SPIE-IISc Chapter Report 2018

About SPIE-IISc Chapter:

Since the inauguration of the SPIE-IISc chapter in August 2010, the chapter has been successful

in regularly conducting educational and technical talks and events by eminent speakers. In this

report the SPIE-IISc chapter activities for the year, 2018 are presented.

The Executive Committee 2017-18 was composed of:

Name Officer Email SPIE ID#

Rohit Ramakrishnan President rohit.k.ramakrishnan@gmail.com 3655891

Archana K Vice-President archana.benkinkare@gmail.com 4102765

Krishna M Secretary vgra.krish@gmail.com 4090009

Shafeek A Samad Treasurer shafeek.celos@gmail.com 4035344

All of them are Research Scholars at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Photonics area.

New officers will be selected from the new members and informed accordingly.

Faculty Advisor:

Prof. T. Srinivas (SPIE Membership No.327086)

Associate Professor, ECE Dept, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012

email: tsrinu@iisc.ac.in

List of Members

1 Lal Krishna A. S

2 Ankitha Bangera

3 Ankur Dwivedi

4 Pankaj Jain

5 Nagarjun Katta Pradeep

6 Archana Kaushalram

7 Jyotsna Konkada Manattayil

8 Sunilkumar Kudilil

9 Viphreto Mere

10 Anand N

11 Sinan Nizar

12 B.S Vikram

13 Utham Pal

14 Abhishek Pathak

15 Ravindra Singh Pokharia

16 Arun Surendran

17 Shafeek A Samad

18 Rohit Ramakrishnan

19 Krishna M

20 Sruthi Menon

21 Sarthak Das

22 Priyank Sain (New Member)

23 Satisha RN (New Member)

24 Faheem Ahmed (New Member)

25 Suman Chatterjee (New Member)

26 Santosh Kumar (Alumni Member)

27 Rekha Gautam (Alumni Member)

28 Rajan Kanhirodan (Alumni Member)

29 Mayanglambam Singh (Alumni Member)

30 Srinivas Talabattula (Advisor)

We have more than 30 members in IISc chapter. Membership drives to enrol new students were

conducted. With lot of new students interested to join and another few interested in renewing

their old SPIE memberships, we can proudly say that our strength is best in recent years. We

plan to enrol more students through promotional events.

Chapter Meetings: Some of the executive committee meetings were held on:

• Executive committee meeting on 9 January 2018

• New office members assumed charge

• Executive committee meeting on 16 January 2018

• To decide on financial planning and activities of the year

• Executive committee meeting on 10 April 2018

• To decide on SOAP 2018 and form the organising sub-committee

Chapter Activities:

To increase the involvement of the student members, we have a webpage for the Applied

Photonics Initiative, (API) IISc.

https://sites.google.com/site/appliedphotonicsiisc/spie-chapter.

A facebook group is managed, https://www.facebook.com/groups/spieosaiisc/ (Optics-

Groups-IISc) where all students working in the Optics and Photonics related areas can

coordinate and plan meetups etc. Updates on chapter events and other activities are regularly

posted online. An outlook group also has been created. api@iisc.ac.in

As per the previous report many activities in the areas of Quantum optics, Nonlinear Optics

and Nanophotonics were conducted. Following are the activities conducted and co-ordinated

by the SPIE-IISc student chapter in the year 2018. The members of the chapter have actively

contributed their time and effort in the organization and functioning of these activities.

Technical Activities

➢ International Day of Light 2018

The International day of Light was celebrated on May 16, 2018 by SPIE IISc chapter.

The SPIE IISc chapter along with OSA and IEEE Photonics Society Chapters of IISc

decided to celebrate the day in the memory of Prof. A Selvarajan, a very illustrious

personality in the field of Photonics in Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and India.

