Sonaly Goswami

Project Scientist

Education / Work History

M. Sc., Jadavpur University, Kolkata
B. Sc., Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Visits

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, October 2025 to July 2026, during Prof. Debabrata Goswami’s Fulbright-Nehru fellowship at the Center for Bits and Atoms
Brown University, Providence, November 2025, with Prof. Debabrata Goswami for his lecture
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Gruebele group), two months, 2023, with Prof. Debabrata Goswami
University of Iceland (host: Prof. Hannes Jonsson), two weeks, 2023, with Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Research Interests

Thermal Lens
Nonlinear Optics

Publications

These include only those published in our lab.

Systematic Study of Third-Order Optical Nonlinearities in CS₂-Based Liquid Ternary Mixtures: Thermal Lens Effects and Weak Two-Photon Absorption in Toluene. R. K. Gupta, S. Kant, S. Goswami, and D. Goswami, ChemistrySelect 11(16), (2026)

BibTeX: @article{guptaSystematicStudyThird2026,
  title = {Systematic Study of Third-Order Optical Nonlinearities in CS₂-Based Liquid Ternary Mixtures: Thermal Lens Effects and Weak Two-Photon Absorption in Toluene},
  author = {Gupta, Rahul Kumar and Kant, Surya and Goswami, Sonaly and Goswami, Debabrata},
  year = {2026},
  month = apr,
  journal = {ChemistrySelect},
  volume = {11},
  number = {16},
  doi = {10.1002/slct.202600059},
  urldate = {2026-10-03}
}

Compositional Analysis of Fragrance Accords Using Femtosecond Thermal Lens Spectroscopy. R. Goswami, A. K. Rawat, S. Goswami, and D. Goswami, (arXiv:2503.20431), (2025)

BibTeX: @misc{goswamiCompositionalAnalysisFragrance2025a,
  title = {Compositional Analysis of Fragrance Accords Using Femtosecond Thermal Lens Spectroscopy},
  author = {Goswami, Rohit and Rawat, Ashwini Kumar and Goswami, Sonaly and Goswami, Debabrata},
  year = {2025},
  month = mar,
  number = {arXiv:2503.20431},
  eprint = {2503.20431},
  primaryclass = {physics},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2503.20431},
  urldate = {2025-03-27},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  langid = {english}
}

Compositional Analysis of Fragrance Accords Using Femtosecond Thermal Lens Spectroscopy. R. Goswami, A. K. Rawat, S. Goswami, and D. Goswami, Chemistry – an Asian Journal 20(17), e00521 (2025)

BibTeX: @article{goswamiCompositionalAnalysisFragrance2025,
  title = {Compositional Analysis of Fragrance Accords Using Femtosecond Thermal Lens Spectroscopy},
  author = {Goswami, Rohit and Rawat, Ashwini Kumar and Goswami, Sonaly and Goswami, Debabrata},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Chemistry -- an Asian Journal},
  volume = {20},
  number = {17},
  pages = {e00521},
  issn = {1861-471X},
  doi = {10.1002/asia.202500521},
  urldate = {2025-10-05},
  copyright = {\copyright{} 2025 Wiley-VCH GmbH},
  langid = {english}
}

Discerning the content and quality of alcoholic beverages using femtosecond thermal lens spectroscopy. S. Goswami, in ACS Meeting Abstracts (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2024)

BibTeX: @inproceedings{goswamiDiscerningContentQuality2024,
  title = {Discerning the content and quality of alcoholic beverages using femtosecond thermal lens spectroscopy},
  booktitle = {ACS Meeting Abstracts},
  author = {Goswami, Sonaly},
  year = {2024},
  month = sep,
  publisher = {American Chemical Society (ACS)},
  doi = {10.1021/scimeetings.5c10775},
  urldate = {2026-10-03}
}

Inferring Multicomponent Properties Through Thermal Lens. R. Goswami, S. Goswami, and D. Goswami, Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2024)

BibTeX: @article{goswamiInferringMulticomponentProperties2024,
  title = {Inferring {{Multicomponent Properties Through Thermal Lens}}},
  author = {Goswami, Rohit and Goswami, Sonaly and Goswami, Debabrata},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Bulletin of the American Physical Society},
  publisher = {APS},
  urldate = {2024-03-24}
}

Unified Software Design Patterns for Simulated Annealing. R. Goswami, R. S., A. Goswami, S. Goswami, and D. Goswami, (arXiv:2302.02811), (2023)

BibTeX: @misc{goswamiUnifiedSoftwareDesign2023,
  title = {Unified {{Software Design Patterns}} for {{Simulated Annealing}}},
  author = {Goswami, Rohit and S., Ruhila and Goswami, Amrita and Goswami, Sonaly and Goswami, Debabrata},
  year = {2023},
  month = feb,
  number = {arXiv:2302.02811},
  eprint = {2302.02811},
  primaryclass = {physics},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  urldate = {2023-02-10},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  annotation = {GSCC: 0000000}
}

Chapter 7 - Ultrafast Laser Induced Photothermal Spectroscopy. S. Goswami and D. Goswami, in Photoacoustic and Photothermal Spectroscopy, S. N. Thakur, V. N. Rai, and J. P. Singh, eds. (Elsevier, 2023), pp. 155–184

