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सीएसआईआर-केंद्रीय काँच एवं सिरामिक अनुसंधान संस्थान
CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute
Dr. Mukul Chandra Paul
Chief Scientist and Professor-AcSIR
Leader, Fiber Optics and Photonics Division (FOPD)
Head, Instrumentation and Information Technology Division (IITD)
Contact Information:
Phone: 033-2322 3285
FAX: +91-33-24730957
E-mail: mcpal@cgcri.res.in
Webside: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-3566-2009
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8805-6129
Scopus Author ID: 57203337368
http://www.aascit.org/membership/mukulpaul
Dr. Mukul Chandra Paul
Dr. Paul joined CGCRI on 26.12.1997Professional Career
| Designation | Organization | Duration |
| JRF under CSIR-NET | Fiber Optics and Photonics Division-CGCRI | 1992-1994 |
| SRF under CSIR-NET | Fiber Optics and Photonics Division-CGCRI | 1995-1997 |
| Junior Scientist | Fiber Optics and Photonics Division-CGCRI | 1997-2000 |
| Scientist | Fiber Optics and Photonics Division-CGCRI | 2001-2004 |
| Senior Scientist | Fiber Optics and Photonics Division-CGCRI | 2005-2009 |
| Principal Scientist | Fiber Optics and Photonics Division-CGCRI | 2010-2014 |
| Senior Principal Scientist | Fiber Optics and Photonics Division-CGCRI | 2014-Continuing |
| Visiting Scientist | Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiere Condensee (LPMC) Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis CNRS-UMR 6622, Parc Valrose F 06108 NICE Cedex 2, FRANCE | 6.0 months (28.3.2006 to 30.9.2006) |
| Visiting Scientist | Optoelectronic Research Center University of Southampton Southampton, UK | 1.0 month (30.8.2008 – 30.9.2008) |
| Visiting Scientist | Optoelectronic Research Center University of Southampton Southampton, UK | One month (24.8.2009 – 24.9.2009 |
|
Visiting Scientist |
CIO-Mexico | 14 days (11.10.2010 to 24.10.2010 |
| Visiting Scientist | CIO-Mexico | 16 days (06.11.2011 to 21.11.2011 |
| Visiting Scientist | Multimedia University, Malaysia | 10 days (25.9.2012 to 4.10.2012) |
| Visiting Scientist | Heriot Watt University, UK | 7 days (22.3.2014 to 28.3.2014) |
| Visiting Scientist | Northwest University, Xian’s City, China | 9 days (16.6.2014 to 24.6.2014) |
| Visiting Scientist | Northwest University, Xian’s City, China | 5 days(10.1.2016 to 14.1.2016) |
| Visiting Scientist | Multimedia University, Malaysia | 9 days(13.3.2016 to 21.3.2016) |
| Visiting Scientist | Moscow state University, Russia | 10 days (10.2.2018 to 19.02.2018) |
| Visiting Scientist | Multimedia University, Malaysia | 10 days (9.04.2018 to 18.04.2018) |
| Visiting Scientist | National Taiwan University of Technology (NTUT) | 10 days (4.11.2019- 14.11.2019) |
| Senior Principal Scientist | Fiber Optics and Photonics Division-CGCRI | 2014-2018 |
| Chief Scientist | Fiber Optics and Photonics Division-CGCRI | 2019- Continuing |
Education
| Degree | Discipline | University; Year |
|---|---|---|
| B.Sc. | Chemistry | University of Burdwan, 1987 |
| M.Sc. | Inorganic Chemistry | University of Burdwan, 1989 |
| Ph.D. | Science. | University of Jadavpur, 2003 |
Patents filed / Granted
- An equipment for the manufacturing of thin multifilament fused quartz fibre strands and a process thereof, S.K. Bhadra, S. Chakraborti, T.K. Bandyopadhyay, K.K. Phani, N.R. Bose, K. Dasgupta, R. Sen, M.C.Paul, M.Pal, T.K. Gangopadhyay, and P.P.Giri, NF-165/2001, 14.3.2001, CSIR-India
