EXPERIENCE

* Professor of Dept. of Electrical Engineering

IIT Kanpur (Dec. 1995 - present)

* Head of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Advanced Centre for Electronic Sciences

IIT Kanpur (Jan. 2003 - Jan 2006)

* Head of Centre for Laser Technology and Laser Technology Program

IIT Kanpur (Jan. 1995 - Apr. 1998)

* Associate Professor of Dept. of Electrical Engineering

IIT Kanpur (Aug. 1993 - Dec. 1995).

 

* Senior Fellow of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Div of Communication Engineering,

Nanyang Technological University (July 2000 - July 2001), on leave from IIT Kanpur.

* Senior Fellow of the School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Div. Of Engineering Mechanics,

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (July 1999 - June 2000), on leave from IIT Kanpur.

 

* Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA (June 1986 - Aug. 1993).

 

* Member of Technical Staff

AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA (May 1984-May 1986).

 


SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

 IEEE

Optical Soc. of America

Intl. Soc. Optical Eng. (SPIE)

IETE

Opt. Soc. of India.

 

TECHNOLOGY DISCLOSURES

[1]  "Continuous Wireless Monitoring of the Cervical Dilation of a Pregnant Woman" - submitted to  Office of Technology Development, University of Oklahoma, 2007.

[2] "A Free Space Optics Based Identification and Interrogation System" - submitted to  Office of Technlogy Development, University of Oklahoma, 2007.

[3] "A MEMS Device for Measuring the Power and Spot-size of a Laser Beam" - to be submitted to Intellectual Property Evaluation Committee, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2008.

 [4] "A nanomaterial based fiber optic sensor for mointoring high current" - to be submitted to Office of Technology Development, university of Oklahoma, 2008.

 

PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

 [1] A. Ghosh and D. Casasent, "Triangular System Solutions on a Systolic Optical Processor", Applied Optics, Vol. 22, pp. 1795-1796, June 1983.

[2] D. Casasent and A. Ghosh, "LU and Cholesky Decompositions on an Optical Systolic Array Processor", Optics Communications, Vol. 46, pp. 270-273, July 1983.

[3] D. Casasent and A. Ghosh, "Direct and Implicit Optical Matrix-Vector Algorithms", Applied Optics, Vol. 22, pp. 3572-3578, Nov. 1983.

[4] D. Casasent and A. Ghosh, "Addendum - Direct and Implicit Optical Matrix-Vector Algorithms", Applied Optics, Vol. 23, p. 1450, May 1984.

[5] D. Casasent and A. Ghosh, "Optical Linear Algebra Processors: Noise and Error-source Modeling", Optics Letters, Vol. 10, pp. 252-254, June 1985.

[6] A. Ghosh, D. Casasent and C. Neuman, "Performance of Direct and Iterative Algorithms on an Optical Systolic Processor", Applied Optics, Vol. 24, pp. 3883-3892, Nov. 1985.

[7] D. Casasent, A. Ghosh and C. Neuman, "A Quadratic Matrix Algorithm for Linear Algebra Processors", Journal of Large-Scale Systems, Vol. 9, pp. 35-49, 1985.

[8] A. Ghosh, "Realization of Conjugate Gradient Algorithm on Optical Linear Algebra Processor", Applied Optics, Vol. 26, pp. 611-613, Feb. 1987.

[9] S. Dasgupta, A. Ghosh and R. Cuykendall, "Convergence in Neural Memories", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 35, pp. 1069-1072, Sept 1989.

[10] A. Ghosh and P. Paparao, "Matrix Pre-conditioning - A Robust Operation for Optical Linear Algebra Processors", Applied Optics, Vol. 26, pp. 2734-2737, July 1987.

[11] A. Ghosh, "Binary Vector Multiplications with Nonlinear Optical Interfaces", Applied Optics, Vol. 26, pp. 3195-3197, Aug. 1987.

[12] A. Ghosh and P. Paparao, "Performance Analysis of Matrix Preconditioning Algorithms on Parallel Optical Processors", Journal of Optical Society of America, A., Vol. 5, pp. 39-48, Jan. 1988.

[13] D. Casasent and A. Ghosh, "Reduced Sensitivity Algorithm for Optical Processors Using Constraints and Ridge Regression", Applied Optics, Vol. 27, pp. 1607-1611, Apr. 1988.

[14] A. Ghosh, "Realization of Preconditioned Lanczos and Conjugate-Gradient Algorithms on Optical Linear Algebra Processors", Applied Optics, Vol. 27, pp. 3142-3148, Aug. 1988.

[15] A. Ghosh and T.S. Chiun, "Almost Necessary Conditions for Optical Neural Networks", Applied Optics, Vol . 27, pp. 5002-5004, Dec. 1988.

[16] P. Paparao and A. Ghosh, "A Split-Step Algorithm for Matrix Preconditioning and Inversion on Systolic Arrays", Institute of Electrical Eng. Proceeding - E, Computers and Digital Techniques, Vol. 136, part E, pp. 205-210, May 1989.

