
ULTRAFAST PHOTONICS LABORATORY
Dept. of Applied Physics, DIAT, Pune

Peer-reviewed Journal Papers
2026
1. Munukutla, Sri Sai Satish, Akshay Raj R, Aditya K. Dharmadhikari, and Shyamal Mondal. "Thermally-tailored optical fiber lens: Fundamentals, fabrication and advances." Journal of Optics (2025).
2025
Rashi Mahendra Patil, Akshay Raj R, Shyamal Mondal, Tejashree Bhave, Appala Venkata Ramana Murthy, An analytical disquisition on the nonlinear optical responses of carbon quantum dots engineered by diverse synthesis methodologies, Nano Trends, Volume 9, 2025, 100081, ISSN 2666-9781, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nwnano.2025.100081.
3. Mondal, Shyamal, Kashyap Jampani, Akshay Raj R, Dibakar Roy Chowdhury, and Abhijit Sethi. "Implementing W-Net deep learning for terahertz image enhancement and segmentation." Engineering Research Express 7, no. 1 (2025): 015246.
2024
4. Akkanaboina, Mangababu, Nityananda Acharyya, Shreeya Rane, Gopal Kulkarni, Shyamal Mondal, Saloni Sharma, Shubhda Srivastava, Bipin Kumar Gupta, and Dibakar Roy Chowdhury. "Temperature-Dependent Broadband Terahertz Behavior of Metal-Free Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes." ACS Applied Optical Materials 2, no. 12 (2024): 2519-2527.
5. Linsie, A. Alice, Shyamal Mondal, and Shanthi Prince. "Highly birefringent hexagonal porous core photonic crystal fiber for polarization maintaining integrated THz-photonics applications." Optical and Quantum Electronics 56, no. 10 (2024): 1672.
6. Rathinasamy, Vaisshale, Rama Rao Thipparaju, E. Nisha Flora Boby, and Shyamal Mondal. "Numerical investigation and circuit analysis of interdigitated photoconductive antenna for terahertz applications." Optical and Quantum Electronics 54, no. 4 (2022): 239.
7. Raj R, Akshay, Saikat Saha, and Shyamal Mondal. "Advancements in the Use of Artificial Saturable Absorbers for Modelocking of 2 µm Ultrafast Fiber Lasers." Annalen der Physik 536, no. 8 (2024): 2300458.
8. Mahankali, Pallavi, Shyamal Mondal, Rama Rao Thipparaju, and Susila Mohandoss. "Graphene based waveguide fed hybrid plasmonic terahertz patch antenna." Frequenz 78, no. 1-2 (2024): 71-78.
2023
9. Pandey, Govind Kumar, Rama Rao Thipparaju, and Shyamal Mondal. "Graphene based quad port terahertz MIMO antenna for wireless indoor communications." Optical and Quantum Electronics 55, no. 8 (2023): 746.
10. Boby, E. Nisha Flora, Sachin Kumar, and Shyamal Mondal. "Design and analysis of a serrate-shaped fractal photoconductive antenna for terahertz applications." Optical and Quantum Electronics 55, no. 6 (2023): 501.
11. Pallavi, Mahankali, Rama Rao Thipparaju, Shyamal Mondal, and Susila Mohandoss. "Optimization of strip-based hybrid plasmonic terahertz waveguide with distributed Bragg reflector layers." Optical Engineering 62, no. 3 (2023): 037108-037108.
12. Satapathy, Anwesha, Kailas K. Sawant, Shyamal Mondal, AA Bazil Raj, Ketan Mahimkar, and Balasubramanian Kandasubramanian. "Recent Progress on MXenes as an Attenuator of Terahertz Radiation: A. Satapathy et al." Journal of Electronic Materials 52, no. 3 (2023): 1749-1768.
13. Satapathy, Anwesha, Ketan Mahimkar, Shyamal Mondal, Yashwrdhan Pathaare, and Balasubramanian Kandasubramanian. "Attenuation of electromagnetic waves in polymeric terahertz imbibers." Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 34, no. 6 (2023): 516.
2022
14. Rathinasamy, Vaisshale, Rama Rao Thipparaju, Nisha Flora Boby Edwin, and Shyamal Mondal. "Interdigitated photoconductive terahertz antenna for future wireless communications." Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 64, no. 12 (2022): 2189-2196.
