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7th
BIANNUAL CHAPTER REPORT
SPIE DCE CHAPTER January 2009
Delhi College of Engineering
Bawana Road Delhi-110042 www.dce.edu
www.spiedcechapter.dce.edu
Index
1. Introduction
2. List of Current Members
3. Research Scholars Associated with the Chapter
4. Council
5. Collaboration
6. Resources at SPIE DCE Chapter
7. Chapter Activities Since the Last Report
8. Publications
9. Planned Activities for the Future
Introduction
My association with SPIE Student Chapter at D.C.E has been a very memorable learning experience in my undergrad program and I am confident that this is true for every other past, present and future members of this chapter. Through this student chapter SPIE has provided all the students of D.C.E, who are interested in Optics and Photonics, a gateway to connect to the outside world involved in this area. The student chapter has provided the much needed platform to bring all the students of the college together who share the same zeal and interests.
Our chapter is unique in a way that most of our members are undergraduates studying engineering in various fields such as Information and Communication Technologies, Electrical, Mechanical and Polymer technology, to mention a few among many. So what SPIE-DCE chapter does for the undergraduates is that it induces interest in Optics and Photonics and encourages the student to think beyond the traditional fields in their respective branches. I still remember the day when through one of the seminars organized by the previous student members, I came to know about the chapter and the TIFAC-CORE lab working in the field of Fiber Optics and Optical Communication and now I find myself going for Masters in Photonics after I complete my bachelors this year. But I am only a part of the tradition, as many of the past members of the chapter have done the same and without doubt it will continue in the coming years as well.
By awarding me the SPIE Officer travel grant and Ms. Swati Rawal the SPIE contingency Student Travel Grant, SPIE gave us a truly wonderful opportunity to attend the Optics & Photonics, 2008 at San Diego. To meet and interact with the most eminent researchers in the field, some of those from whose books we learn back home was very motivating and a humbling experience. The icing on the cake was to meet and become friends with students from all over the world working in the same field, sharing same passion. At the chapter leadership workshops we discussed and shared inputs about how to manage our chapter better and how to popularize our chapters among the new students in our colleges.
At the conference, I also met the Chapter leaders of the Vrije Univiersiteit Brussels who were interested in giving an outreach package called the EduKits which are designed by Network on Excellence in Micro-Optics (NEMO), through a grant from E.U. With the help of these kits the concept of Diffractive Optics (D.O.) can be practically demonstrated, which got me very excited because in India D.O. is already a part of pre-college classroom instruction and I remember how hard it was to understand and more importantly believe in the concept of Diffraction and Interference until you actually see it happening. With those EduKits and other material from our lab, our chapter then organized outreach activities especially in the government aided schools. We informed the students about how optics is making our everyday lives better and what the future careers in optics are. It was very exciting for us to see the young students getting excited about optics.
During my role as the chapter President I have always had support from my senior and the new chapter members, their enthusiasm and eagerness in organizing activities is very commendable. I would particularly like to thank PhD researchers associated with our chapters: Swati Rawal, Monica, Bhawana, Kamal and among undergraduate students: Saumil and Anoop. But the most important and beneficial role has been played by our faculty advisor Prof. R.K. Sinha. Despite his busy schedule as a teacher, researcher and now the Dean of Industrial Research and Development, he has always found time and energy to help and motivate us in chapter related activities. Finally I would like to thank Dirk and Jason for their constant support in smooth running of our chapter. I would also like to use this opportunity to welcome Ben to our SPIE student family. I wish all the best to the next SPIE-DCE Chapter council which will soon be formed in March, 2009 and hope that our chapter will continue to be better and stronger each year.