- Process of making rare earth doped optical fibre, Ranjan Sen, Minati Chatterjee, Milan Kanti Naskar, Mrinmay Pal, Mukul Chandra Paul, Shyamal Kumar Bhadra, Kamal Dasgupta, Dibyendu Ganguli, Tarun Bandyopadhyay, Aharon Gedanken,US 20040187524, Sep. 30, 2004, CSIR-India
- Method of fabricating rare earth doped optical fibre, Ranjan Sen, Mrinmay Pal, Mukul Chandra Paul, Shyamal Kumar Bhadra, Somesh Chatterjee, Kamal Dasgupta,
US 20030182970,, Oct. 2, 2003, CSIR-India - Process of making rare earth doped optical fiber, Ranjan Sen, Minati Chatterjee, Milan Kanti Naskar, Mrinmay Pal, Mukul Chandra Paul, Shyamal Kumar Bhadra, Kamal Dasgupta, Dibyendu Ganguli, Tarun Bandyopadhyay, Aharon Gedanken,US 6889528,
May, 10, 2005, CSIR-India - Method for fabricating rare earth (re) doped optical fiber using a new co-dopant, Ranjan Sen, Anirban Dhar, Mukul Chandra Paul, Himadri Sekhar Maiti,, US 20120201504, Aug. 9, 2012, CSIR-India
- Procede de fabrication d’une fibre optique dopee aux terres rares, Sen Ranjan Pal Mrinmay , Paul Mukul Chandra , Bhadra Shyamal Kumar , Chatterjee Somesh , Dasgupta Kamal,
CA 2481204,Feb, 15, 2011, MIT-New Delhi - Method of fabricating rare earth doped optical fibre, Ranjan Sen, Mrinmay Pal, Mukul Chandra Paul, Shyamal Kumar Bhadra, Somesh Chatterjee, Kamal Dasgupta,
US 6851281,Feb, 8,2005, CSIR-INDIA - Process for making rare earth doped optical fiber, Tarun Bandyopadhyay, Ranjan Sen, Shyamal Kumar Bhadra, Kamal Dasgupta, Mukul Chandra Paul,
US 6751990, June, 22, 2004, CSIR-INDIA - Process for making rare earth doped optical fiber, Tarun Bandyopadhyay, Ranjan Sen, Shyamal Kumar Bhadra, Kamal Dasgupta, Mukul Chandra Paul,
US 20020124601, Sep. 12, 2002, CSIR-INDIA - Process of fabrication of silica based index-guided non-linear microstructure optical fibers with optimized suspension of innermost inner holes, S.K.Bhadra, D.Ghosh, M.Pal and M.C.Paul, 0147NF2012, 2012, CSIR-India
- Process of fabrication of rare-earth doped air-clad fiber for use as laser source with high efficiency in the infra-red wavelength region S.K.Bhadra, D.Ghosh, M.Pal, M.C.Paul and S.Das, Granted: 309650, Dated: 22.03.2019 CSIR-INDIA
- Method for fabricating rare earth (re) doped optical fiber using a new co-dopant.,
Sen, A.Dhar, M.C.Paul and H.S.Maiti, US 8649650 B2, Feb, 11, 2014, CSIR-INDIA - A process of fabrication of erbium and ytterbium-co-doped multi-elements silica glass based cladding-pumped fiber, M.C.Paul, A.Dhar, S.Das, M.Pal and S.K.Bhadra,, US2019/0375672A1, Dated: 12.12.2019, CSIR-INDIA
- A process of fabrication of erbium and ytterbium-co-doped multi-elements silica glass based cladding-pumped fiber, M.C.Paul, A.Dhar, S.Das, M.Pal and S.K.Bhadra,, Application No: 201811021507, Dated: 08.06.2018 , CSIR-INDIA
- An improved method for fabricating rare-earth (RE) doped optical fiber using a new codopant” Ranjan Sen, Anirban Dhar, Mukul Chandra Paul and Himadri Sekhar Maiti, European Patent Application Number: 10720035.4 , Dated: 14.08.2020, CSIR-INDIA and DIT
Research Area:
Development of different waveguide design as well as various new material composition based specialty optical fibers to improve their corresponding waveguide/spectroscopic/ lasing/amplification/sensing properties for high power fiber FBG based refletors, high power fiber laser, high power optical amplifier, broad-band sources starting from VIS to mid IR regions, fiber based hydrophone, fiber based saturable absorber for making of mode-locked as well as Q-switching fiber laser and fiber based radiation as well as chemical sensors.
