2nd BIANNUAL CHAPTER

REPORT SPIE DCE CHAPTER

PREPARED BY:- PRASHANT PANKAJ BAVEJA

PRESIDENT SPIE DCE CHAPTER

INDEX

1. A word of thanks to SPIE and our Mentors

2. Message from the desk of our Hon. Principal, Prof. P.B.

Sharma

3. List of current Student Chapter members

4. Details of Chapter activities since last report

I. Research Activities

II Chapter Infrastructure consolidation

III Seminars, Lectures, Workshops etc.

5 SPIE DCE CHAPTER at SPIE OPTICS EAST AND ICOL 2005

6 SPIE grants and scholarships received

7 Election of officers

8. Details of planned activities for the future

9. Financial information

10. Names and email addresses of elected Officers

A WORD OF THANKS TO SPIE AND OUR SPONSORS Another six months gone by and one full year of my association with SPIE come to an

end. It has been a fruitful one year for me in which I had the opportunity to interact with

the best in the area of Optics and Photonics thereby helping me evolve as an individual

and further strengthening my resolve to pursue a carrier in this field.

It is hard to believe that one full year has gone by since I first wrote to Dirk our

coordinator at SPIE, seeking his guidance on how to open an SPIE chapter in our

college. Dirk has been a wonderful person to work with, his prompt responses

prompting an even faster reply; his alacrity being highly infectious.

My whole team here at Delhi College of Engineering echoes my feeling. Many under

graduate, graduate and PhD students are now doing projects relevant to their interests

and many more are interested to join in to know more about the exciting opportunities

that exist in the area of Optics and Photonics.

I also take this opportunity to thank our matrix organization: SPIE for all the support they

have given us. Such exhortation is a constant source of motivation for me and my team

at Delhi College of Engineering to excel in the area of Optics and Photonics

I also take this opportunity to thank our faculty advisor Dr R.K. Sinha, under whose

guidance we work towards excelling in our endeavors. Sir, you have been a constant

source of encouragement. Without your guidance neither we nor this chapter could

have achieved so much in such a short time.

I would like to thank TIFAC CORE in Fiber Optics and Optical Communications at Delhi

College of Engineering for providing our chapter members exclusively the infrastructure

to pursue our projects. Many new facilities have now come up in this research center

which is exclusively for the members of this chapter to pursue their projects.

Finally I would like to thank our mentor Prof. P.B Sharma, Principal, Delhi College of

Engineering who has been a very proactive supporter of our activities. He has

unconditionally assisted us in our endeavors providing both financial backing as well as

any sort of infrastructural support that we have required for the past one year. During

our first six months our activities were singularly funded by Delhi College of Engineering

and TIFAC CORE@DCE; our main sponsors.

MESSAGE FROM THE DESK OF OUR HONOURABLE

PRINCIPAL PROF. P.B. SHARMA

It gives me immense pleasure that Delhi College of Engineering has been given the

opportunity to showcase the strides it has taken in the field of OPTICS AND

PHOTONICS. Since the past few years, Delhi College of Engineering has seen a rapid

rise in the field of Optics and Photonics. Some of the research scholars have

completed their Post-doctoral studies and others are in the process of doing so in the

frontier areas like Photonics Crystal Fibers, Photonics band Gap Devices, Optical Fiber

Amplifiers, Semiconductor Opto-electronic devices, Electron Waveguides, Optical

Sensor Technology, DWDM and Quantum Computing.

Our enthusiastic Undergraduate and Postgraduate students who possess

exemplary interdisciplinary zeal are also involved in various creative R&D activities.

Government of India has also recognized the efforts of DCE in this direction and

has granted our institution a project for establishing a world-class centre in Fiber Optics

and Optical Communication under Technology Mission 2020 Programme – TIFAC

CORE. The opening of TIFAC CORE at DCE has enabled the creation of world-class R

& D facilities.

The establishment of SPIE DCE Chapter in 2005 has further created a forum

which has acted as an interface for students and faculty pursing R&D activities in the

area of Optics and Photonics. We have also seen an increase in continuing education

program in the field of Optics and Photonics due to endeavors of student members of

SPIE DCE Chapter.