15. Boby, E. Nisha Flora, Jitendra Prajapati, Vaisshale Rathinasamy, T. Rama Rao, and Shyamal Mondal. "6G and beyond: Investigation of broadband terahertz interdigitated photoconductive antenna by exploiting laser parameters." Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 64, no. 12 (2022): 2197-2206.
16. Linsie, Aruldas Alice, Sachin Kumar, and Shyamal Mondal. "Performance analysis of slotted rectangular photonic crystal fiber structures in terahertz waveguidance." Optical Engineering 61, no. 9 (2022): 096104-096104.
17. Rathinasamy, Vaisshale, Rama Rao Thipparaju, E. Nisha Flora Boby, and Shyamal Mondal. "Numerical investigation and circuit analysis of interdigitated photoconductive antenna for terahertz applications." Optical and Quantum Electronics 54, no. 4 (2022): 239.
18. Boby, E. Nisha Flora, Jitendra Prajapati, Vaisshale Rathinasamy, Shouvik Mukherjee, and Shyamal Mondal. "Parametric investigation of interdigitated photoconductive antenna for efficient terahertz applications." Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 47, no. 3 (2022): 3597-3609.
2021
19. Jena, S., D. K. Mishra, Shyamal Mondal, Sujay Chakravarty, Shamima Hussain, and P. Mallick. "Effect of size, phase fraction and interface coupling on the magnetic behavior of al-modified α-Fe2O3/NiFe2O4 core–shell structure." Applied Physics A 127, no. 12 (2021): 975.
20. Mondal, Shyamal, Rounak Ganguly, and Krishnakanta Mondal. "Topological Insulators: An In‐depth review of their use in modelocked fiber lasers." Annalen der Physik 533, no. 6 (2021): 2000564.
21. Alice Linsie, A., and Shyamal Mondal. "Design of Low Loss Asymmetrical Photonic Crystal Fiber For Terahertz Communication." Ilkogretim Online 20, no. 1 (2021).
2020
22. Mitra, Nilanjan, Alak K. Patra, Satya P. Singh, Shyamal Mondal, Prasanta K. Datta, and Shailendra K. Varshney. "Interfacial delamination in glass-fiber/polymer-foam-core sandwich composites using singlemode–multimode–singlemode optical fiber sensors: Identification based on experimental investigation." Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials 22, no. 1 (2020): 40-54.
2019
23. Mitra, Nilanjan, AlakKumar Patra, Shyamal Mondal, and Prasanta Kumar Datta. "Interfacial delamination crack profile estimation in polymer foam-cored sandwich composites." Engineering Structures 189 (2019): 635-643.
2016
24. Mondal, Shyamal, Shouvik Mukherjee, Satya Pratap Singh, Stephen C. Rand, Sayantan Bhattacharya, Amit C. Das, and Prasanta Kumar Datta. "Dynamic gain aperture modelocking in picosecond regime based on cascaded second-order nonlinearity." Optics express 24, no. 14 (2016): 15274-15288.
25. Bhattachraya, Sayantan, Rishi Maiti, Amit Chandra Das, Subhodip Saha, Shyamal Mondal, Samit Kumar Ray, S. N. B. Bhaktha, and Prasanta Kumar Datta. "Efficient control of ultrafast optical nonlinearity of reduced graphene oxide by infrared reduction." Journal of Applied Physics 120, no. 1 (2016).
2014
26. Mondal, Shyamal, Satya Pratap Singh, Shouvik Mukherjee, Sourabh Mukhopadhyay, and Prasanta Kumar Datta. "Widely Tunable Intracavity Phasematched Cascaded Second-Order Interaction for the Generation of Multicolor Radiation." IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 51, no. 1 (2014): 1-5.
27. Choubey, Ambar, Shyamal Mondal, Ravindra Singh, B. N. Upadhyaya, P. K. Datta, and S. M. Oak. "Enhancement of p-polarized output power in long pulse single rod Nd: YAG laser using a tilted 90° quartz rotator." Optics Communications 330 (2014): 61-70.
28. Choubey, Ambar, Shyamal Mondal, Ravindra Singh, B. N. Upadhyaya, P. K. Datta, and S. M. Oak. "Generation of 415 W of p-polarized output power in long pulse operation of Nd: YAG laser using z-fold resonator geometry." Optics & Laser Technology 60 (2014): 41-48.
