ANNUAL CHAPTERANNUAL CHAPTER

REPORT REPORT

of SPIE- IISc Chapterof SPIE- IISc Chapter

May 2011May 2011

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 12(http://www.iisc.ernet.in)

IndexIndex

1. Address from the Faculty Advisor

2. President's Word

3. Current Members

4. Council Members

5. Chapter Activities

6. Financial Information

7. Publications

8. Planned activities for future

Address from the Faculty AdvisorAddress from the Faculty Advisor

It gives me immense pleasure to initiate the SPIE activities

in the Indian Institute of Science. Since the past few years,

there has seen a rapid rise in the field of Optics and

Photonics and our research scholars are working on the

frontier areas like Fiber Bragg Gratings, Tomography,

Medical Imaging, Photonic band Gap Devices, Optical Bio-

sensors, Optical Sensor Technology, DWDM and Quantum

Computing.

The opening of a world-class Nanofabrication facility at

IISc has enabled carrying out complex experiments in the

field of nanophotonics. SPIE chapter helps in bringing

together different groups working in similar areas and

provides a platform for strong collaboration. I encourage

students to get involved actively in the seminars and

attend SPIE global conferences.

I express hope that the student chapter would reach great

heights in near future with more members and their active

participation. Our enthusiastic postgraduate students and

research students who possess exemplary

interdisciplinary zeal are also involved in various creative

R&D activities.

I extend my very best wishes to the student chapter of

SPIE at IISc in their future endeavours and pledge full

institutional support to the activities of the chapter.

Dr. Srinivas Talabattula

Associate Professor

31 May 2011

President's WordPresident's Word

As we welcome 2011, I reflect back on the past year

when the SPIE-IISc student chapter laid its foundations at

Indian Institute of Science. It was my honor as well as

utmost pleasure to be a part of the launching team of

SPIE-IISc student chapter. The chapter was inaugurated in

August 2010 with a vision to bring together researchers

working in all different fields of Optics and Photonics

under a single common platform to explore opportunities

and share knowledge. The chapter has successfully put

forward its first step in a satisfying manner and has since

then regularly conducted educational and technical talks

by eminent speakers all across the country.

In this report an update of SPIE-IISc chapter activities

is presented, with a special recognition to all the SPIE

members and volunteers for their time and continuous

support. For the smooth running of the chapter, student

meetings and discussions are held every alternate Fridays

of the month. Under the active involvement of our Vice

President Mrs. Rajini V Honnungar and our secretary

Sandeep Ummethala such meetings have proved to be

very helpful to plan and schedule our future events. In

addition to this, our membership and outreach committee

headed by two active members Nivesh Mangal and Alok

Jha also plays a vital role in chapter’ s growth by making

students aware of SPIE activities. Recently a new program

called’ The Registration Drive’ was successfully

conducted to focus on expanding the membership base. A

finance and grant committee lead by our treasurer Arjun

Shetty has been established to oversee all financial

matters and to make the students aware of SPIE student

grant and travel grant benefits.

Amongst all, the most crucial and central role as a

mentor has been played by our Student Advisor Dr.

Srinivas Talabattula. With his constant motivation, zest

and vision the chapter has been able to achieve its set

goals despite of all the challenges. Also I would like to

express our sincere gratitude to Dirk, Ben Jason and all

the SPIE student program coordinators for their support

and inputs.

To all those mentioned above many thanks for your

efforts! I would like to wish all the best to the new SPIE-

IISc Chapter committee, and hope that our chapter

continues to be better and stronger every year.

Khushi Vyas

President 2010-2011

SPIE-IISc Student Chapter

List of Current Members(16)List of Current Members(16)

Arunbabu Ayiriveetil

Tushar Bera

Rajini Honnungar

Ravi Prasad Jagannath

Mahesh Kondiparthi

Sathish Malathi

Nivesh Mangal

Bibhudutta Mishra

Vikranth Nagaraja

Arindam Phani

Vijayanth Reddy

Akshata Shenoy

Arjun Shetty

Nagendra Singh

Sandeep Ummethala

Khushi Vyas

Council MembersCouncil Members

Faculty Advisor

Prof. T Srinivas, Associate ProfessorApplied Photonics LaboratoryDepartment of ECEIndian Institute of Science

President Ms. Khushi Vyas

Vice President Ms. Rajini V Honnungar

Secretary Mr. Sandeep Ummethala

Treasurer Mr. Arjun Shetty

Chapter ActivitiesChapter Activities

18th October 2010

SPIE IISc Student Chapter Inauguration

The Chapter was inaugurated by Prof. R M Vasu, Dept. of

Instrumentation, IISc followed by a technical talk on "Photonics in

Defense applications" by Dr.Jagannath Nayak, Scientist F,

Research Center Imarat, Hyderabad

The talk was highlighted on the technologies in optical domain for

aviation and missiles for military applications.

22 November 2010

A Technical Talk on “Computational challenges in diffuse

optical tomographic imaging”

The talk was delivered by Prof. Phaneendra K Yalavarthy of Super

Computer and Educational Research Centre (IISc). The talk

focussed on computational models,including the recent

developments at medical imaging group, SERC. The emphasis of

the talk has been on open problems and associate challenges in

computational aspects of diffuse optical tomography.

12th January 2011

Technical Talk on “Micromachined Implements for Optics”

Prof. G K Ananthasuresh of Mechanical Department was invited for

an enlightening lecture on Optics and micro systems and the

challenges involved in modelling were discussed.

