DAE – BRNS

National Laser Symposium

December 19 – 21, 2001

 

 

PROGRAMME OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS

 

 

Venue :  New Auditorium Complex

 

 

 

 

December 19, 2001 (Wednesday)

 

 

INAUGURAL SESSION

 

Chief Guest :       Dr.G.S.Agarwal, Director, PRL

 

Presided by :        Dr.D.D.Bhawalkar, CAT, Indore

 

09.30 – 09.40        Welcome Address                              Sh.T.P.S.Nathan

                                                                                      Convener, NLS – 2001

 

09.40 – 09.50        Presidential Address                           Dr.D.D.Bhawalkar

 

09.50 – 10.20        Inaugural Address                              Dr.G.S.Agarwal

 

10.20 – 10.30        Vote of Thanks                                  Dr.A.K.Nath

                                                                                       Secretary, NLS – 2001

 

 

10.30 – 11.00                                     TEA

 

 

 

INVITED TALKS SESSION No. I

 

11.00 – 11.40        High Power lasers                                        Dr.Amitav Mallik

 

11.40 – 12.20        IISc. experiments on laser cooling/               Dr.V.Natarajan

                             trapping of atoms

 

12.20 – 13.00        Velocity selection of cold atoms                   Dr.S.R.Mishra

 

 

 

13.00 – 14.15                                     LUNCH

 

 

 

14.15 – 16.15        Contributed Papers : Poster Session – 1

 

Physics & Technology of Lasers

Laser Materials, Devices & Components

Laser based Instrumentation

Fibre Optics, Communication & Integrated Optics

Quantum Optics & Computation

Nonlinear Optics

Ultrafast Phenomena

Laser Spectroscopy

Laser Plasma Interaction

Applications of Lasers in Biology & Medicine

Applications of Lasers in Material Science

Applications of Lasers in Industry, Defence & Atmospheric Pollution Monitoring etc.

 

 

INVITED TALKS SESSION No. II

 

16.15 – 16.55        X-ray lasing in capillary discharge                 Prof.K.Kolacek

                             plasmas

 

16.55 – 17.35        Spatial & temporal evolution of photo           Dr.V.K.Mago

                             plasmas

 

17.35 – 18.05        Tunable diode laser technology from            Dr.Wilhem Kaenders

                             UV to NIR with upto 1W

 

 

 

December 20, 2001 (Thursday)

 

 

INVITED TALKS SESSION No. III

 

09.15 – 09.55        Application of wave packet dynamics           Prof.S.Umapathy

                             to laser Raman spectroscopy

 

09.55 – 10.35        Structure of some hydrogen bonded             Dr.N.Guchhait

                             clusters: Investigated by LIF & double

                             resonance spectroscopy in jet

 

10.35 – 11.15        Imaging through turbid media                       Dr.H.Ramachandran

 

 

11.15 – 11.45                                     TEA

 

 

 

INVITED TALKS SESSION No. IV

 

11.45 – 12.25        Growth of oxide crystals for ferroelectric               Prof.K.Kitamura

                             domain engineering

 

12.25 – 13.05        Growth & Optical Characterisation of                    Dr.R.Jayavel

                             Semi Organic Non Linear Optical

                             Crystals

 

 

13.05 – 14.15                                     LUNCH

 

 

14.15 – 16.15        Contributed Papers : Poster Session - 2

 

Physics & Technology of Lasers

Laser Materials, Devices & Components

Laser based Instrumentation

Fibre Optics, Communication & Integrated Optics

Nonlinear Optics

Laser Spectroscopy

Laser Plasma Interaction

Applications of Lasers in Biology & Medicine

Applications of Lasers in Material Science

Applications of Lasers in Industry, Defence & Atmospheric Pollution Monitoring etc.

 

 

16.15 – 18.00        Ph.D. Thesis Presentation

 

1.     Some Studies on Free-Electron Laser Oscillators

Vinit Kumar

 

2.     Development of a Repetitive Widely Tunable Single Mode TEA CO2 Laser, its Application on NH3 Laser and Related Studies

J.Padma Nilaya

 

3.     Investigation of Radial Profiles and Annular Shape of Output Beam in Copper Vapour Laser

S.N. Keshatti

 

4.     Spectroscopic properties of Pr3+, Sm3+, Eu3+ and Dy3+ Ions in Lithium Borate and Lithium Fuoroborate Glasses

P. Babu

 

5.     Isotope Selective Studies in Resonance Ionisation Mass Spectrometry

M. Sankari

 

 

18.00 – 18.15                                     TEA

 

 

18.15 – 19.15        ILA General Body Meeting - 2001

 

 

 

December 21, 2001 (Thursday)

 

 

 

INVITED TALKS SESSION No. V

 

09.15 – 09.55        Soliton Based Optical Communication           Dr.K.Porsezian

                             Systems

 

09.55 – 10.35        Recent trends in high bit rate fibre optic        Dr.R.Vijaya

                             communications

 

10.35 – 11.15        Overview of laser in NDT                             Dr.C.Babu Rao

 

 

11.15 – 11.45                                     TEA

 

 

 

11.45 – 13.05        Ph.D. Thesis Presentations

 

6.     Static and Dynamical Properties of Cross-linked Networks and Gels

Jitendra Sharma

 

7.     Micro and Nanoindentation Studies of Some III-V and II-VI Compound Semiconductor Alloys

R. Navamathavan

 

8.     Circuit Simulation of Optical Bistability in Semiconductor Lasers

M. Ganesh Madhan

 

9.     Studies on the Nucleation, Growth and Characterization of Semi-Organic (LAP) and Organic (DAST) Nonlinear Optical Crystals

R. Mohan Kumar

 

 

13.05 – 14.15                                     LUNCH

 

 

 

14.15 – 15.45        Contributed Papers : Poster Session – 3

 

Physics & Technology of Lasers

Laser Materials, Devices & Components

Laser based Instrumentation

Applications of Lasers in Biology & Medicine

Applications of Lasers in Industry, Defence & Atmospheric Pollution Monitoring etc.

Shorter Abstracts

Post deadline papers

 

 

15.45 – 16.00                                     TEA

 

 

 

16.00 – 17.00                  Award Ceremony & Concluding Session