6th BIANNUAL CHAPTER REPORT

SPIE DCE CHAPTER January 2008

Delhi College of Engineering Bawana Road Delhi-110042 www.dce.edu

www.spiedcechapter.dce.edu

INDEX 1. Introduction 2. List of Current Student Chapter Members 3. Meetings 4. Collaboration 5. Resources @SPIE DCE Chapter 6. Details of Chapter activities since last report 7. Publications 8. Projects and Internships by SPIE DCE students 9. Planned activities for future

Introduction SPIE DCE Student chapter has now almost finished 3 years since it was started in 2005, the first of its kind in India. The chapter has come a long way since then, and has established itself as one of the most active chapters in the region. Our chapter is unique in the sense that most of our members are undergraduate students and all the council members this time are also undergraduates. Even though the Delhi College of Engineering doesn’t offer a dedicated Optics course, our chapter has always attracted many students from all disciplines. I was elected as the President of SPIE DCE Chapter in March ’07 for and was very lucky to be assisted by a very sincere and industrious council. During this one year I learnt a lot about chapter management as well as event organisation. I am grateful to SPIE for giving me the opportunity to attend the SPIE Student Leadership workshop at O&P ‘07. This workshop allowed me manage my chapter better and also provided me with tips to have various innovative events and activities for the benefit of the students of our college. I am also very grateful to the support extended by Dirk and Jason, who have both been very helpful to us. Dr. R K Sinha, Faculty Advisor SPIE DCE chapter has been instrumental in keeping the chapter active and has also provided the students of our chapter with numerous research opportunities within his Research group. The council is in place for one academic year and as my term comes to an end this March, I am very honoured to give charge to the next SPIE council and am very confident that they will continue working hard and make SPIE DCE achieve even greater success. I wish the next council a very best of luck! Amol Choudhary President 2007-2008 SPIE DCE Student Chapter

List of current Student Chapter members

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. Rahul Agarwal Swati Aggarwal Vikrant Agrawal Kanishk Arya Aditya Balani Mohit Bhagat Madhur Bhargava Sumit Chawla Amol Choudhary Akshit Dayal Sulochana Dhar Kanishka Garbayal Ankur Garg Sunil Gola Ravinder Gupta Varun Jewalikar Puneet Kumar Vasudev Lal Gunjun Madan Madhur Mittal Ashmeet Monga Monika Prateek Pandey Kanishka Patwal Naveen Rai Himanshu Raja Anoop Ramakrishna Vidushi Rastogi Swati Rawal Anoop Sharma Gautam Sharma Sunny Sharma Param Singh Tejbir Singh Akhil Tyagi Anshu Varshney Faculty advisor: Dr. R K Sinha

Meetings

1 council meeting and 3 general body meetings were held during this semester. These meetings provided useful insights for better chapter management. Various issues like chapter fund utilisation, topics of lectures to be organised and innovative events for students were discussed.

Council

The council elected in March ’07 will stay in place till the next elections which will be held in March ’08.

Names and email addresses of SPIE DCE Council 07-08

Collaboration

TIFAC-CORE in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication @ DCE

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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 the latest facilities available in their labs

and the students will undertake and help in industrial projects assigned to TIFAC-CORE@DCE.

Resources @ 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)

Details of Chapter Activities Since Last Report

18 June 2007 Dr. Bhattacharya an eminent scientist from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) visited Delhi College of Engineering and discussed his research areas with students of our chapter. 3 July 2007

Dr.Sumeet Dua, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Louisiana Tech visited Delhi College of Engineering and delivered a lecture on “Bioinformatics”. Then Dr. Dua visited the TIFAC CORE labs and discussed his research areas with the students of SPIE DCE chapter. 4 August 2007 Dr. S Anantha Ramakrishna from IIT Kanpur visited SPIE DCE and delivered a talk on “Metamaterials”. He also interacted with the PhD students working in the field of Photonics Crystals and Metamaterials.

23 August 2007 As a first instance of Outreach activities for High School Students organised by the SPIE DCE chapter, Prof Harvey Rutt, Head ECE at University of Southampton delivered a talk “Optics and the Internet” at Delhi Public School, Rohini. The talk was appreciated by all the students present and they were amazed by the impact that the optical fibers have made on our daily lives. Abstract of the talk “The talk introduces the concept of Optoelectronics, the fusion of optics and electronics which is now absolutely vital to modern communications, in particular the Internet. The basic ideas of the scale of information which the modern world needs to transmit, and the speeds at which we must transmit it, are discussed to introduce the requirements of modern high-bandwidth links. The physical basis of those links, the fibre optics, optical amplifiers and dispersion compensation systems essential to its operation, are introduced at a basic, non-mathematical level. Some of the new developments required by the ever growing thirst for data communications, and approaches to them underway at the University of Southampton, are included in the talk. It is intended to be suitable for students typically in their last two years or schooling Pre University, and to non-specialist year University students. It may also be of interest to persons with a general interest in modern IT, and assumes only a general technical background with no specialist knowledge of the subject.”