Invited Paper :

[17] A. Ghosh and P. Paparao, "High Speed Matrix Preprocessing on Analog Optical Associative Processors", Optical Engineering (Special issue on Optical Computing), Vol. 28, Apr. 1989, pp. 354-363.

[18] A. Ghosh, S. Allen and P. Paparao, " Arithmetic Fourier Transform Calculation using Fiber Optical Parallel Processors", Journal of the Optical Society of America, A, Vol. 7, pp. 701-707, Apr. 1990.

[19] A. Ghosh, "Adaptive Optical Processors", Optics Letters, Vol. 14, pp. 604-606, Jun 1989.

[20] A. Ghosh, "Alignability of Optical Interconnects", Applied Optics, Vol. 29, pp. 5253-5261, Dec. 1990.

[21] K. Imen, C. Lee, Y. Yang, S. Allen, and A. Ghosh, "Laser Fabricated Fiber Optic Taps", Optics Letters, Vol. 15, pp. 950-952, Sept. 1990.

[22] P. Paparao, A. Ghosh, and S. Allen, "Design and Performance Optimization of Fiber Optic Adaptive Filters", Applied Optics, Vol. 30, pp. 1826-1838, May 1991.

[23] A. Ghosh, M. B. Lapis, and D. Aossey, "Planar Integration of Joint Transform Correlators", Electronics Letters, Vol. 27, pp. 871-872, May 1991.

[24] P. Paparao and A. Ghosh, "An Improved Arithmetic Fourier Transform Algorithm for Lightwave Signals", Applied Optics, Vol. 30, pp. 5115-5118, Dec. 1991.

[25] A. Ghosh and S. Frank, "Design and Performance Analysis of Fiber Optic IIR Filters", Applied Optics, Vol. 31, pp. 4700-4711, Aug. 1992.

[26] A. Ghosh and P. Paparao, "Preconditioning of Real-time Optical Wiener Filters for Array Processing", Optics Communications, Vol. 91, pp. 293-303, Jul. 1992.

[27] A. Ghosh, J. Barner, and P. Paparao, "Design of Adaptive Optical Equalizers for Fiber Optic Communication Systems", Optics Communications, Vol. 91, pp. 280-292, Jul. 1992.

[28] A. Ghosh and P. Paparao, "Performance of the Faddeev Algorithm on Optical Processors", Institute of Electrical Eng. Proceeding-J, Optoelectronics, Vol. 139, pp. 325-330, Oct. 1992.

[29] Q. Song, P.P. Banerjee, J. Lin, and A. Ghosh, "Noise Analysis of Photorefractive Holograms under Gaussian Beam Illumination", Journal of Modern Optics, Vol. 39, pp. 1977-1983, Sept. 1992.

[30] R. Beech and A. Ghosh, "Optimization of Alignability in Integrated Planar Optical Interconnect Packages", Applied Optics, Vol. 32, pp. 5741-5749, Oct. 1993.

[31] R. Beech and A. Ghosh, "Alignability versus bandwidth and bit-error-rate for optical interconnects", Optics Communications, Vol. 102, pp. 351-359, Sept. 1993.

[32] A. Ghosh , " Alignment Considerations in the Package Design of Optical Interconnects", IETE Technical Review, Vol. 13, pp. 163-177, May-June 1996.

[33] A. Ghosh and J. Trepka, "Fiber Optic Adaline Neural Networks", Optical Engineering, Vol. 36, pp. 843-848, Mar. 1997.

[34] A. Ghosh and P. Paparao, "Design of Acousto- Optic IIR Filters for Line Enhancement", Optical Engineering, Vol. 36, pp. 2579-2585, Sept. 1997.

[35] A. Ghosh and P. Paul, "Alignment Considerations in Extrinsic Fiber Optic Sensors", Applied Optics, Vol. 36, pp. 6256-6263, Sept. 1997.

[36] A. Ghosh, "Describing Functions of Nonlinear Optical Processors", Applied Optics, Vol. 36, pp. 7359- 7563, Oct. 1997.

[37] A. Ghosh and S. Sonakia, "Performance Analysis of Acousto-optic Digital Signal Processors Using the Describing Function Approach", IETE Journal of Research, Vol. 44, pp. 3-12, Jan-Apr. 1998.

[38] A. Ghosh, N. Singh and P.K. Paul, "Package Design for Low Cost Optical Liquid Level Sensors", Optical Engineering, Vol 39, pp. 1405-1412, May 2000.

[39] A. Ghosh and K. Patil, “The Radiation of Light from Laser machined Taps on Optical Fibers", IETE Journal of Research, Vol 49, pp. 359-364, Nov.-Dec. 2003.

[40] A. Ghosh and S. Pal, "Optimal actuation of micro-cantilevers by laser radiation pressure", Electronics Letters, Vol. 42, pp. 580-581, May 2006.