Prof. A Selvarajan (1938-2017) was a faculty in Electrical Communication Engineering

Department of IISc from 1972 to 2000 and the Chairman of the ECE Department from

1995-1999. As the department chairman he was instrumental in leading the department

to Photonics era. He established the Photonics Research Laboratory in ECE and has the

distinction of developing and nurturing one of the very few groups in India working in

both theoretical and experimental areas of photonics. He was member of SPIE, OSA

and various professional bodies and played the key role in starting a biannual

international conference on Photonics in India, in 1991 and 1994, which is now

considered as the biggest and most prestigious photonics conference of the country.

He has held visiting positions in University of Uppsala, Sweden (1969-70), University

of Arizona, USA (1977-79), Technical university of Denmark (1986), University

College, London (1987) and International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy (1991,

1993). In 2015, Prof. Selvarajan along with his wife donated a sum of Two Million

Rupees to ECE Department to conduct research in Photonics.

Prof. A Selvarajan Memorial Lecture was given by Prof. Bishnu Pal (SPIE Fellow,

Bennette University) on the topic “Progress and Challenges in Fiber Optics and Optical

Communication”. He was also awarded Prof. Selvarajan Memorial Award 2017 for his

contribution to the field of optics and photonics. A photo exhibition was also conducted

as part of the celebration.

➢ Summer School (25-28 July 2018)

Summer school in Optics And Photonics (SOAP) has successfully completed two

editions in July 2018. The event is now our flagship program comprised of tutorials,

demos, lab visits, open talks, student posters and what not!

Summer School in Optics And Photonics (SOAP) 2018 http://www.iisc-soap.co.in/

Venue: Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall, Dept. of ECE, IISc

Summer school in Optics and Photonics was organized by Applied Photonics Initiative

(API), Indian Institute of Science. As the significant part of API, SPIE members had

put diligent effort in the organisation of the program.

This summer school was meant for graduate students, research scholars, post docs and

faculty members currently doing research or plan to do research in the area of optics

and photonics. The school brought together the experts in the field from India and

abroad and provide a platform for interaction with them and networking. Talks were

organised such that 4 hours each of basic and advanced lecturers in three focussed

topics were covered. SPIE Visiting Lecture was organised as part of SOAP. Selected

lectures including SPIE lectures were live telecasted inside IISc campus through LAN.

External participants also got chance to visit IISc labs and the class-100 clean room,

nano fabrication and characterisation facilities at the Centre for Nano Science and

Engineering. Hands on training sessions were conducted for participants in software

and hardware of optical engineering. This included software demo sessions conducted

by PR Lightcom and Lumerical and lab sessions conducted by Fiber Optica and Eagle

Photonics. The student poster session was also conducted as part of SOAP 2018 where

participants across India presented their research work. They were evaluated by IISc

faculty and were given feedback. The Best poster selected by the panel were awarded

cash prize. The new feature of SOAP 2018 was open invited talks where students and

early career professionals were given a chance to give talks before the IISc audience.

The session was open such that interested persons could contact the organisers for

giving talks, and a panel of faculty selected and invited a couple of experts among them

to give talks. Priority was given to early career professionals and certificates were also

given to them. On the third day there was a cultural programme followed by the

networking dinner

No. of speakers: 13; Total lecture hours: 19;

Attendees: 250+ (including online participants)

The list of Invited Speakers and their talks are given below:

Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk

Dr. Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn

National

Electronics and

Computer

Technology Center

(NECTEC) and

National Science

and Technology

Development

Agency (NSTDA)

Research Fellow,

Thailand

Agri-photonics

Dr. Suresh Subramaniam George Washington

university

Optical Networks

Dr. Rajappa Papannareddy Purdue university Optical Networks

Prof. Bishnu P. Pal

Bennette

University, Greater

Noida, U. P

Optical

Communications

and Sensors

Prof. K. Thyagarajan

Bennette

University, Greater

Noida, U. P

Quantum Optics

Prof. Vishnu Priye

Indian Institute of

Technology (ISM),

Dhanbad

Silicon Photonics

Prof. Anirban Pathak

Jaypee Institute of

Information

Technology (JIIT),

Noida

Quantum

Communications

Prof. Deepa Venkitesh

Indian Institute of

Technology Madras

(IITM)