I extend my very best wishes to the student chapter of SPIE at DCE in their

future endeavours and pledge full institutional support to the activities of the CHAPTER

PROF. P.B. SHARMA

PRINCIPAL

December 10, 2005

List of current Student Chapter members

The following is our chapter roaster at the end of the year 2005. The current number is

at 56 and I have with me the fees of another 10-12 new members who attended the end

of the semester meeting held on December 7. The SPIE ID column indicated NA for

those 21 students whose membership fees I had submitted en-masse at SPIE Optics

East 2005. A large chunk of our members are undergraduate students from a diverse

spectrum of disciplines like electronics and communication, electrical, Information

technology, computer science, mechanical and production engineering. A sizable

portion of our members are post graduate students and research scholars carrying out

exemplary research in the frontier areas of Optics and Photonics. Other than chapter

officers this year we have also introduced a hierarchical concept in our chapter. This

has been done to create some sort of demarcation in our huge student body and also to

create some sort of encouragement to members to move up the ladder from being

student members to platinum members to golden members of our chapter in that order.

The criterion for awarding platinum and golden status to our members is explained as

below:

PLATINUM MEMBERS:

Platinum members are those who are working on some part time projects either paid or

voluntary for duration greater then three months. This membership is generally for

undergraduate and post graduate students

GOLDEN MEMBERS

Golden members are those who are carrying out independent research leading to

publication in either professional meetings or in international journals for duration

greater than one year. This membership is generally for post graduate students and

research scholars. However exceptional undergraduate students may also be elevated

to this criterion.

Last name First name College name Location SPIE ID

Bansal Vishal Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Baveja Prashant Delhi College of Engineering Delhi 3006106 Chaddha Alpesh Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi 3008933 Chaddha Arunesh Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi 3008911

Chaturvedi Aditi Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Chaudhary Kumar Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Chaudhary Rohit Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi NA Dayal Akshit Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi 3008918 Gill Gahandeep Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi NA Gulati Kunal Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Gupta Ankit Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Gupta Anshul Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi NA Gupta Anupam Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Gupta Gaurav Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Gupta Gorav Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi NA Jayarajan Jayesh Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi NA Karn Ram Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi NA Kataria Jatin Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Kedia Pranav Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Kochar Yogesh Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Kumar Krishna Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Phogat Vikas Delhi College of Engineering Haryana NA Sanena Anurag Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Sharma Manirh Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Singh Bikram Jeet Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA

Bovas Prince Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA Jain Rohit Delhi College of Engineering Delhi NA

Bhardwaj Saurabh Chauhan Saurabh Dagar Sharad Dhall Mukul

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Faculty Advisor: Sinha Dr. Ravindra Delhi College of Delhi 707901 Engineering

Details of Chapter activities since last report

I Research Activities In the last six months SPIE DCE CHAPTER has seen tremendous research activities

wherein a lot of its student members worked at various projects in TIFAC CORE@DCE

and also presented 12 papers at professional meetings and in international journals. A

comprehensive list of publications is given here for reference and after that a list of

projects on which various students are working is given.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

1. "Dispersion properties of photonic crystal fibers: comparison by scalar and

fully vectorial effective index methods", R.K.SINHA and ANSHU D VARSHNEY

Optical and Quantum Electronics Vol 37 No 8 pp 711, 2005

2. "Design of ultra compact polarization splitter based on complete photonic

band gap" YOGITA KALRA and R. K. SINHA accepted for publication in journal

of Optical and Quantum Electronics 2005, Paper Number:11082

3. "Highly Birefringent Elliptical Core Photonic Crystal Fibers: Scalar and

Vectorial Effective Index Models" Anshu D Varshney & R. K. Sinha, A research

paper presented in International workshop " Photonic Crystals: Fundamentals

to Devices", at Sydney, Australia during July 7-8, 2005

4. "Estimation of Confinement factor in edge emitting separate confinement

hetrostructure quantum well laser", P. Bovas & R. K. Sinha, Accepted for

presentation at SPIE International Symposium " Optics East " to be held at

Boston, MA, USA during October 23-26, 2005, Paper Number: 6013-30

5. " Modal Analysis of Highly Birefringent Elliptical Core Photonic Crystal fibers

from scalar and fully vectorial effective index method" R. K. Sinha & Anshu D.

