ILA Awards for the year 2002
The following Best Thesis and Best Poster Prizes for the year 2002 were awarded by Indian Laser Association during the National Laser Symposium - 2002 at Thiruvanathpuram, Kerela:
The Best Thesis award is sponsored by M/S Laser spectra Services ,Bangalore.
The Best Poster award is sponsored by Late Prof. Vivek Srinivas Memorial Fund.
The Best Thesis Award is shared by :
- Dr. (Ms) A. Deepthy from IISc. Bangalore for her thesis "Growth and physical properties of nonlinear optical KTP and ferroelectric GPI crystals".
- Dr. Tarun K Sharma from CAT, Indore for his thesis "Metal Organic Vapour phase epitaxial growth of III-V semiconductors".
Best Poster Award is shared by:
- Poster 3.12 : "Millimeter-wave free electron laser experiment at IPR" KK Jain, KK Mohandas and RAV Kumar, IPR, Ahmedabad.
- Poster 2.37 : "A new methylene blue doped polymer blend for holographic applications" M. Ushamani, NG Leena Deenja, K Sreekumar, C Sudha Kartha and Rani Joseph, CUSAT, Cochin.
In view of the tough competition this year, the judges have recommended that the following posters be awarded certificates of merit/appreciation.
- P-1.4 : Switchless operation of a TEA CO2 Laser
DJ Biswas and JP Nilaya - P-1.15 : Measurement of pulse-front tilt across a femtosecond laser beam
M Raghuramaiah, AK Sharma, PA Naik and PD Gupta - P-1.31 : Online monitoring of CO2 Laser welding ..
CS Viswanadham, M Arumugam, GL Goswami - P-1.79 : Nonlinear optical fringes in porous silicon
S Prusty, AK Shukla, HS Mavi and SC Abbi - P-2.15 : Synthesis of new and highly fluorescent laser dyes of Xanthene class
RP Gaitonde, MJ Karai, VR Kanetkar, AK Roy and S Sasikumar - P-2.11 : A 146 W diffraction limited copper vapour laser ..
Omprakash, SK Dixit, S Talar, NM Shenoy, GN Tiwari, SV Nakhe, R Mahakud, GS Purbia, R Bhatnagar - P-2.75 : Salt induced aggregation and enhanced optical limiting in a carbon black suspension.
SK Tiwari, MP Joshi, S Nath and SC Mehendale