Dr. Shyamal Mondal

Currently, Dr. Mondal is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Physics, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, India. His broad research area is the plasmonic photoconductive antenna, high electric field THz generation and detection, and the development of ultrafast fiber and solid-state laser oscillators and amplifiers and their applications. Previously, he has worked as a Research Assistant Professor at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India, for three years. At Accelerator Science and Technology Centre, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom, as a Rutherford International Fellow, he worked on the experimental optimization of high-field multi-cycle terahertz pulses for the application of appropriate structures, including terahertz waveguides, terahertz photonic structures and resonant cavities. In his first postdoctoral study at IPE, Czech Republic, he developed different ultrafast, high-power mode-locked fiber lasers and their amplifier systems with different ytterbium, erbium, thulium, and chalcogenide fibers to produce broadband near-infra-red and mid-infra-red, frequency sources by frequency mixing processes. He completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2015 with a specialization in 'Ultrafast Lasers and Nonlinear Optics'. He published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and two book chapters. He is a life member of OSI, ILA, and advisor of DIAT OPTICA Student Chapter.​

Areas of Research:​

          • High Power Ultrafast Fiber Lasers and amplifiers

          • Measurement of Optical Nonlinearities

          • Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy

          • Terahertz Time-resolved spectroscopy

          • Terahertz Imaging and Resolution Enhancement of Terahertz Images using AI/ML

          • 2D materials for mode-locking of Ultrafast Lasers

          • Cascaded optical nonlinearity management

          • Nonlinear optical frequency mixing processes

          • Picosecond and Nanosecond solid-state lasers

          • High-power polarization controlled quasi-QW-kW lasers

Prior Held Positions:

          • Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of ETCE, SRM IST, Kattankulathur, Chennai, India

          • Research Associate, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India

          • Hardware Engineer, Indian Center of Space Physics, Kolkata, India​