Dr. C.S. Narayanamurthy is an Outstanding Professor at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) and a distinguished researcher in optics. He earned his Ph.D. from IIT Madras and has held several prestigious fellowships, including the BOYSCAST Fellowship at Imperial College London (1990-1991) for research on photorefractive holography using Bismuth Silicon Oxide (BSO). He was an ICTP Regular Associate (1997-2002), conducting multiple research visits to the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy, on Fourier and photorefractive optics. He also served as an INSA-DAAD Exchange Fellow at the Institut für Technische Optik, University of Stuttgart, Germany (2006), and as a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Optical Research and Education (CORE), Utsunomiya University, Japan (2015).
Dr. Narayanamurthy’s contributions have earned him numerous accolades, including the Optical Society of India’s Distinguished Fellow (2021), the ICO Galileo Galilei Award (2022), and Fellowship of SPIE (2023).
Outstanding professor, Department of Physics
Research Interest : Holography, Optical coherence, Non-linear photorefractive optics, Optical testing, Interferometry, Electromagnetic theory, Adaptive optics (optical imaging through turbulance medium)
E-mail ID: murthy@iist.ac.in
Phone: +91-471-2568502
Dr. Dinesh N Naik is currently a faculty member at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST). He previously served as an INSPIRE faculty at the School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, India. He was also an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Institut für Technische Optik, University of Stuttgart, Germany, and a Researcher at the Department of Engineering Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.
Dr. Dinesh N Naik earned his Ph.D. in Optics from The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. He holds an M.Sc. in Physics with a specialization in Optics from the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
Associate professor, Department of Physics
Research Interest :Coherent & Incoherent Optics, Guided Wave Optics, Singular Optics, Adaptive Optics, Signal & Image Processing, Optical Interferometry, Wavefront sensing/reconstruction, Spectroscopy, Polarimetry, Holography, Tomography, Correloscopy
E-mail ID: dineshnnaik@iist.ac.in
Phone: +91-471-2568660
Associate professor, Department of Physics
Research Interest : Classical Optics, Quantum Optics, and Quantum Information Theory.
E-mail ID: solomonivan@iist.ac.in
Phone: +91-471-2568 653
Dr. Biswajit Pathak did his Postdoctoral Research at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK. His research work in the Soft Matter Photonics Laboratory in collaboration with Dynamic Optics and Photonics Laboratory involved development of a light modulator technology for controlling the spatio-temporal coherence of light source (EPSRC funded). Prior to this, he worked on a couple of projects as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Oxford that involved development of an MMF based endo-microscopy system (Dynamic Optics and Photonics Laboratory) and development of a programmable aperture-based imaging system for high resolution in-vivo imaging of the human retina in an AOSLO (Perception Laboratory). He also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow (for a short term) at the Physical Sciences Division of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India. Biswajit completed his PhD in the year 2017 in both theoretical and experimental optics from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
Ramanujan Fellow, Department of Physics
Research Interest : Adaptive Optics, Diffractive optics, Endo-Microscopy, Retinal Imaging, Holography.
E-mail ID: biswajitpathak@iist.ac.in
Phone: (+91) 7594819146
Current Members
PhD Students
Deepak
My research focuses on optical metrology techniques, with expertise in shearography, holography, and digital holographic microscopy, among other related areas.
Harikrishnan P
My research is dedicated to the investigation and advancement of profile measurement systems using multi-wavelength digital holography and interferometry.
Shouvik Sadhukhan
My primary research focuses on classical optics and electrodynamics. For my doctoral studies, I have chosen to work on Holographic Soliton Interaction and its Application in Turbulence-Impacted Optical Communication. My additional research interests include Classical Holography and Interferometry for Microscopy and Metrology, Polarimetry, Wavefront Engineering, Optical Imaging, Deep Learning-Based Optical Metrology, and Nonlinear Interferometry .
Sree Renjini R S
I am specializing in imaging through turbid media using advanced digital holographic techniques. The research focuses on understanding of light propagation through complex environments, collecting information of objects obscured behind turbid media using off axis digital holography and improve the quality of reconstructed holograms using phase retrieval algorithms. The work has applications in areas like underwater imaging and communication, imaging applications on fog/polluted air etc.
Haneen V N
My research centers on exploring coherence function of light, with a particular emphasis on coherence vortices and their potential applications.
Dakshin Tillo
My main research focuses are phase estimation, interferometry, diffraction, and digital holographic microscopy.
Anitta Jomy
My research interest is on Wavefront Sensing and Adaptive Optics. The propagation of beam through atmosphere is hindered by atmospheric turbulence which can be corrected with the aid of adaptive optics. My work is based on optimizing the quality metric parameter for wavefront sensing and improvising wavefront sensing techniques like modal sensing for more precise estimation of phase which is essential for proper correction of beam.
MS/MTech Students
Suyash Mehta
My research topic is “Development of a Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy System Using Programmable Beam Illumination.” In this project, we have successfully developed an advanced microscopy system that addresses the resolution constraints inherent to traditional microscopy systems, while simultaneously expanding the field of view. This innovation effectively enhances the space bandwidth product of the microscopy system, which is instrumental in improving the visualization of complex biological specimens, including live cells and tissues. Furthermore, this system can be employed by researchers to investigate optical properties, surface topographies, and defects present in advanced materials, thin films, and microstructures.
E-mail: suyash.sc23m122@pg.iist.ac.in
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/suyash-mehta-a8447920b?
Orcid ID: 0009-0003-6716-9409
Rupesh Kumar
In the present work, we will develop a multi-beam holographic optical tweezers using multiplexed hologram such that different beam types with controllable parameters can be realized to trap particles simultaneously and stably using counter propagating beam.
Mattaparthi Jeevan
We develop a dynamic hologram based laser scanning confocal microscope (LSCM) system by replacing the pair of galvano-scanners as used in a typical confocal microscopy system. The proposed LSCM system allows to precisely deflect the +1 order, used to create the image, at the desired location by displaying a sequence of binary holograms on a light modulating device
Alumni
PhD
Athira T S - "Nonlinear Phase Accumulation of the resultant optical field for a linear phase delay between Interfering fields "
Soumya Asokan - "Some aspects of entanglement in Paraxial light fields "
Lekshmi S R - "Investigations on Turbulence Impacted Structured Laser Beams for Free – Space Optical Communications "
Suryakumar Gautam - "Complex Object Reconstruction From Far- Field Intensity and its Application "
Pramod Panchal - "Investigation on Wavefront Sensing for Propagation Characteristics of Turbulance Impacted Light Beams "
Darshika Singh - "Developing unconventional holography and imaging methods using intensity and polarization correlation: spatial statistical optics approach "
Ameen Yasir P A - "Some Aspects of Phase Estimation in Paraxial Wave Optics"
Vinu R.V - "Shaping and analysis of laser speckle for imaging applications "
Richa Sharma - "An investigation of nonclassical properties of light using an optical tomogram "