Varshney, Accepted for presentation at SPIE International Symposium " Optics

East " to be held at Boston, MA, USA during October 23-26, 2005, Paper

Number:6005-22

6. " Design of ultra compact polarization splitter based on complete photonic

bandgap" R. K. Sinha & Yogita Nagpal, Accepted for presentation at SPIE

International Symposium " Optics East " to be held at Boston, MA, USA

during October 23-26, 2005, Paper Number: 6005-11

7. "A Novel Design of Dispersion Compensating Raman/ two stage EDFA hybrid

for amplification in L-Bnad and U-Band", R. K. Sinha & P.P. Baveja, Accepted

for presentation at SPIE International Symposium " Optics East " to be held at

Boston, MA, USA during October 23-26, 2005, Paper Number:6012-38

8. " A Novel Electro Optic sensor for high DC voltage measurement" A Chaddha,

A Chaddha, A Dayal, P.P. Baveja and R. K. Sinha, Accepted for presentation in

31st symposium of Optical Society of India (International Conference on

Optics and Optoelectronics-ICOL-2005) to be held at Dehradoon, India during

December 12-15, 2005. (Paper no PP-OMSD-89)

9. " A novel design of ultra wideband hybrid amplifier for amplification in U Band"

P.P. Baveja & R. K. Sinha, Accepted for presentation in 31st symposium of

Optical Society of India (International Conference on Optics and

Optoelectronics-ICOL-2005) to be held at Dehradoon, India during December

12-15, 2005. (Paper no PP-FIO-46)

10. " Photonic Band gap polarizer" Yogita Kalra & R. K. Sinha, Accepted for

presentation in 31st symposium of Optical Society of India (International

Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics-ICOL-2005) to be held at

Dehradoon, India during December 12-15, 2005. (paper no PP-PBS-14)

11. " Modelling of GaInAsP-InP based laser diodes with MQW structures using

Transfer Matrix Method" J. P. Bovas, A. Bhattacharya and R. K. Sinha,

Accepted for presentation in 31st symposium of Optical Society of India

(International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics-ICOL-2005) to be

held at Dehradoon, India during December 12-15, 2005. (PP-LA-28)

12. “Polarization Mode Dispersion in Elliptical Core Fibers" Anshu D Varshney & R.

K. Sinha, Accepted for presentation in 31st symposium of Optical Society of

India (International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics-ICOL-2005) to

be held at Dehradoon, India during December 12-15, 2005. (paper no PP-

PBS-13)

LIST OF PROJECTS

• HIGH DC VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT USING ELECTRO-OPTIC EFFECT

• HIGH DC CURRENT MEASUREMENT USING MAGNETO-OPTIC EFFECT

• FUSION SPLICING MACHINE

• MEASUREMENT OF DIELECTRIC CONSTANT

• CHARACTERIZATION OF OPTICAL FIBERS

• OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER

• WDM NETWORK ANALYZER

• ANALYSIS OF MODAL PROPOGATION INWAVEGUIDES

• CCD BASED IMAGING SYSTEMS

• LASER DIFFRACTION

• MEASUREMENT OF SPEED OF LIGHT

• FIBER OPTIC VOICE AND VIDEO LINKS

COMPUTATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE

• MATLAB RELEASE 14

• OPTIWAVE FIBER LASER CAD ( OPTIAMPLIFIER 4.0)

• RSOFT BPM BEAM PROPOGATION METHOD(DESIGN OF INTEGRATED OPTICAL

COMPONENTS)

• OPTI_HS ( SEMICONDUCTOR HETROSTRUCTUREMODELLING)

• OPTIWAVE FIBER_CAD ( FIBER CAD SUITE)

• FEMLAB

• VPI TRANSMISSION MAKER (UNDEREVALUATION)

PHOTOGRAPHS OF DEDICATED LABS FOR SPIE DCE CHAPTER STUDENTS

Prince analyzing rectangular slab WG Dr R.K. Sinha at the WDM Network analyzer

II Chapter Infrastructure consolidation l that we consolidate our chapter

I Seminars, Lectures, Workshops etc in chronological order

th August 2005, Product Demonstration by Benchmark tics and Photonics organized

8th August 2005,Orientation for sophomores

dents and for the benefit of the uninitiated,

In the second half of the year it was essentia

infrastructure so that in the near future we can host any professional meetings. SPIE

DCE CHAPTER banners, posters, letterheads, visiting card for president and stamps for

treasurer, faculty advisor and president were ordered for. Some of them were put to

display at SPIE OPTICS EAST exhibit.