Himanshu Raja
President 2008-2009
SPIE DCE Chapter
List of Current Members
Name
Membership Expires on
Swati Aggarwal January 31, 2009
Nipun Batra May 31, 2009
Rishik Bazaz March 31, 2009
Bhawana Dabas February 28, 2009
Jaspinder Gujral March 31, 2009
Richa Jain April 30, 2009
Ammar Jilani March 31, 2009
Saumil Joshi April 30, 2009
Varun Kapoor March 31, 2009
Swati Khurana April 30, 2009
Kamal Kishor March 31, 2009
Ranjana Kumari January 31, 2009
Sanjay Meena March 31, 2009
Vaibhav Negi March 31, 2009
Gurneet Paul February 28, 2009
Akshay Pilani March 31, 2009
Himanshu Raja December 31, 2009
Monika Rajput November 30, 2008
Anoop Ramakrishna 31 January 2009
Swati Rawal 30 November 2008
Kumar Saurav March 31, 2009
Mayank Sharma March 31, 2009
R. Sheena April 30, 2009
Utkarsh Sopan March 31, 2009
Srividya Sridhar January 31, 2009
Anshu Varshney January 31, 2009
Ritika Pahwa July 31, 2009
Ruchi Rajput July 31, 2009
Research Scholars Associated with the Chapter
• Anshu D Varshney Numerical and Analytical Study of Photonic Crystal Fibers
• Swati Rawal Photonic Crystal Waveguides and Devices
• Monika Rajput Devices and Components based on Negative Refraction:Theory
& Design
• Srividya Sridhar Carbon Nanotubes
• Bhawana Dabas Photonic Crystal fiber based Devices
• Kamal Kishore Phototnic crystal fibers and Metamaterials
Council
Faculty Advisor
Prof. Ravindra Sinha - Fibre Optics and Optical
Communication.
Msc., Ph.D
President
Mr. Himanshu Raja
Vice President
Ms. Swati Aggarwal,
Secretary
Mr. Saumil Joshi
Treasurer
Ms. Swati Rawal
Collaboration
TIFAC-CORE in Fiber Optics and Optical
Communication @ DCE
&
SPIE DCE CHAPTER
SPIE DCE CHAPTER has collaborated with TIFAC-CORE@DCE for Research and development activities in the field of Optical
Communication and Optical Engineering. TIFAC-CORE@DCE will provide student members with the latest facilities available in its
labs& the students will undertake and help in industrial Projects assigned to TIFAC-CORE@DCE.
Resources at SPIE DCE Chapter
Experimental Setups: 1. High Dc Voltage Measurement Using Electro-Optic Effect 2. High Dc Current Measurement Using Magneto-Optic Effect 3. Fusion Splicing Machine 4. Measurement of Dielectric Constant 5. Characterization of Optical Fibers 6. Optical Time Domain Reflectometer 7. WDM Network Analyzer 8. Analysis of Modal Propagation in Waveguides 9. CCD Based Imaging Systems 10. Laser Diffraction 11. Measurement of Speed of Light 12. Fiber Optic Voice and Video Links 13. BER Experimental Setup 14. Eye Diagram Analyzer for Optical Fiber Communication System 15. Fiber Fault Detection System 16. Newport Optical Fiber Setup 17. Newport Vibration free table 18. Newport Projects 19. EDFA Setup 20. Optical Spectrum Analyzer
Computational And Scientific Softwares: 1. Matlab Release 14 2. Optiwave Fiber Laser Cad ( Optiamplifier 4.0) 3. Rsoft Bpm Beam Propogation Method ( Design Of Integrated Optical Components) 4. Opti_Hs (Semiconductor Hetrostructure Modelling) 5. Optiwave Fiber_Cad (Fiber Cad Suite) 6. Femlab 7. VPI Transmission Maker (Under Evaluation) 8. Opti-Amplifier 9. RSOFT Band Solver 10. OptiFDTD 11. IE3D (Trial Version)
Chapter Activities since the Last Report
12th March 2008
Visit by Professor Krishna Shenai
Professor Krishna Shenai, the Chair person of the Electrical Department at the University of Toledo made a visit to SPIE at DCE, to give the students information regarding the various courses at the University of Toledo and discussed about the research endeavours being carried out there.
Visit from EPFL, Switzerland
Professor Pramod Rastogi and Mr. Dimitri Nokakis from L'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
visited the Delhi College of Engineering and discussed various avenues for students wishing to pursue
further education with them and in Europe in General. They discussed various aspects of the life of
students and also the many facets of EPFL in particular. SPIE-DCE chapter helped in organizing and
publicizing this event in college.
