Best Thesis awards: Everey year, M/s Laser
Spectra Services, Bangalore sponsors the
BEST THESIS award at National Laser Symposium.
Best thesis awards for 2008 was awarded to:
1. Demonstration of a broadband source based
on a filter-less fiber laser
DEEPA VENKITESH1,2 and R.VIJAYA1
1 Department of Physics, Indian Institute
of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076
2 VES College of Arts, Science and Commerce,
Sindhi Society, Chembur, Mumbai 400071
Corresponding Author email : rvijaya@phy.iitb.ac.in
2. Studies on Thin Films and Quantum Structures of ZnO Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition
PANKAJ MISRA*
Laser Materials Processing Division
Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology,
Indore 452 013
*email: pmisra@rrcat.gov.in
3. Fabrication and Characterization of Dye
Sensitized Polymer Films for Holographic
Applications
Beena Mary John*
Department of Physics, Cochin University
of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala-682
022, INDIA
* email: beenamary@gmail.com
4.
Study of Autoionization and Rydberg States
of Europium Atom By Laser Photoionization
Spectroscopy
Soumen Bhattacharyya
Spectroscopy Division, Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre,
email: sbhatt@barc.gov.in
Best Poster awards: From 2006 onwards M/s
Laser Science, Mumbai sponsors these awards.
Best Poster awards for 2008 was awarded to:
1. Development of a compact 100Hz XeCl (308
nm) Excimer Laser
N.S.BENERJI* , N.VARSHNAY, AND J.K.MITTAL
Chemical and Excimer Laser Section
Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology,
Indore-452013, M.P
*Email: nsb@rrcat.gov.in
2. Effect of photonic stop band on the emission
of Rhodamine dye
SUNITA KEDIA1, R.VIJAYA1*, A.K. RAY2 AND
SUCHARITA SINHA2
1Department of Physics, Indian Institute
of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076,
India
2Laser and Plasma Technology division, Bhabha
Atomic Research Center, Mumbai 400085, India
*Email: rvijaya@phy.iitb.ac.in
3.Laser micro-welding of Brachytherapy assembly
having high dose rate source
B. N. Upadhyaya1*, M. K. Mishra2, S. C. Vishwakarma1,
R. K. Jain1, A. Choubey1, D. K. Agrawal1,
D. N. Badodkar2, Manjit Singh2, K.V.S. Sastry3,
B. N. Patil3, S.M.Oak1
1Solid State Laser Division, Raja Ramanna
Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore-452013
2DRHR, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
3Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology,
Mumbai
*E-mail: bnand@rrcat.gov.in
4. Highly collimated and mono-energetic electron
beam
from laser wakefield electron acceleration
B. S. Rao, A. Moorti, P. A. Naik, R. K. Bhat,
and P. D. Gupta
Laser Plasma Division, Raja Ramanna Centre
for Advanced Technology, Indore-452013
Email: sunnyb@rrcat.gov.in
5. Control of laser induced molecular fragmentation
using chirped ultrafast laser pulses:
Tapas Goswami*, S. K. Karthick Kumar and
Debabrata Goswami
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute
of Technology Kanpur, UP - 208016, India
*E-mail: tgoswami@iitk.ac.in.
6. Single Channel LRF for Airborne Defence
Platforms
SUSHIL KUMAR, SHAILENDRA SINGH YADAV, NIRAJ
BHARGAVA, SP GABA
Instrument Research and Development Establishment,
Dehradun - 248008, INDIA
Email: {sushil, shailendra, nbhargava, spgaba}@irde.res.in