29. Mondal, Shyamal, Satya Pratap Singh, Sourabh Mukhopadhyay, Aditya Date, Kamal Hussain, Shouvik Mukherjee, and Prasanta Kumar Datta. "A comparative study on dual colour soft aperture cascaded second-order mode-locking with different nonlinear optical crystals." Pramana 82, no. 2 (2014): 313-319.
2013
30. Mondal, S., S. P. Singh, K. Hussain, Ambar Choubey, B. N. Upadhyay, and P. K. Datta. "Efficient depolarization-loss-compensation of solid state lasers using only a Glan-Taylor polarizer." Optics & Laser Technology 45 (2013): 154-159.
31. Mukhopadhyay, Sourabh, Shyamal Mondal, Satya Pratap Singh, Aditya Date, Kamal Hussain, and Prasanta Kumar Datta. "Dual colour cw mode-locking through soft aperture based on second order cascaded nonlinearity." Optics Express 21, no. 1 (2013): 454-462.
2011
32. Singh, Satya Pratap, Shyamal Mondal, Kamal Hussain, and Prasanta Kumar Datta. "Development of optical parametric oscillator tunable in the range 970-1460 nm." Defence Science Journal 61, no. 4 (2011): 377-382.
International Conferences:
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M. A. Kadiri, A. R. R, M. S. S. Satish, and S. Mondal, "Broadband Supercontinuum Generation using a High-power femtosecond source," in Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2025 (FiO, LS), Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2025), paper JV5A.2.
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Sethi, Abhijit, E. Nisha Flora Boby, RN Vamsi Krishna, and Shyamal Mondal. "CdSe-derived DBR layers for improved THz performance in Photoconductive Antenna." In Laser Science, pp. JD1A-51. Optica Publishing Group, 2025.
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Linsie, A. Alice, Shyamal Mondal, and Shanthi Prince. "Highly birefringent terahertz PCF using epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) material for polarization maintaining applications." In 2025 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC), pp. 110-113. IEEE, 2025.
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B. Das, M. S. Ansari and S. Mondal, "Indigenously Designed and Development of Actively Q-Switched Nanosecond Nd:YAG Laser," 2024 IEEE Pune Section International Conference (PuneCon), Pune, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PuneCon63413.2024.10895724.
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Raj R, Akshay, Satish, Munukutla Sri Sai, and Shyamal Mondal. "Dual-Stage Amplification of All PM Yb-Doped Ultrafast Fiber Laser Modelocked by SESAM." In 2024 IEEE Pune Section International Conference (PuneCon), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2024.
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Boby, E. Nisha Flora, Sachin Kumar, Aditya Nath Bhatt, and Shyamal Mondal. "Investigation of Bow-Tie Photoconductive Antennas for Terahertz Imaging Applications." In International Conference on Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering, pp. 441-448. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024.
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Govind Kumar Pandey, T. Rama Rao, Shyamal Mondal, "Design and Analysis of Graphene-based Octagonal Short-angular Circular Patch MIMO Antenna for Terahertz Communications", In 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (CONIT), Karnataka, India. June 24-26, 2022.
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Pallavi Mahankali, Susila M, Shyamal Mondal, T. Rama Rao, “Design and Performance Analysis of Dielectric Stripe based Terahertz Waveguide”, In 2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on Communication, Information and Computing Technology, (ICCICT), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2021.
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E. Nisha Flora Boby, Vaisshale Rathinasamy, T. Rama Rao, and Shyamal Mondal*. “Parametric Analysis of Inter-combed Photoconductive Antenna for Terahertz Communication.” In 2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on Communication, Information and Computing Technology, (ICCICT) pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2021.
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Mondal, Shyamal*, Vaisshale Rathinasamy, Shriya Kapoor, Shouvik Mukherjee, and T. Rama Rao. "Interdigitated Photoconductive Antenna Design and Analysis for Terahertz Wireless Applications." In 2020 IEEE 3rd 5G World Forum (5GWF), pp. 484-487. IEEE, 2020.
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Rathinasamy, Vaisshale, Shriya Kapoor, Akhil Rout, T. Rama Rao, and Shyamal Mondal*. "Interdigitated-Slot Photoconductive Antenna for Terahertz Applications." In 2019 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), pp. 1-3. IEEE, 2019.