Dr R.K. Sinha visits Glasgow and St Andrews University - 8 to 28 June 2008
Dr R.K. Sinha, the faculty advisor of SPIE DCE Chapter, made a research visit to the University of Glasgow and St. Andrews University, both located in the Scottish country side. He also received the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship.
14th July 2008
An OptoSci representative came to the Tifac CORE laboratory to demonstrate the working of the Ring
LASER Apparatus.
6th August 2008
Mr Mombasawala Mohmed Saeed, a technical expert from Agilent Technologies gave a demonstration
to the students at Tifac Core at the Delhi College of Engineering. The workshop by him included various
hands on demonstrations including calibration of the DWDM Setup in the Laboratory.
8-15th August, 2008
Optics and Photonics 2008
Himanshu Raja, President of SPIE-DCE Chapter won the SPIE Travel grant to attend the Chapter Leadership Workshop at the conference.
Ms. Swati Rawal gets SPIE Student Travel Grant
On behalf of SPIE and Conference chairs of Optics + Photonics 2008, Ms Swati Rawal has been awarded a SPIE contingency Student Travel Grant of 400$ for presenting her paper titled "Dual band wavelength Demultiplexer, consisting of SOI based photonic Crystals: design and Analysis"
13th-19th December 2008
PHOTONICS 2008: International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics
IIT Delhi had organised Photonics 2008 and 8 students from the Delhi College of Engineering attended various conferences and some short courses. The students included: 1) Anoop Ramakrishna - BE 2) Kamal Kishor - PhD 3) Swati Rawal - PhD 4) Monica Rajput - PhD 5) Bhawana Dabas - PhD 6) Anshu Varshney - PhD 7) Shruti Singh - PhD 8) Himanshu Raja - BE The students attended short courses that were held at IIT Delhi and the conference which was held at the India Habitat center, New Delhi. The short courses attended were based on Silicon Photonics, taken by Dr Michal Lipson and Dr Alex Gaeta, both from ECE Department, Cornell University and Photonics Crystals: Fibres and Devices by Prof. Benjamin J. Eggleton, School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney. The conference itself spanned 3 days and was a huge source of information and encouragement to the students to follow the path of knowledge and to be at the cutting edge of the new frontiers of science. The students interacted with many luminaries present at the conference exchanging views and truly amalgamating experience and raw talent. The students were accompanied by their guide, Prof. R.K.Sinha.
17th December 2008
Prof. De La Rue from Glasgow University, UK visited DCE and had a fruitful discussion with the research
scholars. The discussion was mainly focused on Photonic Crystal Devices and Negative Refraction.
Students had a good interactive session with him and he was happy to answer all their questions.
20th December 2008
A talk was given by Dr. Dominic F.G. Gallagher, CEO of Photon Design, for introducing software to
students interested in simulating photonic crystal fiber and devices using different methods like FEM,
PWE, FDTD etc. The software was introduced in India for the first time and was appreciated by all.
Outreach Activities
SPIE-DCE chapter in the past has been active in creating awareness and popularizing Optics in schools
in Delhi. But this year that spirit was taken to new heights when our chapter organized outreach
activities in Government aided schools in Delhi with the help of NEMO’s Educational Kits on Micro-
Optics provided to us by Vrije Universiteit Brussels student chapter and the educational material such
as posters and CD-ROMs provided by the SPIE.
Outreach Activity 1st – 25th October 2008
The student members of SPIE DCE visited a government School in a nearby Locality, Rohini, Delhi to
help popularize optics in the School. The school students were very enthusiastic, making intelligent
observations and asking many questions. We discussed, among other things, the various aspects of life
in College and also the importance of physics and optics in particular. They also gave them many
examples of job prospects in the field.
We then demonstrated them EduKits and distributed the kits to the physics laboratory of the schools
so that the students are able to witness the phenomena that they study in text books.