BibTeX: @incollection{goswamiChapter7Ultrafast2023,
  title = {Chapter 7 - {{Ultrafast}} Laser Induced Photothermal Spectroscopy},
  booktitle = {Photoacoustic and {{Photothermal Spectroscopy}}},
  author = {Goswami, Sonaly and Goswami, Debabrata},
  editor = {Thakur, Surya N. and Rai, Virendra N. and Singh, Jagdish P.},
  year = {2023},
  month = jan,
  pages = {155--184},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/B978-0-323-91732-2.00022-7},
  urldate = {2023-07-28},
  isbn = {978-0-323-91732-2},
  langid = {english},
  annotation = {GSCC: 0000000}
}

Intermediate Representations for Quantum Computing. R. Goswami, S. Goswami, and D. Goswami, in APS March Meeting Abstracts (2023), 2023, pp. RR08–004

BibTeX: @inproceedings{goswamiIntermediateRepresentationsQuantum2023,
  title = {Intermediate {{Representations}} for {{Quantum Computing}}},
  booktitle = {{{APS March Meeting Abstracts}}},
  author = {Goswami, Rohit and Goswami, Sonaly and Goswami, Debabrata},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {2023},
  pages = {RR08--004},
  urldate = {2024-03-24}
}

Reproducible High Performance Computing without Redundancy with Nix. R. Goswami, R. S., A. Goswami, S. Goswami, and D. Goswami, in 2022 Seventh International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC) (2022), pp. 238–242

BibTeX: @inproceedings{goswamiReproducibleHighPerformance2022,
  title = {Reproducible {{High Performance Computing}} without {{Redundancy}} with {{Nix}}},
  booktitle = {2022 {{Seventh International Conference}} on {{Parallel}}, {{Distributed}} and {{Grid Computing}} ({{PDGC}})},
  author = {Goswami, Rohit and S., Ruhila and Goswami, Amrita and Goswami, Sonaly and Goswami, Debabrata},
  year = {2022},
  month = nov,
  pages = {238--242},
  issn = {2573-3079},
  doi = {10.1109/PDGC56933.2022.10053342},
  annotation = {GSCC: 0000000 \\
  0 citations (Crossref) [2024-05-28]}
}

Detecting In-Situ Phase Separation with Femtosecond Thermal Lens Spectroscopy to Map COVID-19 Transmission. S. Goswami, S. Singhal, and D. Goswami, in OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 2021 (AIS, FTS, HISE, SENSORS, ES) (2021), Paper AM2D.6 (Optica Publishing Group, 2021), p. AM2D.6

BibTeX: @inproceedings{goswamiDetectingInsituPhase2021,
  title = {Detecting In-Situ Phase Separation with Femtosecond Thermal Lens Spectroscopy to Map {{COVID-19}} Transmission},
  booktitle = {{{OSA Optical Sensors}} and {{Sensing Congress}} 2021 ({{AIS}}, {{FTS}}, {{HISE}}, {{SENSORS}}, {{ES}}) (2021), {{Paper AM2D}}.6},
  author = {Goswami, Sonaly and Singhal, Sumit and Goswami, Debabrata},
  year = {2021},
  month = jul,
  pages = {AM2D.6},
  publisher = {Optica Publishing Group},
  doi = {10.1364/AIS.2021.AM2D.6},
  urldate = {2025-03-19},
  copyright = {\copyright{} 2021 The Author(s)},
  langid = {english}
}

Arthur Ashkin (1922–2020). S. Goswami and D. Goswami, Current Science 120(4), 726–728 (2020)

BibTeX: @article{goswamiArthurAshkin192220202020,
  title = {Arthur {{Ashkin}} (1922--2020)},
  author = {Goswami, Sonaly and Goswami, Debabrata},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {Current Science},
  volume = {120},
  number = {4},
  pages = {726--728},
  issn = {0028-0836, 1476-4687},
  langid = {english},
  annotation = {GSCC: 0000017 \\
  00000}
}

Sensitive Detection of Phase Separation with Femtosecond Thermal Lens Spectroscopy. S. Goswami, S. Singhal, A. Banerjee, and D. Goswami, in 2019 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP) (2019), pp. 1–2

BibTeX: @inproceedings{goswamiSensitiveDetectionPhase2019,
  title = {Sensitive {{Detection}} of {{Phase Separation}} with {{Femtosecond Thermal Lens Spectroscopy}}},
  booktitle = {2019 {{Workshop}} on {{Recent Advances}} in {{Photonics}} ({{WRAP}})},
  author = {Goswami, Sonaly and Singhal, Sumit and Banerjee, Arup and Goswami, Debabrata},
  year = {2019},
  month = dec,
  pages = {1--2},
  issn = {null},
  doi = {10.1109/WRAP47485.2019.9013833},
  annotation = {GSCC: 0000001 \\
  1 citations (Crossref) [2024-05-28]}
}

Molecular Size and Mass Sensitive Femtosecond Thermal Spectrometer. S. Singhal, S. Goswami, A. Banerjee, and D. Goswami, in 2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC) (2019), pp. 1–3

BibTeX: @inproceedings{singhalMolecularSizeMass2019,
  title = {Molecular {{Size}} and {{Mass Sensitive Femtosecond Thermal Spectrometer}}},
  booktitle = {2019 {{URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference}} ({{AP-RASC}})},
  author = {Singhal, Sumit and Goswami, Sonaly and Banerjee, A. and Goswami, Debabrata},
  year = {2019},
  month = mar,
  pages = {1--3},
  doi = {10/gf5mqh},
  annotation = {GSCC: 0000002 \\
  1 citations (Crossref) [2024-05-28]\\
  00000}
}