Dr. Srikanth Sugavanam

Scientist, Photonics and Applications

Welcome!

My name is Srikanth, and I am an Assistant Professor with the School of Computer and Electrical Engineering at IIT Mandi, India.

I work in the area of fibre lasers, specializing in real-time laser characterization techniques. I am keenly interested in applying such techniques in real-world applications, where multi-gigahertz bandwidth, megahertz-rate acquisition diagnostics can lead to interesting insights.

SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE

Fibre lasers, ultrafast measurement techniques, fibre optic sensors and instrumentation

SCHOLAR METRICS

h-index – 17
Total citations – 1297

TEACHING

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, FHEA, UK

ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT

Ex-Programme Manager,
Marie S.-Curie MULTIPLY 
50-host consortium based post-doctoral Fellowhips programme

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT

Spatio-temporal dynamics of Fibre Lasers

Ride alongside coherent and dissipative features in fibre lasers to see how they evolve in real time, in experiment.

Communication Physics 2021

Bidirectional ultrafast lasers and applications

An exploration of the physics, technology and application space for bidirectional lasers. Gyroscopes, real-time observation of build up dynamics, applications, …and more!

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Nature Communications, 2019

Analysis of Laser Radiation using the Nonlinear Fourier Transform

We demonstrate how the Nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT) based on the Zakharov-Shabat spectral problem can be applied as a signal processing tool for representation and analysis of coherent structures embedded into dispersive radiation in lasers. 

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Selected papers

Read about spatio-temporal dynamics, random fibre lasers, laminar-turbulent transitions in Raman fibre lasers, and more.

Ongoing projects

Some interesting projects that I am working on currently

Ultrafast fibre laser gyroscopes

Dr. MARIA CHERNYSHEVA

Leibniz IPHT, Jena, Germany

Nonlinear Fourier Transforms

Dr. MORTEZA KAMALIAN

AIPT, Aston University

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Student Projects

Select projects I have supervised

Droṇā

A wireless MIDI controller for dynamic motion and gesture articulation

Student – MEng Mr. Vincent Yi, Aston University, UK, 2019-20.

Lipi

An Open-source Raspberry  Pi-based Whiteboard Camera


StudentRajan Shukla, MTech CSP, IIT Mandi, India, 2021-2022.

Project Y

Topper Secreter

Society Memberships and Affiliations

Professional society memberships and other volunteering activities

Member, Optical Society of America.

Fellow, Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom

Blogs

Three ways to counter stage fright

In appreciation of Adam Neely’s latest video, and some additional tips.

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Implementing Online-Hardware Hybrid Labs

The philosophical underpinnings, reflections from in-class observations, and the full GitHub repository of lab material – for a measurement and instrumentation course designed around the Raspberry Pi platform.

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Moral Dichotomies

Some thoughts on Malcolm Gladwell’s recent book, The Bomber Mafia.

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Contact

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