[41] A. Ghosh, "A model of power distribution in a multimode optical fiber with radiative taps", in press.

[42] A. Ghosh, "Crosstalk in array-based free-space optical interconnect and processor packages", in press.

[43] A. Ghosh, "Misalignments in array-based optical interconnects and processor packages", in press.

[44] A. Banerjee, S. Mukherjee, B. Jana, R. Verma, T. Khan, M. Chakroborty, R. Das, S. Biswas, A. Saxena, V. Singh, S. Kumar, V. Saxena, A. Ghosh, J. John, P. Gupta-Bhaya, "Fiber Optic Sensing of Liquid Refractive Index", to appear in Sensors and Actuators A, 2006.

 

 

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ARTICLES/ TALKS

 [1] D. Casasent and A. Ghosh, "Optical Linear Algebra", Adv. in Optical Information Processing: Proc. SPIE, Vol. 388, pp. 182-189, Jan. 1983.

[2] D. Casasent, A. Ghosh and C. Neuman, "Direct and Indirect Optical Solutions to Linear Algebraic Equations: Error Source Modeling", Real Time Signal Processing (VI): Proc. SPIE, Vol. 431, pp. 201-208, Aug. 1983.

[3] D. Casasent, A. Ghosh and C. Neuman, "Iterative Solutions to Nonlinear Matrix Equations Using a Fixed Number of Steps", Real Time Signal Processing (VII): Proc. SPIE, Vol. 495, pp. 102-108, Aug. 1984.

[4] A. Ghosh, "Matrix Pre-conditioning on Optical Linear Algebra Processors", Proceedings of 24th Annual Allerton Conference, pp. 184-192, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986.

Invited Paper:

[5] S. Dasgupta, A. Ghosh and R. Cuykendall, "Convergence in Neural Memories", Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 366-369, 1987.

[6] A. Ghosh and P. Paparao, "Parallel Matrix Computations Using Two-dimensional Spatial Light Modulators", Proceedings of International Symposium on Electronic Devices, Circuits and Systems, Kharagpur, Vol. 2, pp. 311-313, 1987.

[7] A. Ghosh, "Binary Vector Multiplication with Nonlinear Optical Interfaces", Real Time Signal Processing (X): Proc. SPIE., Vol. 827, pp. 167-171, Aug. 1987.

[8] A. Ghosh, "Realization of Lanczos and Conjugate Gradient Algorithms on Optical Linear Algebra Processors", Real Time Signal Processing (X): Proc. SPIE., Vol. 827, pp. 208-215, Aug. 1987.

[9] A. Ghosh, "Performance Analysis of Matrix Preconditioning Algorithms on Parallel Optical Processor", Hybrid Image and Signal Processing: Proc. SPIE, Vol. 939, pp. 19-28, Apr. 1988.

[10] A. Ghosh, S. Allen and P. Paparao, "The Arithmetic Fourier Transform Calculation Using Fiber Optic Parallel Processors", High Speed Computing II: Proc. SPIE, Vol. 1058, pp. 62-69, Jan. 1989.

[11] A. Ghosh, S. Prakash and P. Paparao, "Performance of the Faddeva Algorithm on Optical Linear Algebra Processors", High Speed Computing II: Proc. SPIE, Vol. 1058, pp. 209-216, Jan. 1989.

[12] A. Ghosh, "Intelligent Optical Processors", Technical Digest of the OSA Topical Meeting on Optical Computing, Vol. 9, pp. 262-265, Feb. 1989.

[13] A. Ghosh, "Design of Fiber Optic Adaptive Filters and Neural Networks", Technical Digest of 1989 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, Vol. 18, pp. 129, Oct. 1989.

[14] A. Ghosh and P. Paparao, "Efficient Optical Preprocessing using Split-step Algorithms", in above, pp. 108.

[15] A. Ghosh, S. Lisle, and S. D. Allen, "Guidelines for the Design of Fiber Optic Transversal Filters", in above, pp. 64.

[16] A. Ghosh and K. Erickson, "An Expert System for the Design of Fiber Optic Interconnections",in above, pp. 89.

[17] A. Ghosh, "Alignability of Optical Interconnects", in above, pp. 51.

[18] S. D. Allen, A. Ghosh, P. Paparao, and K. Imen, "Laser Fabrication of Fiber Optic Signal Processing Devices", presented in the SPIE Conference Optical Engineering - Midwest, Chicago, Nov. 1989.

[19] R. Beech and A. Ghosh, "Alignment of Gaussian Beams in Optical Interconnects", in above.

[20] P. Paparao and A. Ghosh, "Performance Optimization of Fiber Optic Adaptive Filters", Optical Computing, Conference Record of 1990 International Topical Meeting, The Japan Soc. of Applied Physics, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 311-312,1990.

[21] J. Barner, A. Ghosh, and S. Allen, "Adaptive Optical Equalization for Fiber Optic Communication", presented in 1990 Annual Meeting of Iowa Academy of Science, Des Moines, Program Abstracts, p. A-30, 1990.

