Dr Dinesh N Naik | Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology

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Won the Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd. award for the Best oral presentation in “Nonlinear Optics” category at the International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics- PHOTONICS 2016, at IIT Kanpur on …

Won the Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd. award for the Best oral presentation in “Nonlinear Optics” category at the International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics- PHOTONICS 2016, at IIT Kanpur on 4th – 8th December 2016.
Presented Invited talk in Biomedical Imaging and Sensing Conference 2016 (BISC'16) held at Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan during May 18-20, 2016.
Won the Best Poster Award in the “IEEE Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP) 2015”, organized by IEEE Photonics Society on 16th and 17th December at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Karnataka, India
Received the INSPIRE Faculty Award of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to carry out independent research in 2015.
Presented Invited talk in ICOL-2014, XXXVIII Optical Society of India Symposium: International Conference on Optics & Optoelectronics held at IRDE, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India during March 05-08, 2014.
Presented Invited talk in Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging, OSA (Optical Society of America) conference held in Hawaii, USA during April 21-25, 2013.
My research work on coherence holography and intensity-correlation holography was recognized as the exceptionally best scientific research in Japan in the field of Optics by the Japan Society of the Applied Physics (JSAP) in 2012. My scientific paper titled “Coherence holography by achromatic 3-D field correlation of generic thermal light with an imaging Sagnac shearing interferometer” published in Optics Express with Takahiro Ezawa, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Yoko Miyamoto, and Mitsuo Takeda as co-authors received the 54th Optics Award (2012) of the Japan Society of the Applied Physics (JSAP).
Awarded the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Germany in 2012 for doing research at Institut für Technische Optik (ITO), Universität Stuttgart, Germany.
Received the University President Award of the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan for the best thesis and excellent research in Ph. D in 2011.
Received the First Prize of Poster Presentation Award of XXXV Optical Society of India Symposium: International Conference on Contemporary Trends in Optics & Optoelectronics held at IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, India in 2011.
Received the Best Presentation Award of the 6th Optics & Photonics Japan (OPJ) 2010 as recognition of the best oral papers presented by the young scientists at the conference organized by Optical Society of Japan (OSJ).
Awarded the Monbukagakusho (MEXT) scholarship of Japanese government for 2007 to study for doctoral degree under the guidance of Prof. Mitsuo Takeda in the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.
Selected for the Summer Fellowship Program of year 2006 in the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India to carry out a project on ‘Spectrally resolved phase shifting interferometry for characterizing dispersive optical wedges’ under the guidance of Dr. Nirmal K. Viswanathan.
Secured the 3rd rank in B Sc. Physics Examination (among 1310 candidates) conducted by Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala in 2005.

Dr Dinesh N Naik
Associate Professor

Dinesh

dineshnnaik [at] iist.ac.in
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Physics

Research interests

The light is characterized by freedoms of multiple parameters, e.g. amplitude, phase, frequency/wavelength, coherence, polarization etc. Full exploitation of these parameters is essential for the development of innovative optical metrology. Optical metrol

INSPIRE faculty at School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, India [Mar2015-Mar 2017].
Assistant Professor (on ad hoc basis) at Department of Physics, Mehsana Urban Institute of Sciences, Ganpat University, Gujarat, India [Aug2014-Mar2015].
Alexander von Humboldt fellow at Institut für Technische Optik, University of Stuttgart, Germany [Jun2012-May2014].
Researcher at Department of Engineering Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan [Apr2011-Dec2011].

Education

Ph.D. (Optics), The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan [2008-2011].
M.Sc. (Physics with specialization in Optics), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India [2005-2007].
B.Sc.(Physics with Electronics as subsidiary), The Cochin college / Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India [2003-2005].

Area of Interest

Coherent & Incoherent Optics, Guided Wave Optics, Singular Optics, Adaptive Optics, Signal & Image Processing...
Optical Interferometry, Wavefront sensing/reconstruction, Spectroscopy, Polarimetry, Holography, Tomography, Correloscopy...
Membership of Professional Societies / Other Academic Activities
Member of SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) - The International Society for Optics and Photonics
Member of Optical Society of India
Reviewer of various optics journals

Test courses

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Optical Fabrication and Testing [PH613]

Fourier Optics [PH619]

Adaptive Optics [PH622]

Optical System Analysis and Design [PH623]

Solid State Physics [PH635]

Optics and Optoelectronics Laboratory [PH631]

Design and Analysis Laboratory [PH632]

Sl. No.	Title	Sponsoring Agency	Period	Amount (Rs. in Lakhs)	Achievement
1	Study of spectral anomalies in optical fields with uncorrelated and correlated spectra: their applications to metrology of sample dispersion, fluorescence and two-photon absorption/emission.	DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award	2015-2020	35.00	Progress of the project evaluated by DST after 2 years as Excellent
2	Optical interferometry based sensor for structural displacement/deformation measurement of materials	IIST Fast-track	2018-2019	10.00	Completed
3	Establishment of laser profilometry based on holographic principle	LPSC-ISRO	2019-2022	47.54	Completed

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