About Us
The Center for Lasers and Photonics (CELP) is an interdisciplinary center of excellence that combines cutting-edge technology from engineering and theoretical advances in science to create new horizons in the field of photonics science and engineering. The faculty in CELP belong to six different parent departments (EE, ME, AE, PHY, CY, and CE) and pursue research in the fields of nanobiophotonics, ultrafast optics, quantum optics and related fields. The Center has research infrastructure worth several crores funded by agencies such as DST, DRDO, CSIR, MHRD etc.
Head of Department

Prof. Pradeep Kumar K
Head, Centre for Lasers and Photonics
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Email: head_ltp@iitk.ac.in / pradeepk@iitk.ac.in
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- Laser Spectroscopy
- Laser-Plasma Studies
- Ultrafast Phenomena
- Raman Spectroscopy
- Medical Applications Of Lasers
- Photonic Devices
- Semiconuctor Lasers
- Semiconductor Optoelectronic Integration
- Interferometric Tomography
- Fiber Optics
- Optical Signal & Information Processing
- Optical Networks
- Electrooptic Materials & Devices
- Particle Image Velocimetry
- Laser Schliern
- Laser Processing Of Materials
- Laser Micromachining
- Solid And Liquid Phase Pulsed Laser Deposition
QUANTUM AND WAVE PHENOMENA (EE683A) |
Introduction to quantum mechanics and its tools: Motivation for quantum mechanics: early experiments; general principles of quantum mechanics: operator algebra, eigenstates, superposition, observables and expectation values, uncertainty relations, commutators, angular momentum, Dirac notation; potential wells and barriers, harmonic oscillator, Hydrogenic atom; time independent and dependent perturbation theory. .Device applications of quantum and wave phenomena: Density of states; practical examples of lowdimensional systems such as quantum wells, wires and dots: design, fabrication and characterization techniques; engineered electronic and optical properties of these lowdimensional materials; application in electronic, optoelectronic and photonic devices; current research efforts towards using quantum mechanical effects for developing efficient devices. |
FIBER-OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS (EE684A) |
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SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATION DEVICES (EE685A) |
Introduction., Review of Semiconductors, Epitaxial Growth of Semiconductors, Semiconductor Optical Waveguides, LED, Diode Lasers, Fabrication and Packaging, Single mode Laser diodes plus Reliability, PhotoDetectors, External Modulators, Photonic Integrations. |
COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING: MODELS TO INVERSIONS (EE659A) |
Motivations and overview of of tomography, limited data settings, approximate tomography, multimodal tomography. Typical Models: Maxwells equations, Helmholtz equation, eikonal equation, radiative transfer equation and its diffusion approximation. Brief review of numerical solutions to the above models: finite element schemes and the method of moments (boundary element method) Linear tomography: Straight path tomography, Born and Rytov approximations in diffraction tomography, algebraic reconstruction techniques. Regularized linear and nonlinear least squares solutions. Frechet derivative calculations, method of adjoints. Approximate tomography: Shape based tomography and topological derivatives Introduction to stochastic reconstruction schemes, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods, posterior sampling. Applications: Diffuse optical tomography, electrical impedance tomography, refraction tomography, electromagnetic wave tomography, elastography, multimodal tomography |
KALMAN FILTERING AND ITS APPLICATIONS (EE698J) |
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QUANTUM ELECTRONICS (PHY644A) |
Semiclassical theory of lasers, single and multimode operation, gas laser theory, ring and Zeeman lasers, coherence in lasers. nonlinear optical phenomena, Feynman diagrams in multiphoton problems. |
QUANTUM COMPUTING (CHM696A) |
Thermodynamics of computing, Shannon Theory, elementary information theory (2)Basics of computers, Church Turing hypothesis, basics of computing complexity (4)Basic of quantum mechanics, Feynman Block Pseudo polarization Vector Model, Time Dependent Schrodinger equation, basics of approximate quantum approaches (8)Two level Systems, Coherence, Superposition Principle, Density Matrix, Entanglement, Relaxation Processes.(6)Quantum gates and circuits, Theory of Quantum Information and Computation, Deutsch Jozsa algorithm, Shor's algorithm for factoring, Grover's search algorithm and its applications.(8)Quantum Complexity, Quantum Turing Machine. (6) Physical implementations of Quantum Computation, Light polarization, NMR, Cavity QED, IonTraps, Laser matter interaction, Coherent Control. |
INTRODUCTION TO BIOPHOTONICS (PHY610) |
Introduction to Biophotonics, Basics of optics and light matter interaction: Reflection, refraction scattering, diffraction, absorption, emission, scattering, Principles of Lasers, Non-linear Optics associated with Biophotonics, Photobiology: Interaction of light with tissue, Bioimaging: Different Optical Imaging techniques: Comparison with other imaging techniques, Microscopy, Spectral and Time resolved Imaging, Applications of bioimaging, Optical Biosensors: fiber optic, evanescent wave, surface plasmon resonance, Bio-nano-photonics |
LASERS IN CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY (CHM699A) |
Fundamentals of Lasers, laser induced fluorescence and multiphoton ionization processes of molecules, probing IVR and dynamics of chemical reactions in liquid and molecular beam, spectroscopy of single molecule, probing of proton dynamics, optical trapping and manipulations of biological macromolecules and organelles, confocal microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, applications to diagnostics and biotechnology |
Dr. Rahul Bansal, Postdoctoral Fellow
Delhi Technological University
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Dr. Ndege Simisi Clovis, Postdoctoral Fellow
Jawaharlala Nehru University
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Postdoctoral fellow (Term completed)
Dr. Sudip Kumar Chatterjee, Postdoctoral Fellow
Indian institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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Dr. Indrajeet Kumar, National Postdoctoral Fellow
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Prof. D Goswami, Professor
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Prof. H Wanare, Professor
School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, India | Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
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Prof. K Muralidhar, Professor
University of Delaware,Newark DE, USA
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Prof. Pradeep Kumar, Professor
IIT Madras
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Prof. R Vijaya, Professor
IIT Madras
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Prof. Bharat Lohani, Professor
University of Reading, UK
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Prof. P K Panigrahi, Professor
Louisiana State University, USA
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Prof. Naren Naik, Professor
IISc Bangalore
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Prof. G Rajshekhar, Associate Professor
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
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Prof.Saurabh Mani Tripathi, Associate Professor
IIT Delhi
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Prof. Shilpi Gupta, Associate Professor
University of Maryland College Park
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Prof. Pratik Sen, Professor
IACS (Kolkata) & RIKEN (Japan)
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Prof. Sapam Ranjita Chanu, Assistant Professor
IISc. Bangalore (INDIA)
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Prof. Ibrahim Sugarno, Associate Professor
IISc. Bangalore (INDIA)
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News & Announcement
- Candidates Shortlisted for Interview in PhD Programme New
- Candidates Shortlisted for Interview in M.S ( by Research) Programme New
- Central Manufacturing Technology Institute(CMTI), Bangalore and IIT Kanpur signed a MoU on the 4th July 2022 to undertake collaborative research in Laser Technology, Photonics and Advanced Manufacturing Technology.
- The center welcomes the participation of post-doctoral fellows in research activities.
- Prof Shilpi Gupta has been awarded with P.K Kelkar Fellowship from the Institute.
- Prof Pratik Sen has been awarded with Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professorship.
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