II

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On this day Benchmark, a leading company in Op

demonstration of their entire product line. Students were demonstrated a range of

experiment in Fiber Optic characterization, Free Space Optics and Fiber Optic Analog

and Digital link. Refreshments followed the demonstration

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In the orientation program for the first year stu

the students were explained the benefits of being a student member of SPIE and SPIE

DCE CHAPTER, who should join and towards what end. Students were also explained

the exciting careers that are on offer in the area of Optics and Photonics. The following

promotion posters were put up all over the campus by our chapter members

SPIE (International Society For Optical Engg.) DCE Chapter aims at inculcating in students at Delhi College of Engg. Temperament of research and development. In the last academic year over 20 papers were selected and published in international conferences and journals. Two of them were by B.E. students. So if u dream to study in universities abroad join SPIE DCE Chapter.

For Further queries contact :- ROHIT JAIN (9868324743)

CHHITIZ BUCHASIA (9818799590)

22nd September 2005,Formation of SPIE DCE and TIFAC CORE DATA MINING AND

ANALYTICS center

A new room has been furnished dedicated to SPIE STUDENT members where they can

carry out paid projects in Data Mining and Analytics. For TIFAC CORE the SPIE

students will carry out focused net search to funnel out relevant data, relevant to the

research being carried out at TIFAC CORE @ DCE, sort that data and then create a

database on SQL or MS access from where I will be easy to access any research paper

downloaded and also see its references, learn definition of any keyword in the database

and so forth. Also the students will be given due exposure in the area of Data mining

and analytics which is an upcoming area offering massive employment in Indian Job

Market. The following promotional poster were put up

SPIE DCE AND TIFAC-CORE DATA MINING AND ANALYTICS-CENTER

IN THESE TIMES WHEN COMPANIES LIKE INDUCTIS, EVALUESERVE AND FIDELITY ARE COMING TO OUR CAMPUS AND LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WITH SKILLS IN ANALYTICS, ITS TIME THAT WE MAKE A PARADIGM SHIFT IN OUR OUTLOOK TOWARDS THE WHOLE ART OF ORGANIZING DATA AND GETTING OUT SOMETHING MEANINGFUL OUT OF IT. THIS YEAR, ABOUT 30 STUDENTS NOTCHED UP (A) JOBS IN THESE COMPANIES. NEXT YEAR IT COULD BE YOU. HAVE AN EDGE OVER YOUR COEVALS. SPIE DCE CHAPTER AND TIFAC CORE IN FIBER OPTICS AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION IN COLLABORATION ANNOUNCE THE FORMATION OF TIFAC-CORE DATA MINING AND ANALYTICS CENTER. THE AIM OF THIS CENTER IS TO DOLE OUT PAID PROJECTS IN DATA MINING AND ANALYTICS. THIS COULD WELL PROVE TO BE A DECISIVE EDGE FOR YOU WHEN APPLYING FOR THESE COVETED JOBS FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT PRASHANT PANKAJ BAVEJA(2K2/EC/661) MANAGER, TIFAC CORE DATA MINING CENTER

25th september 2005,Formation of CIIGCIIG or CORPORATE INSTITUTE INTERFACE GROUP was formed to bring into perspective the issues being faced by the industry and do projects relevant to solving those issues thereby giving the student members of SPIE the decisive edge over their peers in the job market. The second responsibility of CIIG is to bring sponsorship to our student chapter so that we can further expand the scope and impact of our chapter activities. The following promotional poster was put up to encourage students to join CIIG

