Advances in Optical Science and Engineering

Preface.- Dedication.- About the editors.- Conference Organizing Committee.- Table of Contents.- Part I Keynote Address.- Part II Plenary Address.- Part III Green Photonics.- Part IV Fibre and Integrated Optics.- Part V Lasers, Interferometry, Imaging, Devices.- Part VI Optical Communication and Networks.- Part VII Optical and Digital Data and Image Processing.- Part VIII Opto-Electronic Devices, Terahertz Technology.- Part IX Nano-Photonics, Bio-Photonics, Bio-medical Optics.- Part X Lasers, Quantum Optics and Information Technology.- Part XI E.M.Radiation Theory and Antenna.- Part XII Cryptography, Micro-Electronics & VLSI.- Part XIII Nonlinear Optics, Opto-Electronic Devices.- Part XIV Non-Linear Waveguides, Optical Fiber Devices, Photonic Crystal.- Part XV Optical and Digital Image Processing Devices.- Part XVI Micro-Electronics and VLSI.- Part XVII Interdisciplinary, Lasers, Interferometry and Devices.- Author Index.

Indrani Bhattacharya is Associate Professor and Head, Research and Development Cell, University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India, the newly formed University by well- known Institute of Engineering & Management Group (www.iem.edu.in). Ms. Bhattacharya has secured her M.Sc. (Tech) degree from the Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta in Applied Physics with specialization in Opto-electronics in 1988. Ms. Bhattacharya is pursuing her Ph.D. (Tech) from Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta under the guidance of Emeritus Professor Prof. Lakshminarayan Hazra. Ms. Bhattacharya has a long professional experience (~20 years) working as a Research Scientist and Engineer in a leading Telecom Industry in India. She has experience in study, development and characterization of Fused Fibre Optics Biconical Taper Couplers, Optical Fibre Joint Boxes, Slotted core and loose tube fibre optic cables. Ms. Bhattacharya is trained in UNIX, SYBASE, ORACLE with Developer 2000. Ms. Bhattacharya is the Faculty Adviser of SPIE and OSA approved IEM-UEMK Group Student Chapters and she has been enlisted as Women in Optics in the year planner 2016-17 published by SPIE. Prof. Bhattacharya is the Co-coordinator of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India sponsored INSPIRE (INnovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research) Science Internship Program, "The Enchanting World of Science" in IEM / UEMK. Ms. Bhattacharya has published ten research works in scientific journals including Conference publications starting from 2011. Her interest of research area includes PSF Engineering, Optical Macro- and Micro-Trapping, Bio-Medical Applications, Light-Matter Interactions, Quantum Computing, Optical Fibre Technology, Nano-Photonics, Solar Concentrator Optics, and so on. Ms. Bhattacharya is the member of Optical Society of India, Optical Society of America, Society of Photonics and Instrumentation Engineering (SPIE) and