Louis
- 2016: Paresh Mathur, M.Tech, thesis "Universal Approach Towards Self Calibration of Optical Tweezers and its Application as a Nanoprobe". Now Engineer, TSMC
- 2015: Pardeep Kumar, PhD, thesis "Thermal Lens Study of Strong Absorbing Samples with Femtosecond Laser Pulse Train". Now R&D Senior Photonics Engineer, Spiden Ag
- 2015: 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
- 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, Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology
- 2013: Swati Bhugra, M.Tech, thesis "Higher-Order Phase Modulation Formats for BB84 QKD Systems"
- 2013: Shanky Jain, M.Tech, thesis "Algorithmic Approach to Better Image Analysis of Microscopic and Satellite Images". Now Scientist, Indian Space Research Organization
- 2013: Gautam Kumar Shaw, M.Tech, thesis "Intercepting a travelling grating in space: towards Free-space optical communication". Now Ph.D., IIT Madras
- 2011: Tapas Goswami, PhD, thesis "Controlling laser induced photochemistry in supersonic molecular beam and probing ultrafast dynamics in liquid phase". Now Senior Associate Professor, UPES
- 2011: Indrajit Bhattacharyya, PhD, thesis "Femtosecond Non-linear and Thermo-optical Spectroscopy for Studying Chemical Systems"
- 2010: Karthick Kumar, PhD, thesis "Development of Ultrafast Multidimensional Optical Spectroscopy in Solution Phase". Now Optical Physicist, Forbes Marshall, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- 2010: Arijit De, PhD, thesis "Spatio-temporal control in laser-scanning fluorescence microscopy and optical trapping". Now Associate 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 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
- 2009: Amit Nag, PhD, thesis "Accurate Quantification and Control of Two-Photon Processes". Now 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: Montu Kumar Hazra, PhD, thesis "Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Selected Nucleic Acid-Base Pair Analogues". Now Associate Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
- 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"