DAE-BRNS National Laser Symposium, 2003

Technical Programme: NLS-2003

 

Date 22.12.2003

 

08.30   - 09.15:            Registration

09.15   - 11.00:            Inaugural Session

11.00   - 11.30:            Tea Break

11.30   - 13.30 :           1st  Session: Invited Talks

                                    1. Spectral Diagnosis of Disease         Prof. R R Dasari, MIT, USA

                                    2. Properties of Terahertz Lasers       Prof. James Kolodzey,

U of Delaware, Newark, DE

3. Nonlinear Optical Effects in           Prof. C P G Vallabhan,

   Metal  Nanoparticles                       CUSAT, Cochin

4. Optical Computing                         Dr. A K Dutta,  Calcutta University

 

13.30   - 14.30             Lunch Break

14.30   - 16.30             1st Parallel Session: Invited Talks

Parallel Session : 1A 

Lasers & Applications

Parallel Session : 1B

Quantum & Nonlinear Optics

 

1. Laser Material Processing : Application   

     development at ARCI:

     Dr. S V Joshi, ARCI, Hyderabad

 

2.OPO:Advanced Tunable Laser Sources:

        Dr. R C Bapna, BARC, Mumbai

 

 

 

3. Development of a Table-Top-Terawatt 

  Nd:glass Lasersystem & Ultra short  pulse   diagnosis:

Sri.A K Sharma, CAT,Indore

 

4. Micromanipulation with Laser:

    Sri. S K Mohanti, CAT, Indore

 

 

1. Quantum Optics of Bose condensates:      

    Dr. Bimalendu Deb, PRL, Ahmedabad

 

 

2. Dynamic Laser Light Scattering: Recent  

    Advances & Applications in Soft   

   Condense Matter:   Dr. B V R Tata,

    IGCAR, Kalpakkam

 

3. Nonlinear Optics in Quasi-one-dimensional Mott insulators:

     Dr. Haranath Ghosh, CAT, Indore

 

 

4.   Ultra slow light:

      Dr. TN  Dey, PRL, Ahmedabad

 

16.30 – 17.00              Tea Break

17.00 – 19.00              Special Session

 

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Date 23.12.2003

 

09.00   - 11.00             2nd  Session : Invited Talks                          

1.      Status of Nonlinear Material Development for 8-16 Micron Region  :

Prof. G C Bhar, Burdwan University

 

2.      Novel tunable MID IR sources & their Spectroscopic applications :  

Prof. K Vodopyanov, Stanford University

 

3.      Lasers for Nanotechnology: Pulsed  Laser Deposition of

     Semiconductor  quantum  structure:

Dr. L M Kukreja, CAT, Indore  

    

4.      Understanding the Microstructure Evolution during Laser

      Surface Alloying  :

      Prof. K Chattopadhyay, IISc, Bangalore

 

11.00 - 11.30             Tea Break

11.30 - 13.30             2nd Parallel Session: Invited Talks

Parallel Session: 2A

Laser Plasma Interaction

Parallel Session: 2B

Laser Materials & Processing

 

1. Nuclear physics experiments with ultra

   intense lasers: Dr. L Dhareshwar, BARC

 

2. Hot Plasma from cold clusters & micro

   droplets: Dr. M Krishnamurthy, TIFR.

 

3.Simulations of hydrodynamics and

  energy transport effects in laser driven

  plasmas: Dr. N K Gupta, BARC.

 

 

1. Laser Materials Processing-Recent

    activities at BARC: Sri G L Goswami

 

2.   Laser Material Processing:

       Prof. I Manna, IIT, KGP

 

3 Laser Assisted Synthesis & Processing of

    Semiconductor Materials:

    Dr. S Basu, IITKGP

 

4. Near Perfect Stoichiometric Single

  Domain LiNbO3 crystals for Laser  

  Applications: Dr. R V A Murthy, NPL           

                       

13.30   - 14.30             Lunch Break

14.30      - 16.30             1nd Poster Session

16.30   - 18.30             Parallel Sessions

 

Ph D Presentation 1st Session

 

 

Session : Lasers Material  Processing

 

1.Soumika Munshi : Optoelectronic implementation of a computing system for pattern identification

 

2. M. Umadevi,: Spectroscopic investigations on molecular dynamics in micro-heterogeneous media

 

3. P KGupta : Second and third order optical nonlinearties in doped piezoelectric semiconductors

4. Sheetal Kapoor :Coherent transient optical processes in semiconductor quantum wells and quantum wires with multiple valence subbands
 

5. Harneet Kaur Gahir: Squeezed state generation in nonlinear optical materials

 

6. Jitendra Kumar: Ultrashort pulse propagation analysis in optical fibers and semiconductor wave guides

 

1. Mathematical modeling of laser material  

    joining:

    Dr. S. Chakraborti, IIT KGP

 

2. Parametric study of Blown Powder Laser

    Cladding & Alloying Process using

    Computer Models:

     Dr. S Roy , IIT KGP

 

3.  Laser Surface Engineering:

    Dr. J D Mazumdar, IIT KGP

 

4. Laser welding of Steel sheets- Current 

   Status & Issues:  

  Dr. D Bhattacharjee,  Tata Steel, Jamshedpur

 

 

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Date 24.12.2003

 

09.00   - 10.00             3rd   Session: Invited Talks

        1.  Energy Transfer Processes near Reflecting Surfaces:

            Prof. A L Verma,  NEHU

                                2.  Organic- Semicaraozone Family Crystals for NLO

                                     Applications- A New Interest: 

                                      Prof. P Ramasamy, Anna University

 

10.00   - 10.30             Tea Break

10.30   - 1230              Ph. D Thesis Presentation 2nd Session

1. R. Ganapathy:           Studies on pulse propagation in single mode optical fibers

2. Sanjib Chatterjee:     Optical processing of solid state laser materials, fabrication and   characterization of super smooth   optical surfaces

3.M. Ushamani:             Studies on photosensitive polymers for

optical recording

4.  Om Prakash:             A comparative study on second harmonic

generation of copper vapor laser with various types of resonators

5. K. Venkatakrishna:   Optical pathology and proteomics approach

   for early diagnosis of oral cancer
6. J. Ebenezar /             Optical biopsy of cancer using native

    P. Aruna                     fluorescence spectroscopy
 

12.30  -13.30               Lunch Break

 

13.30 –15.30               2nd Poster Session

 

15.30–16.00                Concluding / Valedictory  Session

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