SPIE DCE CHAPTER IN ASSOCIATION WITH

TIFAC CORE PRESENTS

CIIG-CORPORATE INSTITUTE INTERFACE GROUP INDUSTRY INTERACTION FOR OBTAINING SPONSORSHIP IS A KEY ACTIVITY THAT BRUSHES UP YOUR PERSONALITY AND GIVES YOU GOOD INDUSTRY EXPOSURE. CIIG AFFILIATED TO TIFAC CORE CENTER IN FIBER OPTICS AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION WILL BE A GROUP OF STUDENTS THAT WILL ATTEMPT TO BRING IN INDUSTRIAL SPONSORSHIP FOR TIFAC CORE AND SPIE DCE CHAPTER. THE SUCCESSFUL MEMBERS OF THIS GROUP WILL BE GIVEN A PERCENTAGE OF SPONSORSHIP AS CUT DEPENDING UPON THE AMOUNT OF SPONSORSHIP BROUGHT IN ALL ARE INVITED TO JOIN. FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT UNDERSIGNED BEFORE 1ST OCTOBER PRASHANT PANKAJ BAVEJA (9350440869)- COORDINATOR CIIG ALPESH CHADDHA(9810288738) CO-COORDINATOR CIIG

In the first meeting of CIIG members, it was decided that local Optics and Photonics Companies should be targeted to become our website sponsors and later on with regular interaction we can better understand the issues being faced by them and hence work towards solving them. The following was the sponsorship terms and conditions decided

Website Sponsorship Terms & Conditions*

1. The names and brief details of the sponsors will be on the first page and a

specially dedicated page for sponsors of the chapter website (www.spiedcechapter.dce.edu). This website is linked to www.spie.org, the official website of SPIE- The International Society for Optical Engineering. This website describes the educational, research and development activities in the area of Optics & Photonics under taken jointly by SPIE DCE CHAPTER, Applied Physics Department and TIFAC-CORE in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication at Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi. The link will be there for the period for which the Sponsors have signed the agreement.

2. The names of the sponsors will appear on chapter banner which will be of the size 20 feet * 3 feet and will be digitally printed.

3. The duration for the sponsorships will be as that of 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years & Life time.

4. The rates for various time periods are as follows:

Duration Rate (Rs.) 1 year 5000.00 2 years 8000.00 3 Years 11000.00 5 Years 15000.00 10 Years 20000.00 Life Time 22000.00

• The sponsorships rates mentioned above are for the benefits described above only. For any other benefits,

the sponsorship rates will be extra. For example, promotional activities during annual mega event 1st October 2005,'Indefatigable-the search for ultimate best in data mining and analytics at DCE' This competition was launched to teach the chapter members the first step towards research: searching or let’s say exhausting World Wide Web for relevant information and then sorting it. A two months time period was given to the students to search World Wide Web for data relevant to the four key-word categories. We have received overwhelming response from student community and the entries received on 10

December are under evaluation. The following posters were put up to promote this contest

TIFAC-CORE DATA MINING AND ANALYTICS-CENTER

IN ASSOCIACIATION WITH

SPIE DCE CHAPTER

PRESENTS

‘INDEFATIGABLE’

THE SEARCH FOR THE ULTIMATE AND BEST IN THE FIELD OF DATA MINING

FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT ROHIT JAIN (9868324743) CHITIZ BUCHASIA

Rules for ‘INDEFATIGABLE: The ultimate best in Data Mining at DCE’

1. Each contestant will be given a period of two months to search from World Wide Web the most relevant data pertaining to any one of the four key-word categories provided below

2. The entries will be judged based on volume of data searched, its organization from most to least relevant and the completeness of content. Each criteria will be marked a ten point scale.

3. Data will be pronounced most relevant when its instance of occurrence is the maximum number of times in a given text.

4. Data will be accepted in form of .PDF, .DOC, .ppt, .XLS, .rtf and any other format readable by MS Office products and Adobe acrobat reader. HTML pages and types of files other than those described above will NOT accepted.