Nonlinear Fiber

Optics

Prof. S. Ramasesha

Indian Institute of

Science (IISc),

Bangalore

Nonlinear Optics

Dr. Supradeepa V. R

Indian Institute of

Science (IISc),

Bangalore

High power Fiber

lasers

Dr. Varun Raghunathan Indian Institute of

Science (IISc),

Bangalore

Nonlinear Optics

Dr. E.S Shivaleela

Indian Institute of

Science (IISc),

Bangalore

Optical Networks

Dr. Meena Dasan DRDO Microwave

Photonics

Technical Lectures/Workshops

➢ Post Quantum Cryptography – Mike Hamburg, Rambus Inc (18th December 2017)

➢ Computational Photonics – Dr. Mukul Agarwal, Stanford University (14th February 2018)

➢ Searching for Local Symmetry in Data – Dr. Kallol Roy, GeorgiaTech (22nd February

2018)

➢ Quantum Internet: Towards Singularity – Dr. Peter Rohde, UTS (8th May 2018)

➢ SPIE Travelling Lecturer Program: Dr. Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn gave two talks -

“Photonics in Agriculture” and “Pushing your Photonic ideas into innovation using

crowd funding” on Wednesday 25-07-18, at Golden Jubilee Hall, Dept of ECE. The

event was live streamed around the campus. (25th July 2018)

Popular Talks

➢ Einstein’s Messengers – Prof. Parameswaran Ajith, ICTS Bangalore; Member of the

LIGO Discovery Team. (9th March 2018)

➢ Topping the Higgs Boson – Dr. Rohin Narayan, CERN, Geneva; Member of the

ATLAS Collaboration that co-discovered the Higgs Boson (7th August 2018)

Outreach Activities

➢ March 10, 2018

IISc Open day Activities: https://www.iisc.ac.in/open-day-2018-when-iisc-unveils-its-research-to-the-public/

API and SPIE has taken active role in organising live demonstrations during the IISc-

Open day in various departments around the campus including Dept of ECE, Centre for

Nanoscience, Dept of Physics and Dept of Instrumentation and Applied Physics.

Participation in SPIE Global Activities

• SPIE Chapter Advisor Dr. Srinivas Talabattula, Chapter President Mr. Rohit

Ramakrishan and Treasurer Mr. Shafeek A Samad participated in SPIE Photonics

Europe 2018 at Strasbourg, France and presented papers.

• Mr. Shafeek A Samad, represented the chapter in the SPIE Leadership Conference

during SPIE Optics + Photonics 2018 at San Diego USA with the SPIE Officers Travel

Grant.

Some of the papers presented by the student members at various SPIE events in 2018:

1. Rohit K Ramakrishnan, Varun Raghunathan and Srinivas Talabattula, “"Single and

multidimensional integrated optic photon sources for quantum communication", Proc.

SPIE 10674, Quantum Technologies, 106741J (2018)

2. Shafeek Abdul Samad, Badrinarayana Tarimala, Gopalkrishna M. Hegde, Srinivas

Talabattula, "Sub-nanometer narrow bandwidth gratings using deeply etched SOI rib

waveguides", Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 10686, 1068617 (2018)

3. Arun Surendran, Vishal Choudhury, Velpula Balaswamy, V. R. Supradeepa, "Simple

modules for high efficiency conversion of standard ytterbium doped fiber lasers into

octave spanning continuous-wave supercontinuum sources", Proceedings of SPIE Vol.

10512, 105121W (2018)

4. Santosh Aparanji, Velpula Balaswamy, Arun Surendran, V. R. Supradeepa, "Raman

based power combining and wavelength conversion of high power ytterbium fiber

lasers", Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 10512, 105121U (2018

5. Roopa Prakash, Vishal Choudhury, Arun Surendran, V. R. Supradeepa, "Low power

generation of equalized broadband CW supercontinua using a novel technique

incorporating modulation instability of line broadened pump", Proceedings of SPIE

Vol. 10528, 1052817 (2018)

6. Velpula Balaswamy, Santosh Aparanji, Arun Surendran, V. R. Supradeepa, "High-

power tunable grating-free cascaded Raman fiber lasers", Proceedings of SPIE Vol.

