ILA Best Thesis and Best Poster Awards at Twenty Third DAE-BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-23) at S.V. University, Tirupati, AP

Best Thesis Awards:

The following thesis presentation was selected for the ILA Best Thesis Award.

  1. Study and development of high power pulsed Nd:YAG lasers and its material processing applications

Mr. Ambar Choubey Solid State Laser Division, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore

M/s Laser Spectra Services, Bangalore sponsored the award money.

Best Poster Awards:

The following posters/ papers were selected for the ILA best poster award by a committee of judges.

  1. Synthesis and Luminescence properties of Eu3+/Tb3+ triply doped CsGd(WO4)2 phosphors for white light emitting diodes
    D. Balaji, A. Durairajan, K. Kavirasu, S. Moorthy Babu
    Crystal Growth Centre, Anna University, Chennai
  2. Optimum frequency-doubling of ultrafast laser in "thick" crystals in presence of both temporal and spatial walk-off
    Apurv Chaitanya N1,2, A. Aadhi1,2, Jabir M.V.1, R.P. Singh1 and G.K. Samanta2
    1Theoretical Physics Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, 2IIT Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad
  3. Photonic crystal enhanced energy transfer efficiency between laser dyes
    Sunita Kedia and Sucharita Sinha
    Laser and Plasma Technology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
  4. Spatially-offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) of paraffin-embedded tissue blocks
    Khan M. Khan, S.B. Dutta, S.K. Majumder and P.K. Gupta
    Laser Biomedical Applications and Instrumentation Division, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore
  5. Femtosecond laser induced periodic sub-wavelength surface structures on Silicon in air and water
    Rajamudili Kuladeep and D. Narayana Rao
    School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
  6. Understanding photo-excitation dynamics in a three-step photoionization of U I using time resolved two- and three-colour three-photon photoionization signals
    P.K. Mandal, R.C. Das, A.C. Sahoo, M.L. Shah, A.K. Pulhani, K.G. Manohar and Vas Dev
    Laser and Plasma Technology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
  7. Development of 215W of narrow linewidth all-fiber Yb-doped CW fiber laser based on MOPA configuration
    Pushkar Mishra, R.K. Jain, Antony Kuruvilla, Rajpal Singh, B.N. Upadhyaya, K.S. Bindra, S.M. Oak
    Solid State Laser Division, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore
  8. Temperature measurement of cold atom cloud in metastable Krypton MOT by transient probe absorption
    S. Singh, V.B. Tiwari, Y.B. Kale, S.R. Mishra, and H.S. Rawat
    Laser Physics Applications Section, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore
  9. Investigation of self mixing interferometry for flow measurement in micro-channels
    Ankur Trivedi1, Devesh Kumar1, Joby Joseph2, Wolfgang Elsaesser3, 1Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, 2Physics Department, IIT Delhi, 3Institut Fur Angewandte Physik, Darmstadt, Germany
    These awards were sponsored by M/s Laser Science, Mumbai and Prof. Vinay Srinivasan memorial award money.