5. The four key word categories are: I. Fiber Optics, optical fibers, Optical fiber communication, special types of fibers,

optical fiber in communication, manufacture of optical fiber, DWDM, FSO(Free Space Optical communication)

II. Mobile communications ( CDMA and GSM), transport layer in communication

networks, TDM, FDM, SDH, SONET, STM, PCM, T1, E1,metro Ethernet, BTS, baseband and carrier modulation, ADM( add drop multiplexer ) and basics of analog and digital communication

III. Switching and routing in communication networks, all Optical switching, O-O-

O and O-E-O switching, network protocols, routers and switches

IV. MEMS, MOEMS, OEPM(Opto-Electronic particle Monitor), Diameter controller, spintronics, quantum and optical computing, electro optic sensors and fiber optic sensors for civil, mechanical and environmental application

6. The key word categories described above are FIXED and the subcategories are FLEXIBLE.

Based on your knowledge you can incorporate any number of subcategories within the frame of four categories.

7. Categories I and II are for electronics and electrical engineering students. Category III is for computer engineering and IT students and category IV is for students of all branches. This demarcation is however not rigid.

8. The data mined will be submitted written on a CD. The CD will have one folder having the name as the category chosen for mining. Inside you will further subdivide the data into folders with each folder bearing the name you typed in the search engine to retrieve the corresponding data. For a sample log on to www.spiedcechapter.dce.edu

9. The BEST RECEIVED ENTRY will receive Rs 1000/- cash prize and the top three entries will be given an opportunity to work for two months at TIFAC CORE DATA MINING AND ANALYTICS CENTER. For the period of two months that the selected students work in this center the students will be awarded Rs 2000 and a certificate of merit each.

10. The last day for registration is 1st October and last day for submitting entries 1st November. Enteries after 1st oct. will not be accepted .

11. For further details log on to www.spiedcechapter.dce.edu or contact the undersigned

Rohit Jain Ravinder Soni

21st October, 2005 Launch of Online quizzing at www.spiedcechapter.dce.edu Online quizzing in the four keyword categories described above was launched on this day. It is a quiz designed to encourage the students to play more and hence win more. This was aimed to get higher page rank for our chapter website and to get en masse involvement of student community at DCE RULES FOR ONLINE QUIZZING

1. EACH MEBER HAS TO CREATE HIS PROFILE BEFORE HE CAN PROCEED ON TO PLAY THE QUIZ

2. EACH TIME YOU LOG ON YOU WILL RECEIVE A RANDM SET OF 10 QUESTIONS TO ANSWER IN 10 MINUTES.

3. AT THE END OF TEN MINUTES YOU WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY LOGGED OUT OF QUIZZING INTERFACE

4. THERE WILL BE WEEKLY WINNERS AND MONTHLY WINNERS. WEEKLY WINNERS WILL GET A MERIT CERTIFICATES AND MONTHLY WINNERS WILL GET RS 300 CASH FOR WINNERS AND RS 150 FOR FIRST RUNNERS UP

5. THE MORE YOU PLAY THE MORE THE CHANCE YOU WILL HAVE FOR WINING.

23-26 October, 2005 SPIE DCE CHAPTER at OE 2005 11 November, 2005 General Body Meeting of SPIE DCE CHAPTER In this meeting organized to discuss viable and relevant projects that can be done at Undergraduate level many constructive suggestions were given by many members and based on that I worked out a list of projects which were discussed at the end of semester meeting held on December 7. The following promotional poster was put up all over the campus

Projects play a very important role in placements. SPIE DCE CHAPTER is one such platform which enables its member students to undertake projects of very high quality. With this in mind we want to start new projects for our members. All the projects are paid. These projects are to be started during the winter break and the participants may also be invited to visit the university for their respective project works. Those SPIE Members who are interested can contact the undersigned for knowing the details and get themselves registered. Get registered as soon as possible limited number of project vacancy available. To discuss all other details

about the projects we are organizing a meeting. Be there before its to late. Venue :- SBTF4, Science Block, Deptt. Of Applied Physics. Time :- 3:00 p.m. Date :- 11th November * Non members get another chance to join SPIE DCE CHAPTER and be a part of one of these projects. * Special attention to Mechanical and Production students interested in pursuing their MS/Phd/Projects in West Virginia University.