Research Interest towards making of fiber optic based devices:-
- Development of special ultra high NA based EDF for making of DFB or DBR Fiber laser to develop fiber optic based hydrophone.
- Development of Metal nano-particles doped rare-earths co-doped optical fiber for making of fiber laser in visible region
- Development of Rare-earths doped nano-engineering YAS glass based optical fiber for making of high power fiber laser
- Development of multicore rare-earths doped optical fiber for making of mode-locked multi wavelength fiber laser .
- Development of large mode area EDF for high power optical amplifier as well as pico second pulse fiber laser.
- Development of Rare-earths doped nano-engineering glass based optical fiber based on zirconia-yttria-alumina-silica glass host for making of high power optical amplifier
- Development of Bismuth doped multi-element glass based optical fiber for making of broad band light source within 1100- 1500nm.
- Development of Chromium doped YAG nano-engineering glass based optical fiber for making of broad band light source.
- Development of highly non-linear optical fiber for making of blue enhanced SC source
- Development of PM –EYDF for making of rugged, lower cost wind LIDAR module.
- Development of new class of multimaterial glass based photosensitive fiber for regenerated fiber Bragg grating sensors for operation at high temperature (~14000C) .
- Development of Er/Yb doped cladding pump optical fiber for high power optical amplifier
- Developed Tm doped nano-engineered glass based optical fiber for mode locked fiber laser.
Notable Research Contribution
A. Specialty Optical Fibers:-
- Developed suitable Er2O3 doped fibres in germano-alumina-silica glass for optical amplifier in C-band gain flattened DWDM communication networking system and CATV application.
- Developed large core Yb2O3 doped nano-engineering glass host based fibres for high power fiber laser source that generated 250W of continuous-wave output power with 75% slope efficiency.
- Developed suitable GeO2+B2O3 codoped photosensitive fibres for writing fibre-Bragg grating to make fibre optics based components and devices.
- Developed high P2O5 doped radiation sensitive optical fibres for use as a radiation sensor in fibre optic dosimetry.
- Developed dual core erbium doped optical fiber for optical amplifier in C-band gain flattened DWDM communication Networking system
- Developed erbium doped optical fiber based on zirconia-yttria alumina silica glass host for optical amplifier in C-band gain flattened DWDM communication Networking system.
- Developed suitable Er/Yb codoped fiber for high power optical amplifier.
- Developed metal nano-particles doped optical fibers for broad band source at visible region
- Developed Bismuth doped nano-engineering glass based optical fiber for broad band source at NIR region
B. Fiber optic based devices:- :-
- Optical Optical Amplifier module having output power +23dBm for CATV application.
- Broad band supercontiniuum source having maximum output power of 2.0 W from 500nm to 2200nm.
- Confocal Microscope having spectral range from 450 to 2400nm with spectral resolution of 1nm in Visible and 7 nm at NIR region.