[22] S. Frank and A. Ghosh, "Design of Infinite Impulse Response Filters using Fiber Optic Tapped Delay Lines", in above.

[23] P. Paparao and A. Ghosh, "An Improved Arithmetic Fourier Transform Algorithm", Optical Information Processing Systems and Architectures II: Proc. SPIE., Vol. 1347, pp. 549-559, July 1990.

[24] A. Ghosh and S. Frank, "Design of Infinite Impulse Response Filters using Fiber Optic Tapped Delay Lines", Optical Information Processing Systems and Architectures II: Proc. SPIE., Vol. 1347, pp. 514-525, July 1990.

[25] K. Imen, C. Lee, Y. Yang, S. Allen, and A. Ghosh, "Laser Fabricated Fiber Optical Taps for Interconnect and Optical Data Processing Devices", Components for Fiber Optic Applications V: Proc. SPIE., Vol. 1365, pp. 60-64, Sept. 1990.

[26] A. Ghosh, J. Barner, P. Paparao, S. Allen, and K. Imen, "Adaptive Optical Equalization Techniques for Fiber Optic Communication", High Frequency Analog Fiber Optic Systems: Proc. SPIE, Vol. 1371, pp. 170-181, Sept. 1990.

[27] A. Ghosh and R. Beech, "Analysis of Alignment in Optical Communication Systems", Microelectronic Interconnects and Packages: Optical and Electrical Technologies: Proc. SPIE., Vol. 1389, pp. 630-641, Nov. 1990.

[28] A. Ghosh and P. Paparao, "Preconditioning of Real-time Optical Wiener Filters for Array Processing", Technical Digest of 1990 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, Vol. 19, pp. 269, Nov. 1990.

[29] C. Lee, K. Imen, S. Allen, and A. Ghosh, "Laser Micromachining of Fiber Optic Taps", Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1991 Tech. Digest Series, Vol. 10, Optical Soc. of America, pp. 424-425, 1991.

[30] A. Ghosh, "Fault Tolerance of Optoelectronic Neural Networks", to appear in Optical Enhancements to Computing Technology: Proc. SPIE., Vol. 1563, July 1991.

[31] A. Ghosh, "Realization of IIR Filters using Acousto-Optic Cells", Optical Information Processing Systems and Architectures III: Proc. SPIE., Vol. 1564, pp. 593-601, July 1991.

[32] A. Ghosh, "Compact Joint Transform Correlators in Planar Integrated Packages", in above, pp. 231-235.

[33] A. Ghosh, "Design and performance Analysis of Optoelectronic Adaptive IIR Filters", Adaptive Signal Processing: Proc. SPIE., Vol. 1565, July 1991.

[34] A. Ghosh, "Design of Lensless Joint Transform Correlators", Post-Deadline paper PD11, LEOS'91 Conference Digest, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, IEEE Catalog#91CH2949-6, Nov. 1991.

[35] A. Ghosh, P.P. Banerjee, Q. Song, and J. Lin, "The Effect of Noise on Photorefractive Grating Readout", Emerging Optoelectronic Technologies: Proc. SPIE., Vol. 1622, Dec. 1991.

[36] A. Ghosh and P. Paparao, "Design of Acousto-optic IIR Filters for Line Enhancement", Photonics '92: Proc. of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Photonic Networks, Components and Applications, pp. 3.15.1-3.15.6, March 1992.

Plenary paper:

[37] R. Beech and A. Ghosh, "Alignment Analysis of Integrated Planar Optical Interconnects", in above, pp. 1.18.1-1.18.10.

[38] C. Lee, K. Imen, S. Allen, and A. Ghosh, "The Effect of Geometry on Laser Micromachined Fiber Optic Tap Output", Post- Deadline Paper, Technical Digest of 1992 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 1992.

[39] A. Ghosh and R. Beech, "Alignability vs. Space-Bandwidth Product for Optical Interconnects", Photonics for Computers, Neural Networks, and Memories: Proc. SPIE, Vol. 1773, July 1992.

[40] A. Ghosh, J. Trepka, and P. Paparao, "Design of Neural Networks Using Fiber Optic Tapped Delay Lines", in above.

[41] A. Ghosh, "All Optical Processing of Lightwave Signals using Erbium-doped Fiber Amplifiers", Technical Digest of 1992 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, p. 200, Sept. 1992.

[42] A. Ghosh and R. Beech, "Optimization of the Alignability of Planar-optical Backplane Interconnect Packages", in above, p. 114.

[43] C. Lee, K. Imen, S.D. Allen, and A. Ghosh, "Laser Fabricated Taps on Single Mode Optical Fibers", Technical Digest of OFC/IOOC 1993.

[44] A. Ghosh and R. Beech, "Alignability versus signal density in integrated planar optical interconnect packages", Tech. Digest of OSA Topical Meeting on Optical Design for Photonics, pp. 163-166, Mar. 1993.