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Honzátko, Pavel, Yauhen Baravets, Shyamal Mondal, Pavel Peterka, and Filip Todorov. "Coherent sources for mid-infrared laser spectroscopy." In 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, vol. 10142, p. 1014202. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2016.
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Das, Amit C., S. Bhattacharya, K. C. Mandal, S. Mondal, M. Jewariya, T. Ozaki, S. N. B. Bhaktha, and P. K. Datta. "Dielectric response of pure and doped-GaSe crystals studied by an indigenously developed broadband THz-TDS system." In Nonlinear Optics and its Applications IV, vol. 9894, p. 98941E. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2016.
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Bhattacharya, S., R. Maiti, S. Saha, A. C. Das, S. Mondal, S. K. Ray, S. B. N. Bhaktha, and P. K. Datta. "Infrared reduction, an efficient method to control the non-linear optical property of graphene oxide in the femtosecond regime." In Nanophotonics VI, vol. 9884, p. 98842L. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2016.
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Mondal, Shyamal, Shouvik Mukherjee, Satya Pratap Singh, and Prasanta Kumar Datta. "Realization of Inverse Saturable Absorption by Cascaded Second-Order Process for Stable Modelocking." In Laser Science, pp. LTh4D-7. Optical Society of America, 2015.
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Mondal, Shyamal, Satya Pratap Singh, Shouvik Mukherjee, Sourabh Mukhopadhyay, and Prasanta Kumar Datta. "Intracavity cascaded second-order interaction in BBO for generation of efficient, widely tunable coherent radiation." In Advanced Solid-State Lasers, pp. AM5A-46. Optical Society of America, 2014.
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Hussain, Kamal, Satyapratap Singh, Shyamal Mondal, Lokanath Mishra, and Prasanta Kumar Datta. "Wavelength Conversion Using Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and Bandpass Filter Combination." In International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, pp. T3A-59. Optical Society of America, 2014.
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Singh, S. P., S. Mondal, S. Mukherjee, A. Date, S. Mukhopadhyay, and P. K. Datta. "Multi-colour OPO based on second order cascaded nonlinear interaction." In Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Pacific Rim, p. WPB-12. Optical Society of America, 2013.
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Singh, S. P., S. Mondal, A. Date, S. Mukhopadhyay, and P. K. Datta. "Dual color cw mode-locking through soft-aperture and second order cascaded nonlinearity." In International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, pp. W3C-2. Optical Society of America, 2012.
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S. Mondal, S. P. Singh, S. Mukherjee, A. Date, P. K. Datta, and S. Mukhopadhyay. "Investigation on the stability of cascaded second-order mode-locking." In Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), pp. 1-2. IEEE, 2013.
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S. Mondal, S. Datta, S. Dey, S. Bera, S. P. Singh, and P. K. Datta. "Efficient compensation of thermal birefringence of a flash-lamp pumped Nd: YAG laser by a simple but novel method." In Solid State Lasers XX: Technology and Devices, vol. 7912, p. 79122F. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2011.
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Bhoumik, Debashis, Shyamal Mondal, and S. K. Chakrabarti. "Developments of Si‐PIN detectors for Continuous Spectro‐photometry of Black Holes (CSPOB)." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1053, no. 1, pp. 403-408. American Institute of Physics, 2008.
Book Chapters:
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Mondal, Shyamal*, Edwin, Nisha, Rathinasamy, Vaisshale. "Interdigitated Photoconductive Antenna for Efficient Terahertz Generation and Detection" In Terahertz Technology, edited by Borwen You, Ja-Yu Lu. London: IntechOpen, 2022. 10.5772/intechopen.102379.
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Harlan L, Sachin Kumar, Shyamal Mondal*, “Metamaterial-based Terahertz Filters” In METAMATERIALS: ADVANCES IN RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS, edited by Bhargav Appasani, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. June, 2022.
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Shyamal Mondal, E. Nisha Flora Boby, and Vaisshale Rathinasamy “Role of Terahertz Photoconductive Antenna in Future Healthcare Informatics,” accepted for publication as a book chapter in ''Advances of 5G Wireless Communication System in Healthcare Informatics'', CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, 2021.