24th February 2011

Technical Talk on “Applications of Laser Microscopy to

Biology and Medicine”

Prof. Siva umapathy gave details of the existing technologies for

cancer detection and highlighted on the advantages and

applications of the laser microscopy in cancer detection.

10th April 2011

SPIE Registration Drive

With an aim to bridge the gap between different laboratories

working in area of Optics and to make the community aware of the

recent advances in different fields like MEMS, MOEMS, Nano and

Bio Optics, a registration drive for SPIE has been conducted

oncampus to make students aware of the SPIE activities

Financial InformationFinancial Information

the progress of current activites and also plans for the future. The

following are the outcomes of the meeting

Deposit Withdrawn Balance

Opening Balance

Rs. 29449.43

Logistic Expenses

Rs.7245

Lunch & Refreshments

Rs.9963

Mementoes Rs.2645

Closing Balance

Rs. 9596.43

Planned Activities for the FuturePlanned Activities for the Future

The chapter holds a meeting on 2nd Friday of every month to

discuss the progress of current activites and also plans for the

future. The following are the outcomes of the meeting

A two day workshop to be held in association with Eagle

Photonics, a private company that deals with develeopment

of WDM systems and Fiber Optic kits.

A three day summer school on current advances in the area

of photonics through the visiting lecturer facility of SPIE.

Lectures by research scholars working in different domains to

be initiated

to conduct joint activities between SPIE and IEEE Photonics

Society

organising industrial visits to IBM, LEOS (Laboratoy for

Electro-Optic Systems, ISRO) that enhance the practical

knowledge of the students.

Publications Publications (partial list)(partial list)

1. P. Ragupathy, H. N. Vasan, N. Munichandraiah, and N. Vasanthacharya, “In-situ preparation of PEDOT/V2O5 Nanocomposite and its synergism for enhanced capacitive behavior”

2. Aninda J. Bhattacharyya and Monalisa Patel,“Soft matter electrolytes for Li-ion batteries”

3. G. Kolappan Geetha, V. T. Rathod, D. Roy Mahapatra, and S. Gopalakrishnan, “Lamb wave based detection of damage in a stiffener bonded to a plate”, Proc. SPIE 7984, 79842X (2011) 4. V. Ajith and S. Gopalakrishnan, “Porosity estimation using wave propagation based methodology for structural health monitoring of a composite beam” Proc. SPIE 7984, 79842S (2011) 5. Ajay B. Harish, Dineshkumar Harursampath, and D. Roy Mahapatra, “Self-actuating and self-diagnosing plastically deforming piezo-composite flapping wing MAV” Proc. SPIE 7978, 797813 (2011)

6. Vivek T. Rathod, Nibir Chakraborty, and D. Roy Mahapatra, “Linear phased array of piezoelectric transducers for delamination monitoring in a composite laminate using Lamb waves”, Proc. SPIE 7982, 798217 (2011) 7. Arvind Krishnaswamy and D. Roy Mahapatra. “Electromechanical fatigue in IPMC under dynamic energy harvesting conditions”, Proc. SPIE 7976, 79762Q (2011) 8. Rejin Isaac and D. Roy Mahapatra, “Magnetoresistance of flexible CNT-Fe composite thin films in a dynamic electric field”, Proc. SPIE 7980, 79800B (2011)

9. Ankur Goswami, Arindam Phani, Ankit Krisna, N. Balashanmugam, Giridhar Madras, and A. M. Umarji, “Poly-HDDA microstructure fabrication using microstereolithography for microcantilever-based sensor technology”

10. Jaya Prakash, Venkittarayan Chandrasekharan, Vishwajith Upendra, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Accelerating frequency-domain diffuse optical tomographic image reconstruction using graphics processing units” J. Biomed. Opt. 15, 066009 (Nov 19, 2010)

11. Mahesh Kondiparthi and Shivananju B.N, “Simultaneous measurement of strain and temperature with a pair of matched fiber Bragg gratings” Proc. SPIE 7813, 78130Q (2010)

12. Mahesh Kondiparthi, “Simultaneous measurement of multiple parameters using a single fiber Bragg grating”, Proc. SPIE 7808, 78081R (2010);

13. Mahesh Kondiparthi, “Novel approach for simultaneous measurement of strain and temperature using a single tapered fiber Bragg grating”, Proc. SPIE 7813, 78130P (2010)

14. Khushi Vyas and Kameswara Rao Lolla, “A novel method for diameter estimation of small opaque objects using Fraunhofer diffraction”,Proc. SPIE 7792, 779219 (2010)

15. Mahesh Kondiparthi and Arindam Phani, “Novel gray coded pattern for unwrapping phase in fringe projection based 3D profiling” Proc. SPIE 7798, 77982L (2010)

16. Ramesh Karuppannan and M. Prashantha, “Nano structured carbon nitrides prepared by chemical vapour deposition”, Proc. SPIE 7761, 776104 (2010)

17. Vishal Saraogi, P. Padmapriya, Apurba Paul, et al., “Change in spectrum of Brownian fluctuations of optically trapped red blood cells due to malarial infection”, J. Biomed. Opt. 15, 037003 (May 24, 2010)

18. Michael F. G. Wood, Nirmalya Ghosh, Marika A. Wallenburg, et al, “Polarization birefringence measurements for characterizing the myocardium, including healthy, infarcted, and stem-cell-regenerated tissues”, J. Biomed. Opt. 15, 047009 (Aug 02, 2010)

19. Satish Malathi, Nivesh Mangal, Shafeeq S, Rajini V Honnungar, T Srinivas, “SOI strip waveguide microring resonator for homogenous biosensing”, SPIE Optics and Photonics 2011 (8129-09)