Mesoscopic and Condensed Matter Physics

Biography

Mukul Chandra Paul is a principal scientist (Associate professor) at the Fiber Optics and Photonics Division, Central Glass & Ceramic research Institute, Jadavpur, Kolkata-32 (INDIA) where he has been employed as a Scientist since 1997. He obtained his MSc (Inorganic Chemistry) with honours from University of Burdwan and his PhD degree in Fiber Optics from the Jadavpur University in 2003. His research work was focused on doping of rare-earths specifically Er and Yb into different nano-engineered hosts such as ZrO2 and Y2O3 as well as Ag and Bi metal doped silica based core glass of optical preform through solution doping technique followed by MCVD process for making of fiber optic based devices such as fiber laser and optical amplifier. His research work also focused in the field of development of various type of optical preforms for making of specialty optical fiber based device and component such as development of gain-flattened Er doped fiber (EDF) for use in C-band optical amplifier, development of suitable photosensitive optical fibers such as GeO2 doped , GeO2-B2O3 doped, Cladding mode suppressed(CMS) fibers for writing Bragg-grating to be used as temperature sensor, gain-flattening filter etc. In 2005 he was awarded the BOYSCAST Fellowship from department of Science and Technology (DST). He also awarded for CSIR Technology Award - 2012 (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, India) for “Development of completely packaged commercial-grade C-band Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFA) for CATV and Telecom Networks”. He was Awarded for DST-UKIERI Award-2013 to initiate joint collaborative research work on Active multicore components for next generation optical communications and sensing” with Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh , UK. Recently received CSIR Technology Award-2015 as a group member for the Category of Innovation to develop “Completely packaged all-fiber supercontinuum light source” He is a member of Optical Society of America, American ceramic society, IEEE and life member of Material Research Society of India and Indian Ceramic Society. He has published more than 150 number of papers in SCI journals and Conferences. He also published 7 Book chapters. He holds 7 US patents and filed 4 Indian patents. He is involved to several collaborative project with different countries such as UK, Mexico, Malaysia, etc.

Research Interest

1. Metal nano-particles doped rare-earths co-doped optical fiber for making of fiber laser in visible region 2. Rare-earths doped nano-engineering glass based optical fiber based on yttria-alumino-silicate glass host for making of high power fiber laser 3. Rare-earths doped nano-engineering glass based optical fiber based on zirconia-yttria-alumino-silicate glass host for making of high power optical amplifier 4. Chromium doped YAG nano-engineering glass based optical fiber for making of broad band light source. 5. Development of novel nano-engineered silica glass based Yb2O3 doped optical fiber with low photo darkening phenomena for high power fiber laser 6. Development of multicore rare-earths doped optical fiber for making of mode-locked multi wavelength fiber laser . 7. Development of large mode area EDF for high power optical amplifier as well as pico second pulse fiber laser. 8. Bismuth doped multi-element glass based optical fiber for making of broad band light source within 1100- 1500nm. 9. Enhancement of radiation sensitivity of optical fiber through modification of the doping host with glass-ceramic nature for use in personal dosimetry.