24 August- 30 August 2007 Optics and Photonics 2007 Amol Choudhary, President SPIE DCE chapter won the SPIE Travel grant to attend O&P ’07 at San Diego , CA USA.

3rd September 2007 SPIE DCE chapter and IET DCE chapter organised a lecture by Prof.Vasudevan Laxminarayan, Professor of Optometry at the University of Waterloo on “Interfacing eye with Visual and Optical Instruments”.

6th September 2007 Professor M P Srivastava, Head Department of Physics at the University of Delhi visited our chapter and the TIFAC CORE labs and was impressed by the level of research which the students of SPIE DCE chapter had been carrying out in the last few years.

13-14 December 2007 Japan-Indo Workshop on Advances in Optics and Photonics The SPIE-DCE chapter organised a visit for its members to Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi to attend the 3rd forum of Japan-Indo Collaboration Project on “Infrastructural Communication Technologies Supporting Fully Ubiquitous Information Society” and a Workshop on “Advances in Optics and Photonics”. This was a two day event in which many eminent researchers from India and Japan working in the field of optics and photonics presented their papers and discussed their latest work. It was a nice and enlightening experience to interact with the Japanese researchers and to know about the latest development going on in their country in the field of photonics. There was also a lecture by Professor A.K. Ghatak explaining the Matrix Method for Analysis of Optical Waveguides. Prof. R.K. Sinha, Faculty Advisor SPIE DCE Chapter accompanied the students to the workshop.

15 December 2007 Dr. S K Varshney and Dr. K Saitoh from the Hakkaido University, Japan visited DCE and also made a small presentation on their recent paper “Dispersion Compensating Hole-assisted fibers”.

Publications

1. “ 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

2. “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

3. “Modelling and design of complete photonic band gaps in 2D photonic

crystals” , Yogita Kalra and R K Sinha, paper number P-6757, Pramana-Journal of Physics (Accepted for publication)-2007

4. "Simulation of QoS protocols of RPR (Resilient Packet Ring – IEEE

802.17) in Network Simulator 2"- Alpesh Chaddha, Arunesh Chaddha, Kanishk Arya, Vikrant Agrawal, Paramdeep Singh. Conf. Proc., 2nd International Conference on Embedded Systems, Mobile Communication and Computing (ICEMC2), August 3-5, 2007, PESIT, Bangalore, India

5. “CNT density control by Titanium capping for improved field emission”-

S. Srividya, S.Gautam, P.Jha, U.S. Ojha, J S B Rawat, P K Chaudary, Harsh, R K Sinha, P K Basu. EMSI 2007 at New Delhi

6. Modelling and design of Y type dual band wavelength demultiplexer (

Under Review) – Swati Rawal and R K Sinha

Projects and Internships by SPIE DCE students

Students at SPIE DCE chapter are motivated to carry out independent research, this can be demonstrated by the fact that most of the student members carried out internships at reputed companies and research institutions. Following is a list of a few such Undergraduate students:

1. Kanishk Arya

4th year Summer Internship at TeNet Research Labs at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras May-July 2007 4th year winter internship at Mentor Graphics (India) Pvt. Ltd., Noida.

2. Vikrant Agrawal

4th year Summer Internship at Bharat Electronics Limited, Noida. 4th year winter internship at Texas Instruments, Banglore.

3. Ravinder Gupta

4th year summer internship at Mentor Graphics (India) Pvt. Ltd., Noida. 4th year winter internship at Mentor Graphics (India) Pvt. Ltd., Noida.

4. Sunny Sharma A Winter School on Natural Language Processing, collocated with IJCNLP-2008, held in Hyderabad from 24 December 2007 to 7 January 2008

5. Himanshu Raja Summer project at TIFAC CORE labs at the Delhi College of Engineering

6. Saumil Joshi Summer project at TIFAC CORE labs at the Delhi College of Engineering

7. Amol Choudhary Worked as an UREKA Summer Research student at the National Centre for Laser Applications, National University of Ireland Galway

Planned activities for the future

1. Lectures by Eminent Professors in the field of Fiber Optics, Photonic

Crystals and Carbon Nano Tubes 2. Assignment of Research projects for SPIE Student members 3. Organisation of various Optics related Competitions 4. Continuation of the ongoing Outreach activities. We plan to hold many

popular lectures for the benefit of High School Students in the future 5. Visit to a Fiber Drawing Facility

6. Visit to Various seminars and workshops in the field of Optics held in

and around Delhi for our students

7. Presentations and talks by optics-related industries to generate interest and provide a vocational option to students

8. Elections for Council 2008