Outreach Activity 2nd – 31st October 2008
Another school was visited by the student members, this time it was a government school in Mangol
Puri, Delhi. The school students had completed ray optics and were able to follow the instructions
without much difficulty. They were in awe when some of the NEMO kit experiments were
demonstrated to them, and were very excited when NEMO kits were donated to their school's physics
lab, to help further their knowledge and interest in the subject.
Publications
(A). Research Papers in Journals:
1. “Coupling Characteristics of multicore photonic crystal Fiber based 1x4 power splitters”, S.K.Varshney, K.Saitoh, M.Koshiba and R.K.Sinha, IEEE/OSA, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Paper No JLT-10746-2008.R1 (Accepted for Publication)2008. 2. “Modeling & Design of 2D- Photonic Crystal based Y type Dual Band Wavelength Demultiplexer”,
R.K.Sinha and Swati Rawal, Optical and Quantum Elect., Vol 40, No.9, pp 603-613, 2008.
3. "Raman Amplification Characteristics of As2Se3 Photonic Crystal Fibers”, S. K. Varshney, K.Iizawa,
Y.Tsuchida, M.Koshiba & R.K.Sinha, Optics Letters, Vol 43,issue 21, pp 2431-2433, 2008.
4. “Non - linear Properties of Photonic Crystal Fiber : Improved effective index method”, A. D.
Varshney & R. K. Sinha, The Chinese Journal of Physics, Paper Number 2008145, (Accepted for
Publication) 2008.
5. “Strategies for realizing Photonic Crystal Fiber Bandpass Filters”, S.K. Varshney, K. Saitoh, N.
Saitoh, Y. Tsuchida, M. Koshiba, R. K. Sinha, Optics Express, Vol 16,Issue 13, pp 9459-9467, 2008.
6. “Modelling and design of complete photonic band gaps in 2D photonic crystals”, Yogita Kalra and
R K Sinha, PramanaJournal of Physics, Vol.70, No.1, pp.153-161, 2008.
7. “Study of Birefringence of Elliptical Core Photonic Crystal Fiber Using Mathieu Function”, Anshu
D. Varshney and R. K. Sinha, Applied Optics, Vol.46, Issue 23, pp 5912-5916, 2007.
8. “Propagation Characteristics of Photonic Crystal Fiber : Scalar Effective index method and
Vector Effective Index method”, Anshu D. Varshney and R. K. Sinha, Journal of Advanced Studies in
Theoretical Physics, Vol.1, No.2, pp.75-85, 2007.
9. “Design of Optical Waveguide Polarizer using Photonic Bandgap”, R. K. Sinha & Yogita Kalra, Optics
Express, Vol 14, issue 22, 10790-10794, 2006.
10. “Design of Photonic Bandgap Polarizer”- R. K. Sinha & Yogita Kalra and, Optical Engineering, Vol
45, issue 11, 110503-4, 2006.
11. “Photonic Band gap Engineering in 2D Photonic Crystals” R. K. Sinha and Yogita Kalra, Pramana-
Journal of Physics, Vol. 67, No. 6, pp.. 1155-1164, 2006.
12. “System Performance Comparisons of Turbo and Trellis Coded Optical CDMA Systems”, M.
Kulkarni, R.K. Sinha & D.R. Bhaskar, Internal Journal of Signal Processing, Vol3, No.3 pp 186-191,
2006.
(B). Research Papers in Conferences/Proceedings:
13. “Polarization Mode Dispersion of Elliptical Core Photonic Crystal Fiber Using Mathieu Function”,
Anshu D Varshney & R.K.Sinha, Presented in the International Conference on Fiber Optics and
Photonics 2008, held in New Delhi during December 14-17, 2008.
14. “Modeling & Design of Silicon-on-Insulator based 1.31um/1.55um Photonic Crystal
Demultiplexure”, Swati Rawal & R.K.Sinha, Presented in the International Conference on Fiber Optics
and Photonics 2008, held in New Delhi during December 14-17, 2008.
15. “Design and Characterization of Polarization Beam Splitter utilizing Negative Refraction in Photonic
Crystal”, Monika Rajput, R. K. Sinha, Presented in the International Conference on Fiber Optics
and Photonics 2008, held in New Delhi during December 14-17, 2008.