Invited Paper:

[45] A. Ghosh and R. Beech, "Alignment Considerations in the Package Design of Optical Interconnects", Proc. of IEEE LEOS Summer Topical Meeting on Hybrid Optoelectronic Integration and Packaging, Jul. 1993.

Invited Talk:

[46] A. Ghosh, "Fiber Optic Signal Processing", presented in OPERATE-93, All India Seminar on Optoelectronics - Education, Research, Technology, Lucknow, Dec. 1993.

Invited Paper:

[47] A. Ghosh and L. Chaffe, "Performance Analysis of Acousto-Optic IIR Filters for RF Signal Processing", Proc. Conf. on Emerging Optoelectronic Technologies, IISc, Bangalore, pp. 79-81, Jul. 1994.

[48] A. Ghosh, S. Majumdar and A. Lahiri, "PC Based Software for Visualizing Optical Signal Processing", Proc. National Conference on Optical Communications, JK Inst. of Tech., Allahabad, pp. 160-166, Feb. 1995.

[49] A. Ghosh and R. Sharma, "Improvement in the Performance of a Joint Transform Correlator using Nonlinear Recording", in above, pp. 167-174, Feb. 1995.

[50] A. Ghosh and K. Patil, "Investigations in the Behavior of laser Fabricated Fiber Optic Taps", in above, pp. 99-106, Feb. 1995.

[51] A. Ghosh, K. Erickson, R. Kumar and N. Behera, "An Expert System for the Design and Analysis of Fiber Optic Data Links", in above, pp. 91, Feb. 1995.

[52] A. Ghosh and M. R. Abidi, "Design of Fiber Optic Transversal Filters with Nonuniform Tap Spacing" presented in the XXII National Symposium of Optical Soc. of India, Chandigarh, Mar. 1995.

[53] A. Ghosh and P. Oommen, "A Neural Network based Optical Decoder for Fiber Optic Code Division Multiple Access Communication Systems", in above, Mar. 1995.

Invited Paper:

[54] A. Ghosh and P. Paul, "Fiber Optic Current and Voltage Sensors", Proc. IEEE Workshop on Parameter Identification for Condition Monitoring of Electrical Systems (PICMES-95), Inst. of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Dec. 1995.

Invited Talk:

[55] A. Ghosh, "Fiber Optic Signal Processing", presented in the National Symposium on Fiber Optic Communication, Networking, and Sensors, IIT Kanpur, Dec. 1995.

Plenary talk:

[56] A. Ghosh, "Role of IEEE", XI National Convention of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers & National Seminar on Need of Interaction for the Growth of Electronics and Telecom Industry, Lucknow, Nov. 1995.

[57] A. Ghosh and P. Paul, "Alignability of Gaussian Beams in Optoelectronic Packages", presented in XXIII National Symposium of the Optical Society of India, I.R.D.E., Dehra Dun, Mar. 1996.

[58] A. Ghosh and R. Tiwari, "Computational Aspects of Fractional Fourier Transforms", presented in above conference.

[59] A. Ghosh, A. K. Mohanty, S. Joshi, and S. Jit, "Calculation and Visualization of Optical Fields in Transmitter Packages", presented in above conference.

[60] A. Ghosh and M. Basha, "Dispersion Characteristics of Optical Fibers with Laser Etched Taps on Cladding", presented in above conference.

[61] A. Ghosh and M. R. Abidi, "Design of Fiber Optic Transversal Filters with Nonuniform Tap Spacing using Prony's Method", presented in above conference.

[62] A. Ghosh and S. Bhattacharjee, "Design of a Fiber Optic Tapped Delay Line Spectrum Analyzer", presented in above conference.

[63] A. Ghosh and P. Paul, "Alignment Considerations in the Packaging of Extrinsic Optical Sensors", Proceedings of National Conference on Sensors and Transducers, CSIO Chandigarh, pp. 49 - 69, Sept. 1996.

Invited Talk:

[64] A. Ghosh, "Fiber Optic Sensors", presented in National Conference on Sensors and Transducers, CSIO Chandigarh, Sept. 1996.

[65] A. Ghosh and P. Paul, "Alignability versus Performance of Optical Packages with a Gaussian Beam and a Gaussian Device", Proceedings of Intl. Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics (Photonics - 96) , IIT Madras, Dec. 1996.

[66] A. Ghosh and S. Sonakia, "Performance Analysis of Acousto-Optic Digital Filters", presented in above.

[67] A. Ghosh and S. Bhattacharjee, "Analysis of Fiber Optical Spectrum Analyzers for Femtosecond Pulses", presented in above.

[68] A. Ghosh and R. Tiwari, "Fractional Fourier Transform Based Optical Joint Transform Correlators", presented in above.

[69] A. Ghosh and M. Basha, "Dispersion Characteristics of Fiber Optic Tapped Delay Lines", presented in above.