For Further queries contact :- CHHITIZ BUCHASIA (2nd year ME) – 9818799590

BIKRAMJEET SINGH(2nd year ME)- 99111155 12-15 December 2005 SPIE DCE CHAPTER AT ICOL 2005

19 December 2005 One day Workshop on Splicing Techniques in Single Mode fibers

In this workshop splicing techniques for single mode fibers was demonstrated and the

students attending this workshop performed complete splicing operation under the

supervision of Mr Jaspreet Singh Owner Fiberonics India. This was followed by

demonstration of EDCOM BER KIT from OptoSci. This was a recent purchase and the

students attending (15) were given the opportunity to perform all the experiments on the

kit.

5 SPIE DCE CHAPTER at SPIE OPTICS EAST AND ICOL 2005 SPIE DCE CHAPTER was given the opportunity by SPIE to showcase its activities for

the first half at OE 2005 Exhibit. Not only that, four research papers by SPIE student

members were presented at the meeting. I also presented my paper at this event and

my travel was funded by SPIE for which I shall be very grateful to them. What follows is

the detailed report of the events at and after the meeting

SPIE DCE CHAPTER AND TIFAC CORE@DCE Delhi in MIT, Harvard University & BOSTON University, Boston , MA, USA during SPIE International Symposium OPTICS

EAST -2005, October 23-29, 2005

In the recently concluded SPIE OPTICS EAST 2005, SPIE DCE CHAPTER AND TIFAC CORE @ DCE was given the opportunity to showcase its endeavors for the past one year at the prestigious SPIE OPTICS EAST exhibit. Over fifty dignitaries and intelligentsia both from industry and renowned institutes of the world visited our stall and praised the efforts that have yielded so much in so little a time. In fact one of the distinguished luminaries in the field of fiber optic sensor technology gravely remarked that ‘In India problem is that everything gets overshadowed by the IITs’. Such exhortation is always a source of motivation for us in our future endeavors. A few stills from the exhibit can be seen below where SPIE DCE CHAPTER AND TIFAC CORE@DCE is being lauded by world’s optics and photonics community

Research Paper Presentation: Following two research papers are presented by Dr. R. K. Sinha, Chief Co-ordinator, TIFAC-CORE@DCE coauthored by student members of SPIE DCE CHAPTER.

(i) “Modal Analysis of Highly Birefringent Elliptical Core Photonic Crystal fibers from Scalar and fully vectorial effective index method” R. K. Sinha and Anshu D. varshney, paper number 6013-30.

(ii) “Design of ultra compact polarization splitter based on complete photonic bandgap”,

R. K. Sinha & Yogita Nagpal, paper number 6005-22

While presenting these research papers in two different sessions the concept and initiatives of establishing TIFAC CORE and benefits of SPIE DCE CHAPTER to the student community at DCE and other local institutes in India was also explained. In these sessions research papers were presented from leading universities, institutions like The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Optical Science Center, University of Arizona, Boston, MIT and Harvard universities in addition to the leading companies. The topic included the basics of Photonic Crystal Fibers, Devices and its application towards development sensitive sensors. It was exciting to know the new and ongoing R&D activities through out the world in the area covering Photonic Crystal based devices leading to development of new field called Nano-Photonics. Poster Session The oral sessions could not be photographed, as it was not practiced but poster session was allowed to be photographed and seen below are TIFAC CORE sponsored B.E. student Mr Prashant Pankaj Baveja who also happens to be the president of SPIE DCE CHAPTTER and Dr R.K. Sinha presenting their research papers in poster sessions. The details of the paper presented in the poster sessions are as follows:

(i) “A Novel Design of Dispersion Compensating Raman/two stage EDFA hybrid for amplification in L-Band and U-Band” R. K. Sinha & P.P. Baveja, Paper number 6012-38

(ii) “Estimation of Confinement Factor in edge emitting separate confinement hetrostructure quantum well laser” R. K. Sinha & P. Bovas,

In totality four paper were thus presented by SPIE DCE CHAPTER AND TIFAC CORE@DCE at SPIE OPTICS EAST 2005. In poster sessions also papers were presented in all aspects related to optical fiber and wireless optical communication systems through out the world.