| Sr. No | Award/Professional Recognition/Fellowship/Certificate | Awarding Agency/Country | Year |
|
1. |
Young Scientist in connection with INDIA-UK Young Scientist Networking Programme | British Council | 2003 |
| 2. |
Best Paper award
|
OECC, Shanghi, China | 2003 |
| 3. | BOYSCAST Fellowship( Ref No:- SR/BY/C-21/05 ) | DST | 2005 |
| 4. |
Best poster presentation Award
|
IIT, Chennai | 2006 |
| 5. | Best paper award Best Technical Paper- Material Science | Electron Microscope Society of India (EMSI) | 2006 |
| 6. | Ministry of Science , Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) award | Federal Government Administrative Centre, Malaysia | 2010 |
| 7. |
IEEE Photonic Distinguished Lecture Award
|
Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia | 2011 |
| 8. |
CIO Lecture Award
|
DG of Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Guanajuato, Mexico | 2011 |
| 9. | CSIR Technology Award | Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, India) | 2012 |
| 10. |
Invited Speaker
|
3rd International Conference on Photonics-2012, (ICP-2012) held in Penang, Malaysia, | 2012 |
| 11. | UKIERI Award | DST, India –British Council, UK | 2013 |
| 12. | Member of the technical program committee for ICP2013 | IEEE Photonics Society, Malaysia | 2013 |
| 13. |
Invited Speaker
|
Second International Conference on Nanomaterials and Technologies (CNT-2014) | 2014 |
| 14. | Best prominent scientist in the area of fiber optics | Northwest university, Xian’s City, China, Chinese Academic of Science | 2014 |
|
15.
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Member of technical programme committee in International Conference on applied science and technology (ICAST 2015) | Sanya, China | 2015 |
| 16. | Member of conference scientific and technical committee board of 2015 International Conference on Mechanical engineering and Materials Technology (ICMEMT-2015) | Istabul, Turkey | 2015 |
| 17. | CSIR Technology Award under Innovation | Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, India) | 2015 |
| 18. | DST – RFBR Award for Indo-Russian Collaborative research work | DST | 2015 |
| 19. | Invited Speaker | International Conference on Photonics (ICP-2016 ) , IEEE Photonic Society , Malaysia | 2016 |
| 20. | Member of International Conference and Exhibition on Mesoscopic and Condensed Matter Physics | Chicago, USA | 2016 |
| 21. | Selected as chairman to conduct SPIE and OSA student chapter member lecture series held on 3th October, 2016 |
Institute of Engineering and Management, Salt lake, Sector-V.
|
2016 |
| 22. | Selected as a member of collaborative platform from India on “Round Robin Test / Laboratory Comparison on radiation induced attenuation in optical fibers” participating 12 countries such as Russia, Belgium, USA, Romania, Switzerland, Germany, China, France, Spain, Taiwan and South Korea. | Germany | 2017 |
| 23. |
Indo-Portugal (FCT) Collaborative Research Grant Award
|
DST and Ministry of Science & Technology and Higher Education of Portugal |
2017 |
| 24 | Key Note Speaker | International conference on Science and Innovative Engineering (I-COSINE) held at Sabang , Indonesia | 2018 |
| 25 | Selected as an International Program Committee Member of the 2nd International Conference on Optics, Photonics and Lasers (OPAL’ 2019) to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 24-26 April 2019 |
International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA), Spain
|
2018 |
| 26 | Selected as a member of the national steering committee of PHOTONICS-2018 | IIT, NewDelhi, India | 2018 |
| 27 | Senior visiting scientist award | National Taiwan University of Technology (NTUT), Taiwan | 2019 |
| 28 | Selected as International Reviewer by the Review Board of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), Russia for the International Expertise Project of Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) | Russian Science Foundation (RSF), Russia | 2019 |
| 29 | Best of the best professional ( S & T) Award as a member of the research work of post doctorate student, Dr. Arni Munira Binti Markom , University of Malaya, Malaysia in the 2nd digitalised international invention, innovation and design Johor 2019 held at Hotel Amansari Bandar Seri Alam, Masal Johor, Malaysia on 29th August, 2019. | 2nd digitalised international invention, innovation and design | 2019 |
| 30 |
Gold medal as a group member of the research work related to the invention/innovation/design of Zirconia Laser: Towards Biomedical Applications’ at invention , innovation & design exposition 2019 (iideX2019) held at Dewan Agung Tuanku Canselor ( DATC), Universiti Teknologi Mara , Shah Alam, Selangor , Malaysia, during 10 – 15 September, 2019
|
iideX2019 | 2019 |
| 31 | Best student poster Award as co-author at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optic (CLEO) 2020 | Optical Society of America(OSA) Fiber Modeling and Fabrication Group | 2020 |
| 32 | CK Somany Award for Innovation and Technology | All India Glass Manufacturers’s Federation (AIGMF), New Delhi | 2020 |
| 33 | Key Note Speaker | Advanced Fibre Laser Conference 2020 | 2020 |
Membership in organizational / national / international committees
- Life- Membership of Indian Ceramic Society
- OSA membership
- Life – membership of Material Research Society of India (MRSI)
- Life – membership of Electron Microscopy Research Society (EMRS)
- Regular membership of American Ceramic Society (ACS)
- Associate membership of IEEE
Editorial Board Members of some Important journals:
- New journal of glass and ceramics (NJGC)
- International journal of advanced nanomaterials
- International journal of materials science research
- Journal of Materials Science and Engineering Progress.