Invited Talk:

[70] A. Ghosh, "Fiber Optic Sensors", presented in Conf. on Impact of Electronics on Automation, University of Roorkee, Jan. 20 -21, 1997.

[71] A. Ghosh and P. Paul, "Alignability of a Linear Array of Sources with an Array of Optical Receptors", presented in XXIV National Symposium of the Optical Society of India, Calcutta, Jan. 1997.

[72] A. Ghosh and P. Pal, "Design and Performance Analysis of All-Optical Sagnac Logic Gates", presented in above.

[73] A. Ghosh and S. Sikdar, " Designing the Electronics for a Fiber Optic Neural Network", presented in above.

[74] M. R. Abidi and A. Ghosh, "Guidelines for Designing Transversal Filters with Nonuniform Tap Spacing", Proc. National Communication Conference (NCC-97), Feb. 1997.

[75] A. Ghosh, "Describing Functions of Nonlinear Optical Systems", Proc. National Laser Symposium 1997, Feb. 1997.

[76] A. Ghosh and P. Paul, "Misalignment Tolerant Packaging of Free-Space Optical Interconnects and Sensors using Detector Arrays", Tech. Digest of 1998 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, Baltimore, Oct. 1998.

[77] A. Ghosh, "Applications of Describing Functions in Designing Nonlinear Optical Systems", in above.

[78] A. Ghosh and M.R. Abidi, "Designing Optical Transversal Filters with Nonuniform Tap Spacing", in above.

Invited Talk:

[79] A. Ghosh, "Optical Signal Processing", presented in the IE(I) and IEEE UP Section  Symposium on Applications of Signal Processing, Lucknow, Sept. 1998.

Invited Talk:

[80] A. Ghosh, "Fiber Optic Loop Mirror", presented in the National Laser Symposium, Kanpur, Dec. 1998.

[81] A. Ghosh and P.K. Paul, "Packaging of Optoelectronic Arrays", presented in Photonics 98, New Delhi, Dec. 1998.

[82] A. Ghosh, "Planar Integrated Optical Processor based Biomedical Sensors", 1999 IEEE LEOS Conference Proceeding, IEEE Catalog No. 99CH37009, pp. 249-250, IEEE, Piscataway, Nov. 1999.

[83] A. Ghosh, N.S. Bedi, and P. Paul, "Low Cost Optical Liquid Level Sensors", Advanced Photonic Sensors and Applications: Proc. SPIE, vol. 3897, pp. 522-533, Nov. 1999.

[84] A. Ghosh and A. Asundi, "Packaging Guidelines for a Single Fiber Probe based Reflective Sensor", Proceedings of 50th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, Las Vegas, IEEE Catalog No. 00CH37070C, pp. 1483-1485, May 2000.

[85] A. Ghosh, "Alignment Considerations in Packaging Array-based Optical Interconnects and Processors", in above, pp. 1493-1497.

[86] A. Ghosh, "Crosstalk considerations in Optical Interconnects", Microelectronic Yield, Reliability and Adv. Packaging: Proc. SPIE, vol. 4229, pp. 209-216, Nov. 2000.

Invited Paper:

[87] A. Ghosh, "Misalignment tolerant packaging of Optical Interconnection based Systems using Multiple Photodetectors", Proceedings International Photonics Conf. held in Calcutta, Dec. 2000.

[88] A. Ghosh, "Design and application of optical devices using optical fibers with radiative taps", Optical Engineering for Sensing and Nanotechnology: Proc. SPIE, vol. 4416, paper no. 83, June 2001.

[89] A. Ghosh, "Alignability of array based optical interconnects and processors", presented in OSA Annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA in Oct. 2001

[90] A. Ghosh, "Alignment tolerance in fiber optic micro-sensors", presented in SPIE Conference on Advanced Photonic Sensors and Applications II in Singapore in Nov. 2001.

[91] A. Ghosh, “Design of a low-cost distributed strain sensor using optical fibers with radiative taps” presented in XXVIII National Conf. of the Opt. Soc. of India, New Delhi, Jan 2003.

Invited Paper:

[92] A. Ghosh, “Optical processing of signals in surface plasmon based optical sensors”, presented in National Symposium on Engineering Optics, Meerut, Apr. 2003. Paper appears in pp. 63-69 of the book "Perspectives in Engineering Optics", ed. K. Singh and V.K. Rastogi, Anita Publications, New Delhi, 2003.

[93] A. Ghosh, “Optical processing of signals in surface plasmon based optical biosensors”, to appear in Optical Information Systems: Proc. SPIE, vol. 5202, paper no. 27, San Diego, Aug. 2003.

[94] A. Ghosh, “Effects of misalignments in packaging of array based optical interconnects and processors”, Optical Information Systems: Proc. SPIE, vol. 5202, paper no. 35, San Diego, Aug. 2003.

[95] A. Ghosh, V Siddarth, M Bhagat, S. Aggarwal, S. Srivastava, "Behavior of Surface Plasmon based optical bio-sensors with incoherent light sources", presented in the International Conference Photonics-04, Cochin, Dec. 2004.

