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.
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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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
Student – Rajan Shukla, MTech CSP, IIT Mandi, India, 2021-2022.
BlueControl v1.0
Instrument automation with SCPI over Bluetooth
Students – Mahima Gupta, Sandeep Nathuram Kundalwal, MTech CSE, IIT Mandi, Spring -Summer2023.
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Outreach
Some of my recent outreach activities and media reportages.
Interview with YourPedia
In this video talk about Photonics and its career opportunities, and associated research and teaching activities at IIT Mandi.
What are Remote Labs?
An article that appeared in India Today, where we talk about the implementation of remote online-hardware labs.
Society Memberships and Affiliations
Professional society memberships and other volunteering activities
Member, Optical Society of America.
Fellow, Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom
Blogs
The Route to Mastery
Postulating a meta-approach to upskilling for practicing professionals.
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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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Contact
Have an interesting idea you would like to work together on? Feel free to pop me a line using the form below!