The Bio-Optics and Nano-Photonics Group of IISER-K

Weak measurement

• Amplification of spin-optical effects E.g. optical spin Hall effect.
• Quantitavite detection of tiny polarization anisotopy effects.
• Natural weak value amplification of magneto-optical effects.
• Weak measurement using spectral degree of freedom of light.

Nano-optics

• Basic studies on light-matter interactions at the nano scale.
• studies on localized surface plasmon resonance in metal nano-structures.
• Studies on coupled plasmons, plasmonic Fano resonances.
• Spin Orbit interaction of light in micro and nano optical systems.

Singular optics

• Genarating orbital angular momentum carrying beam using spatially tailored metasurfaces.
• Orbital Hall effects of light.

Computational optics

• FEM & FDTD simulation for studying optical responses.
• Simulation of Mueller matrix for the desired smaples.

Polarization optics

• Basic studies on polarization (spin)optical effects.
• Theoretical and experimental studies on polarization (Mueller matrices, Stokes vectors, Jones matrices) and coherence characteristics of scattered light in random medium.

Biophotonics

• Develop novel optical spectroscopic approaches to probe sub-diffractional information on the morphology of complex systems such as biological tissues.
• Mueller matrix polarimetry and its applications in biophotonics.
• Investigate various optical spectroscopic approaches (Elastic scattering, Fluorescence, Raman) for probing biological systems and other complex systems.