[96] S. Pal and A. Ghosh, "Optimal actuation of a MEMS cantilever by a laser beam", Optomechatronic Actuators and Manipulation II: Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6374A, Oct. 2006.

[97] A. Ghosh, P. Gupta Bhaya, V. Saxena and J. John, "Design and calibration of low-cost fiber optic sensors for refractive index measurement of turbid liquids", Chemical and Biological Sensors for Industrial and Environmental Monitoring II: Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6378, Oct. 2006.

[98] A. Ghosh, P. Verma, S. Cheng and A. Venugopalan, "A free-space optics based identification and interrogation system", Proccedings of  IEEE Homeland Security Conference, Boston, MA, May 16-17, 2007.

[99] A. Ghosh, V. Siddarth, M. Bhagat, S. Aggarwal, P. Anurag and M. Jain, "Spatial Filtering with Surface Plasmon Resonance Systems", to appear in Optics and Photonics for Information Processing: Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6695, Aug. 2007.

[100] A. Venugopalan, A. Ghosh, P. Verma and S. Cheng, “Performance of an Optical identification and interrogation system”, to appear in Enabling Photonic Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications IV: Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6975, Orlando, Mar. 2008.

[101] A. Ghosh, P. Verma and A. Venugopalan, “Free space optics based sensor network design”, to appear in Proc. of NATO IST-083  Military Communications with a special focus on Tactical Communications for Network Centric Operations, Prague, Apr. 2008.

[102] P. Verma, A. Ghosh, R. Huck, S. Cheng, S. Chen, M. Martens and A. Kaul, “Continuous wireless monitoring of the cervical dilation of a pregnant woman”, to appear in Proc. 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications, Ottawa, May 2008.

  



THESES SUPERVISED

 

Ph.D.

 [1] Improving the Performance of Analog Optical Processors using Preprocessing

[2] Alignability of Optical Interconnects

[3] Design of Nonuniformly Tapped Filters for Optical Information Processing

[4] Alignability of Optical Arrays

 

MASTER’S

 At Univ. of Iowa:

[1] An Expert System for the Design of Fiber Optic Data Links

[2] Performance Analysis of Polynomial Preconditioning Algorithms on Parallel Optical Processors

[3] A Study of the Effects of Condition Number of Synaptic Matrices on Convergence of Hopfield Neural Networks

[4] Design of Infinite Impulse Response Filters using Fiber Optical Delay Lines

[5] Design and Performance Analysis of Fiber Optic Equalizers

[6] Antireflection Coatings for Planar Integrated Optical Packages

[7] Fiber Optic ADALINE Neural Networks

[8] Performance Analysis of Acousto-optic Infinite Impulse Response Filters

 

At IIT Kanpur

[9] Packaging of Fiber Optic Transversal Filters and Neural Networks

[10] Calculation of Optical Fields in Fiber Optic Transmitter and Receiver Packages: Alignment and Coupling

[11] Wavelength-Division-Demultiplexing using a Laser Made Tap on an Optical Fiber

[12] Investigations on Optical Nonlinear Joint Transform Correlators

[13] Applications of Fiber Optic Neural Networks in Code-Div. Multiple Access Communication Systems

[14] Dispersion Characteristics of Optical Fibers with Laser Etched Taps on Cladding

[15] Packaging of Intensity Modulated Reflective Fiber Optic Sensors

[16] Performance of an Optical Fiber Loop Buffer Memory

[17] Analysis of a Fiber Optic Nonlinear Loop Mirror Based Clock Extraction System

[18] Design of a Fiber based Optoelectronic Perceptron Neural Network

[19] Packaging of Low-cost Optical Sensors for Liquid Level Measurement

[20] Laser Heated Pedestal Growth of Single Crystal Fibers

[21] Least-mean-square and Kalman based Adaptive Optical processing for Noise Cancellation

[22] Crosstalk considerations in optical interconnects

[23] Fiber Optic Sensor for Measuring Refractive Index of Turbid Liquids

[24] Alignability of Optical Cross Connects

[25] Optical Processing in Surface Plasmon Resonance based Photonic Bio-Sensors

[26] Beam Propagation Method based Design of Fiber Optic Evanescent Wave Sensors

[27] Optical Actuation of MEMS Devices

 

AT TCOM, Univ. of Oklahoma

[28] Design of a low cost optical ID for sensor interrogation

[29] Measuring cervical dilation before child birth

 

 UNDERGRADUATE DESIGN PROJECTS SUPERVISED

 At Univ. of Iowa:

[1] "A Study of Pattern Recognition with Hopfield Model", T. Chiun, 1987

[2] "Optical Fiber Temperature Sensors", T. McKeone, 1987

[3] "Performance Analysis of Fiber Optic Transversal filters", S. Lisle, 1988

[4] "Fiber Optic Arithmetic Fourier Transform Calculation", D. Knuth, 1988

[5] "A Study of Taps on Optical Waveguides", S. Wallis, 1988

[6] "Optical Matrix Vector Multiplier System", L. Egwim and J. Slusarek, 1989

[7] "Performance of a Fiber Optic Adaptive Filter: Numerical Experiments", E. Lee, 1989