Meeting with Prof John D Joannapolous at MIT Prof J.D. Joannapolous is a world authority in the field of Photonic Crystal and probably on of the first authors of a book on Photonic Crystals. Dr. R.K Sinha had a lengthy discussion with him on various topics such as photonic crystals, phenomenon of negative refraction, future scope of photonic band gap based devices such as antennas and PCF and the research work being carried out at TIFAC-CORE@DCE. This was followed by a formal presentation of TIFAC- CORE@DCE brochure to Prof Joannapolous by Dr R.K Sinha, followed by visit to his LAB. Here are some souvenirs from those highly intellectually fulfilling moments taken in the office of Professor Joannapolous, Building No.12, Physics Department, MIT, USA on October 26, 2005 at 2.00pm onwards with prior appointment.

Visit to Harvard University (DEAS-Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences)

The visit to MIT was followed by the visit to Harvard University (Divison of Engineering and Applied Sciences) where representatives of SPIE DCE CHAPTER AND TIFAC CORE@DCE had the opportunity to meet with three research groups working in the area of photonic crystals, Ultra fast Optics and photonic band gap devices. The visit was coordinated & escorted by the Secretary of Professor Fedrico Cappaso with prior invitation to visit three related research groups and listen presentations of on-going research activities with open discussions and provision of free

time for tea and lunch on October 27, 2005. First in the series of meeting that took place that day was the meeting with Prof Kenneth B Crosier. Professor Crosier’s group is working in the area of characterization of photonic crystals based on field spectroscopy techniques and silicon nitride based Optical Antennas. Dr Sinha had a discussion with him in the area of photonic crystals and photonic band gap based devices and explained about on going research work of TIFAC-CORE@DCE in the area related Photonic Bandgap Devices. This was followed by a presentation of TIFAC CORE brochure to him and a visit to his lab. Following are the cherish able fragments of our memories that could be salvaged:

Next meeting was scheduled to be with Prof. Federico Capasso. Prof. Capasso is working in the area of photonic band gap devices, QC lasers and Casmir force. With him we had a nearly three hours meeting where his students demonstrated the work being done by them. Healthy discussion was the fruit of these presentations. These discussions were in the area of Photonic Band Gap devices, electron waveguides and Quantum Cascade Lasers. The scope of their experimental development and further areas of work were explored. Here as well we presented him with a souvenir from SPIE DCE CHAPTER AND TIFAC CORE@DCE.

The next meeting was with Prof Eric Mazur. Prof. Mazur is working in the area of Femto second lasers and its application in medicine(for target tissue scission), manufacture of black silicon ( silicon with surface treated with femto second laser resulting in its blackening due to formation of nanostructure ridges on its surface ) and other such application. We also had a detailed tour of his lab at Gorky McKay (DEAS) and was explained that many of these labs were headed by Nobel Laureates of Physics.

Visit to Photonic Center, Boston University, MA, USA: Third in the series of visits was a visit to Boston University’s Photonics Center. This center encourages the growth of startup companies in area of optics and photonics by giving them the facilities available at its startup incubator and then subsequently when they find their own feet, this center benefits from the revenues earned by these companies. This center is based on the very same ideas as TIFAC CORE in India but the difference is the absence of this startup incubator concept. The start up incubator is an infrastructure created within this photonic center that can hold 14-25 small start up companies and provide them with necessary infrastructure to grow. It provides an ideal place wherein these companies can get affordable skilled work force from university itself on a part time basis thereby significantly reducing their startup costs. Also as a part of this package these companies get to use the facilities at the center to develop their own products. So in totality what we have here is a complete startup solution for any optics and photonics company without the huge initial investment of setting up their own infrastructure and recruiting their own workforce. The

Photonics Center on its part get a fixed initial capital from these companies and then assists them in various steps and in exchange gets a percentage of their revenue. Research and development work starting from Fabrication of Optical Fiber perform, Fiber Drawing tower, Optical fiber sensors, planar optical waveguides and optical communication set ups are very well placed with ultra modern facilities for teaching and learning. ICOL 2005-INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN OPTICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS HELD AT DEHRADUN (31ST ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF OPTICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA) ICOL-2005 was held at Dehradun between December12-15 2005. It was attended by best in Optics and Photonics all over the Globe. Seven student members from our chapter presented five different papers in the area of Photonic Band Gap Devices, Photonic Crystal Fibers, Semiconductor Quantum Well lasers, Electro-Optic Sensors and Optical Amplifiers (EDFA+FRA).

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