- American Journal of Science and Technology .
- International Journal of material Sciences and Engineering
- Research Journal of Optics & Photonics
Editorship in reputed journals
- Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Fiber Lasers in the Journal of Quantum Electronics, JSTQE , 2014
- Guest Editor for the special issue on “Nano-engineered glass based optical fiber for fiber laser, amplifier and broad band light source” in Current Nano-science journals, 2015
- Editor of Fiber Laser Book (ISBN: 978-953-51-4515-5) published by InTech “Fiber Laser” ed. by Mukul Chandra Paul
ITexLi | March 02, 2016 | ISBN: 9535146157 | 415 pages , 2016
- Editor of Book on “Fiber Laser: Advanced in Research and Applications” published by Nova Science Publishers. INC. USA, 2017
- Guest Editor for Special issue of Optical Materials Express (OMEX) [I.F: 2.566] on “Optical Fiber Materials” 2019
- Associate Editor for special issue of IEEE Photonics Journal [I.F:2.673] on “Specialty Optical Fibers : Materials, Fabrication, Devices and Applications” 2019
Selected Publications
The total publications: 200 to be obtained from the following Google Scholar Citations link:
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=hQMaN6MAAAAJ&hl=en
Five Best Papers:
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=hQMaN6MAAAAJ&hl=en
Five Best Papers:
- “Characterization of porous core layer for controlling rare earth incorporation in optical fiber” A Dhar, MC Paul, M Pal, AK Mandal, S Sen, HS Maiti, R Sen Optics Express 14 (20), 9006-9015, 2006
- “Diode-pumped 1028 nm Ytterbium-doped fiber laser with near 90% slope efficiency” SW Harun, MC Paul, MRA Moghaddam, S Das, R Sen, A Dhar, M Pal, SK Bhadra, H.Ahmad, Laser physics 20 (3), 656-660, 2010
- “Er doped oxide nanoparticles in silica based optical fibres” W Blanc, B Dussardier, MC Paul , Glass Technology-European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part A 50 (1) 79-81, 2009
- “Design of all-solid leakage channel fibers with large mode area and low bending loss” K Saitoh, Y Tsuchida, L Rosa, M Koshiba, F Poli, A Cucinotta, S Selleri, M.Pal , M.Paul, D.Ghosh , S.Bhadra Optics Express 17 (6), 4913-4919 , 2009
- “Performance comparison of Zr-based and Bi-based erbium-doped fiber amplifiers” MC Paul, SW Harun, NAD Huri, A Hamzah, S Das, M Pal, SK Bhadra, H Ahmad, S Yoo, MP Kalita, AJ Boyland, JK Sahu , Optics letters 35 (17), 2882-2884 , 2010
Ph.D: Completed-3; Ongoing-4
M.Tech: Completed-5
M.Sc: Completed-6
M.Tech: Completed-5
M.Sc: Completed-6
Last Updated on July 4, 2022