10528, 1052816 (2018)

7. Velpula Balaswamy, Santosh Aparanji, Arun Surendran, V. R. Supradeepa, "High-

power tunable grating-free cascaded Raman fiber lasers", Proceedings of SPIE Vol.

10528, 1052816 (2018)

8. Santosh Aparanji, Velpula Balaswamy, Arun Surendran, V. R. Supradeepa,

"Observation of a rainbow of visible colors in a near infrared cascaded Raman fiber

laser and its novel application as a diagnostic tool for length resolved spectral analysis",

Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 10516, 105160M (2018)

9. B. S. Vikram, Roopa Prakash, Nagarjun Katta Pradeep, Shankar Kumar Selvaraja, V.

R. Supradeepa, "A versatile, C-band spanning, high repetition rate, cascaded four wave

mixing based multi-wavelength source", Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 10516, 105161K

(2018)

10. Viphretuo Mere, Rakshitha Kallega, Akshay K. Naik, Rudra Pratap, Shankar Kumar

Selvaraja, "Silicon photonics based on-chip vibrometer", Proceedings of SPIE Vol.

10545, 105450M (2018)

Planned Activities

We have planned Summer school in Optics and Photonics (SOAP 2019), focusing on the topics

(not restricted to) quantum optics and optical communication. This year’s SOAP will feature

industry speakers talking about industry and academia. We intend to use SPIE Visiting lecture

programme towards it.

Various technical workshops are also planned.

Last year we could not visit schools for optics outreach activities due to various reasons. This

will be rectified this year. We have also planned more technical talks at various Educational

Institutions as outreach activity. A team of volunteers are ready for this.

The career guidane program for students in optics and photonics initiated last year will be taken

forward in association with the Placement Cell of the Institute.

Financial Position

Technical talks are open to all.

Major Workshops are charged for Non-members

Expenses usually shared with OSA and IEEE Chapters.

The account of the SPIE-IISc Students’ chapter is managed at Canara bank, IISc.

Income:

Opening Balance: Rs. 941 /-

Interest (Total): Rs.930/-

Annual Chapter grant: Rs. 56867/-

TOTAL – Rs. 58738/-

Expenditure:

SOAP 2018 Reg. kit Rs.15930/-

Open day activities Rs. 4450/-

International Day of Light 2018 (publicity + snacks + hall) Rs. 20000/-

Technical events (publicity + snacks + hall + misc) Rs. 8295/-

Popular talks (publicity + snacks + hall + misc) Rs. 5000/-

Banking charges Rs. 40

TOTAL Rs. 53715/-

Balance: Rs.5023/-

Pictures of SPIE-IISc Student Chapter activities

1. International Day of Light 2018 and Prof. A Selvarajan Memorial

Prof. Bishnu Pal delivering Prof. A Selvarajan Memorial Lecture on International Day of Light

Prof. A Selvarajan Memorial Award 2017 is awarded to Prof. Bishnu Pal by Prof. A Chockalingam,

Chairman of ECE Department, along with SPIE Chapter Advisor Prof. T Srinivas, who was a student

of Prof. A Selvarajan

SPIE Chapter Members with Prof. Bishnu Pal

2. Summer school in Optics And Photonics 2018 (SOAP 2018)

3. SPIE Visiting Lecturer Program

4. Technical Lectures

Talks on Post Quantum Cryptography, Computational Photonics and Quantum Internet

5. Popular Talks

Prof. Ajith Paramerswaran (Member of LIGO team) and Dr. Rohin Narayan (Member of ATLAS team,

CERN) explaining the scientific achievements to audience in IISc.

6. Participation in SPIE Events

Mr. Rohit Ramkrishnan and Mr. Shafeek Samad at SPIE Photonics Europe 2018, Strasbourg, France; Mr.

Shafeek with SPIE Student activities coordiantor Meagan All during the SPIE Optics + Photonics (2018).

7. Outreach Activities - IISc Open Day 2018

SPIE Chapter was active in IISc Open day with public talks, quizzes, optics demos etc.