ILA Awards for the year 2002

ILA Awards for the year 2002


The following Best Thesis and Best Poster Prizes for the year 2002 were awarded by Indian Laser Association during the National Laser Symposium - 2002 at Thiruvanathpuram, Kerela:
The Best Thesis award is sponsored by M/S Laser spectra Services ,Bangalore.
The Best Poster award is sponsored by Late Prof. Vivek Srinivas Memorial Fund.

The Best Thesis Award is shared by :

  1. Dr. (Ms) A. Deepthy from IISc. Bangalore for her thesis "Growth and physical properties of nonlinear optical KTP and ferroelectric GPI crystals".
  2. Dr. Tarun K Sharma from CAT, Indore for his thesis "Metal Organic Vapour phase epitaxial growth of III-V semiconductors".
Best Poster Award is shared by:
  1. Poster 3.12 : "Millimeter-wave free electron laser experiment at IPR" KK Jain, KK Mohandas and RAV Kumar, IPR, Ahmedabad.
  2. Poster 2.37 : "A new methylene blue doped polymer blend for holographic applications" M. Ushamani, NG Leena Deenja, K Sreekumar, C Sudha Kartha and Rani Joseph, CUSAT, Cochin.

In view of the tough competition this year, the judges have recommended that the following posters be awarded certificates of merit/appreciation.

  1. P-1.4 : Switchless operation of a TEA CO2 Laser
    DJ Biswas and JP Nilaya

  2. P-1.15 : Measurement of pulse-front tilt across a femtosecond laser beam
    M Raghuramaiah, AK Sharma, PA Naik and PD Gupta

  3. P-1.31 : Online monitoring of CO2 Laser welding ..
    CS Viswanadham, M Arumugam, GL Goswami

  4. P-1.79 : Nonlinear optical fringes in porous silicon
    S Prusty, AK Shukla, HS Mavi and SC Abbi

  5. P-2.15 : Synthesis of new and highly fluorescent laser dyes of Xanthene class
    RP Gaitonde, MJ Karai, VR Kanetkar, AK Roy and S Sasikumar

  6. P-2.11 : A 146 W diffraction limited copper vapour laser ..
    Omprakash, SK Dixit, S Talar, NM Shenoy, GN Tiwari, SV Nakhe, R Mahakud, GS Purbia, R Bhatnagar

  7. P-2.75 : Salt induced aggregation and enhanced optical limiting in a carbon black suspension.
    SK Tiwari, MP Joshi, S Nath and SC Mehendale
    Awards for the year 2001  2003