[8] "Fabrication of an Optical Processor", B. Gregory, 1990

[9] "Computer Generated Holography Using ICAEN Systems", M. Rodriguez, 1990

[10] "Fault Tolerance of Hopfield Model Neural Networks", L. Cheung, 1990

[11] "Temperature Tunable Optical Filter", G. Otto, 1991

[12] "An All Optical Digital Communication Channel", S. Oberman, 1991

[13] "Compact Joint Transform Correlator Design", M. Asgarian, 1991

[14] "Split Step Algorithm for Matrix Preconditioning", V. Goyal, 1991-1992 (Honors Project)

[15] "Lensless Joint Transform Correlator Design", B. Soheili, 1992

[16] "Fiber Optic Communication System", J. Preussner, 1992 (Honors Project)

[17] "Beam Propagation Method for Optical Waveguides", T. Shie, 1992

 

At IIT Kanpur:

[18] “An Expert System for Single-Mode Fiber Optic Data Links”, N. Behera, 1995

[19] “An Expert System for the Design of Fiber Optic Transmitters, Receivers and Fiber Optic Data Links”, R. Kumar, 1995

[20] “Computer Aided Learning and Visualization for Optical Signal Processing”, S.

Majumdar and A. Lahiri, 1995 (nominated for best project)

[21] “Design of a Fiber Optic Tapped Delay Line Spectrum Analyzer”, S Bhattacharjee, 1996

[22] “Signal Processing with Fractional Fourier Transforms”, R Tiwari, 1996

[23] “Field Visualization in Fiber Optic Transmitter Packages”, A Mohanty and S. Joshi, 1996

[24] “Computer Aided Design of EDFAs”, K. Raj and V. Sharma, 1997.

[25] “Design and Performance Analysis of All-Optical Sagnac Logic Gates”, P. Pal, 1997 (nominated for best project).

[26] “Designing the Electronics for a Fiber Optic Neural Network”, S. Sikdar, 1997.

[27] “Designing an optoelectronic liquid level sensor”, A. Kumar and S. Verma, 1998.

[28] “Simulation of a Fiber Optic Loop Buffer”, P. Kumar and K. Manindra, 1999.

[29] “Fabricating the electronic circuit for an Optoelectronic Neural Network”, A. Singhal and A. Bisht, 1999.

[30] “Finite element based simulation of optical fields”, A. Goyal and N. Sinha, 1999.

[31] “Software for designing Bragg gratings”, T. Singhal, 2002.

[32] “Optical fiber based solar lighting system for indoor illumination”, G. Saraogi and B. Singh, 2002.

[33] “Fabrication and calibration of a low-cost liquid level sensor”, J. Jayendra and A. Usgaokar, 2003 (nominated for best project).

[34] “Calculation of optical fields in stripped-cladding fiber optic sensors using split-step algorithm”, A. De and P. Garg, 2003.

[35] “Static and Dynamic Characteristics of Electrostatic Comb Drives in MEMS”, A. Awasthi and A. Gupta, 2004.

[36] “Modeling of Surface Plasmon Based Optical Biosensors”, M. Bhagat and S. Agarwal, 2004.

[38] “Instrumentation for Optical Sensors with Nonlinear Characteristics”, N.R. Gupta and B. Kumar, 2004.

[39] “Alignment Considerations in MEMS Micromirror based Optical Switches”, C.P. Tiwari and A. Singh, 2004.

[40] “Design of Surface Plasmon Resonance based Optical Sensors”, S. Srivastava, 2005.

[41] “Spatial distribution of light at the output of surface plasmon resonance based optical sensors”, P. Anurag and M. Jain, 2006.

[42] “Fabricating low cost mechanical systems with printed circuit boards”, K. Sharma and M. Mudhholkar, 2006.

[43] “Designing an RF-ID interfaced with a sensor”, A Lohiya, 2006

[44] “Laser heating of MEMS cantilevers”, N Mittal, 2006.

[45] “Scattering of Laser light in Fog”, Suresh and N. Kuchhal, 2006.



RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS


[1] Fiber Optic Communication:

(a) Design of optoelectronic switches and processors.

(b) Applications and performance analysis of nonlinear optical loop mirrors.

 

[2] Optical Interconnects and Free Space Optics:

(a) Alignment considerations in package design for optical interconnects and processors: free space, fiber based, or planar integrated on a glass substrate.

(b) Low cost optical IDs.

 

[3] Optical Devices, Processors, Sensors:

(a) Design and Packaging of low-cost fiber optic sensors for bio and environmental sensing

(b) Design and Modeling of MEMS Actuators.

 

[4] Fog Vision:

(a) Scattering of laser light by fog.