tl;dr 1: Jupyter notebooks for each of the (numbered) projects below are available in the accompanying folder.
tl;dr 2: A YouTube playlist where each student group explains their work is available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAf4P2YTnSXPZweM9IyjgMBpncjYdKqB
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Project topics have been decided by the instructor keeping the match with our course content in mind. No changes are permitted in the project topics as of now.
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Total strength is 62, so we will have 15 groups of 4 people each and 1 group of 2 people.
Requirements:
- A 1 hour long pre-recorded presentation by each team, which should be made available to the entire class on microsoft teams before your live presentation date
- A 15 minute shorter live presentation during the class:
- Giving a broader picture of the work
- Explaining the specific calculations/plots you reproduced
- Live iPython notebook demo reproducing the plots
- In lieu of a traditional project report, an executable paper (iPython notebook is strongly encouraged) reproducing the calculations/plots/derivations needs to be supplied to the instructor for evaluation
- In both the presentations as well as the executable paper, details of the contributions of individual group members to the project should be clearly spelt out.
- Evaluation is based on the following criteria:
- Understanding of the topic: breadth and depth (eg. via reading cross-references)
- Quality of presentation (eg. motivation, breaking down the problem, conclusion)
- Reproducing parts of the paper (i.e. your executable paper (iPython notebook) demo) -- this component has the highest weightage
* means that some prior exposure to quantum optics will help in the project
| No | Topic | Students |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accessing the optical nonlinearity of metals with metal–dielectric photonic bandgap structures | Sankalp (180260032) Parth (180260026) Karthik (180260018) Jai (180260017) |
| 2 | Nonlinear susceptibility of composite optical materials in the Maxwell Garnett model | Shashank Deshpande (180260034) Shreyas Chandgothia (180360037) Saanika Chaudhary (180260029) Gattu Mytraya (180050032) |
| 3 | Dependence of the Nonlinear-Optical Response of Materials on their Linear epsilon and mu | Akash Pratap Singh (180260004) Nitish Mamadgi (180260024) Palaash Wakharkar (180260025) Vedant Singh (180260040) |
| 4 | Tunable All-Optical Delays via Brillouin Slow Light in an Optical Fiber | None |
| 5 | Ultraslow Light Propagation in a Ruby Crystal | Yati Sharma (170260041) Nikhil Vikas Khobragade (180260032) Ankit Borsaikia (180260008) Vaibhav Sanjay Minde (170260009) |
| 6 | Topological nature of nonlinear optical effects in solids | Roshni Singh (18B030020) Siddharth Tiwary (180260038) Sahas Kamat (180260030) Pushkar Mohile (180260027) |
| 7 | Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity of Three-Dimensional Massless Dirac Fermions | Auro Soni (180260010) Anish Chaurasiya (180260007) Vineet Bhatt (180260042) Benhur (180260016) |
| 8 | Quantum Nonlinear Optics in Atomically Thin Materials* | Abhishek Kejriwal (180260002) Anaida Ali (180260006) Somayajula Chaitanya Bhageeratha (180110085) Hriday Mitta l(18D170012) |
| 9 | Nonlinear mirrors and quantum fluctuations* | Aakash (180260001) Aditya Ranjan (180260003) Amal matthews (180260005 Yuktee gupta (180260044) |
| 10 | Nonlinear microscopy: Applications to Biology | Jigyasu Chand (170260001) Ashish Dhanve (170260003) Nihal Barde (170260010) Prathamesh Borse (170260016) |
| 11 | Spatial solitons in periodic nanostructures | Chaitanya K (170260019) Ayush B (170260020) Preksha G (170260021) Asawari K (170260022) |
| 12 | Cavity enhanced nonlinear optics for few photon optical bistability | S Nithishkumar(180260039) Aryan (180260009) Nishita (180260023) Deevanshu (180260013) |
| 13 | All-Optical Stern-Gerlach Effect | Himansh Rathore (180260015) Bhavya Jain (180260012) Priyatham Manohar (180260019) Aniruddha Latkar (180260020) |
| 14 | Two photon entanglement via parametric downconversion* | Shoaib Akhtar (180260036) Ramakant Pal (180260028) Shlok Dhurjad (180260035) Ayush Raj (180260011) |
| 15 | Quantum nonlinear light emission in metamaterials | G. Avinash (180260014) Vella Harika (180260041) Dev Pratap Jha (180110028) Manikantt M (180010035) |
| 16 | Absorptive loss and band non-parabolicity as a physical origin of large nonlinearity in epsilon-near-zero materials | Raunak (170260026) Malti (170260017) Neeraj(170260033) Sourabh (180260033) |