16. “Planar ARROW as optical sensors-Design considerations”, Shruti, R. Bhattacharyya, R. K. Sinha,
Published in the International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics 2008, to be held in New
Delhi during December 14-17, 2008.
17. “Amplification characteristics of As2Se3Photonic crystal fibers”, S.K. Varshney, K. Saitoh, Y.
Tsuchida, M. Koshiba and R K Sinha, Presented in the International Conference on Fiber Optics and
Photonics 2008, held in New Delhi during December 14-17, 2008.
18. “Structural study of superprism phenomenon in Photonic Crystal”, R. K. Sinha & Anshu D. Varshney,
Presented in SPIE International conference on Optics and Photonics, held at San Diego during August
10-14, 2008; Published in Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 7056 , 70561C, 2008.
19. “Photonic crystal based polarization beam splitter utilizing the phenomenon of negative
refraction”, Monika Rajput, R. K.Sinha, Presented in SPIE International conference on Optics and
Photonics, held at San Diego during August 10-14, 2008; Published in Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 7056,
705620, 2008
20. “Dual band wavelength demultiplexere consisting of SOI based Photonic Crystal: Design and
Analysis”, Swati Rawal & R.K. Sinha, Optics and Photonics Conference, held at San Diego during
August 10-14, 2008 and to appear in Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 7056, 70560T, 2008.
21. “Effect of Titanium Buffer Layer for Improved Field Emission of CNT based cold cathode”, S.
Srividya, S. Gautum, P.Jha, S. Pal, U. S. Ojha, J. S. B. S. Rawat, P.K. Chaudhary, Harsh and R.K. Sinha,
Presented in International Conference on Nanoscience & Technology held at Chennai, India during
Feb. 25-28, 2008.
22. “CNT Density Control By Titanium Capping For Improved Field Emission”, S. Srividya, S. Gautum, P.
Jha, S. Pal, U.S. Ojha, J.S.B.S. Rawat, P.K. Chaudhary, Harsh, R.K. Sinha and P.K. Basu, Presented in
National Conference on Electron Microscope & Allied Fields and XXIX Annual Meeting of EMSI held
at University of Delhi during November 26-28, 2007
23. “Propagation Characteristics of highly elliptical core photonic crystal fibers”, R. K. Sinha and A.D.
Varshney, Paper Number 6480-23, Accepted for presentation in SPIE-Photonics West 2007, San Jose,
CA, USA, January 20-25, 2007
24. “Ultra compact photonic crystal polarization mode splitter”, R.K. Sinha and Yogita Kalra, Paper
Number 6480-53, Accepted for presentation in SPIE-Photonics West 2007, San Jose, CA, USA, January
20-25, 2007
25. “Photonic Crystal Polarizer”, R. K. Sinha and Yogita Kalra, Paper Number 6480-56, Accepted for
presentation in SPIE- Photonics West2007, San Jose, CA, USA, January 20-25, 2007
26. “Polarization Splitter based on Complete Photonic Band Gap Structure”, R. K. Sinha and
Yogita Kalra, Presented in International Conference on Photonics: Photonics 2006” held at
University of Hyderabad during December 13-15, 2006.
27. “Design of single Mode PBG Polarizer”, Yogita Kalra and R.K. Sinha, Presented in International
Conference on Photonics: Photonics 2006” held at University of Hyderabad during December 13-15,
2006.
Planned Activities for the future
1. Continuing our Outreach Activities with Education Kits from VUB, Belgium.
We are also planning to organize Optics related talks or workshops in High
Schools in Delhi where Professors from our college could share their
knowledge with the students.
2. We are planning to organize a seminar on Bio-imaging where the Doctors
and Technicians from the Cancer Research Institute, Delhi would share their
knowledge in this are with the chapter students.
3. To continue organizing lectures and talks on the new and emerging fields
in Optics and Photonics.
4. Assignment of Research projects for SPIE Student members.
5. Elections for chapter council of 2009.