pp 1-2 February 2014 Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Preface

L M Gantayet K Dasgupta D J Biswas A K Ray J P Nilaya A K Pulhani

pp 173-183 February 2014 Invited Talk Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Atomic clocks: A brief history and current status of research in India

Poonam Arora Amrita Awasthi Vattikonda Bharath Aishik Acharya Suchi Yadav Aashish Agarwal Amitava Sen Gupta

pp 185-190 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

LOPUT Laser: A novel concept to realize single longitudinal mode laser

J George K S Bindra S M Oak

pp 191-195 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Thermal birefringence-compensated linear intracavity frequency doubled Nd:YAG rod laser with 73 ns pulse duration and 160Wgreen output power

S K Sharma A J Singh P K Gupta P Hedaoo P K Mukhopadhyay K Ranganathan K S Bindra S M Oak

pp 197-202 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Efficient yellow beam generation by intracavity sum frequency mixing in DPSS Nd:YVO₄ laser

A J Singh P K Gupta S K Sharma P K Mukhopadhyay K S Bindra S M Oak

pp 203-210 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Measurement of flow fluctuations in single longitudinal mode pulsed dye laser

V S Rawat N Kawade G Sridhar Sunita Singh L M Gantayet

pp 211-216 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Efficient delivery of 60 J pulse energy of long pulse Nd:YAG laser through 200 𝜇m core diameter optical fibre

Ravindra Singh Ambar Choubey R K Jain S C Vishwakarma D K Agrawal Sabir Ali B N Upadhyaya S M Oak

pp 217-225 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Development of copper bromide laser master oscillator power amplifier system

G N Tiwari R K Mishra R Khare S V Nakhe

pp 227-231 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Generation of 2.1 𝜇m wavelength from degenerate high gray track resistant potassium titanyl phosphate optical parametric oscillator

S Verma C Mishra V Kumar M Yadav K C Bahuguna N S Vasan S P Gaba

pp 233-236 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Multimode laser emission from dye-doped hollow polymer optical fibre

C L Linslal Jaison Peter S Mathew M Kailasnath

pp 237-242 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Laser-assisted surface cleaning of metallic components

Aniruddha Kumar R B Bhatt P G Behere Mohd Afzal Arun Kumar J P Nilaya D J Biswas

pp 243-248 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Versatile laser microfabrication techniques for lab-on-chip devices in general and uranium analysis in particular

Asmita Malik S Sendhil Raja P K Gupta

pp 249-253 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Quantum coherent control of the vibrational dynamics of a polyatomic molecule using adaptive feedback control of a femtosecond laser

L R Botha L E De Clercq A M Smit N Botha E Ronander H J Strydom

pp 255-258 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Development of tilted fibre Bragg gratings using highly coherent 255 nm radiation

O Prakash J Kumar R Mahakud U Kumbhkar S V Nakhe S K Dixit

pp 259-264 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Reflection mode holographic recording in methylene blue-sensitized polyvinyl alcohol acrylamide films

C S Rajesh R Anjana S S Sreeroop C Sudha Kartha

pp 265-269 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

HF-based clad etching of fibre Bragg grating and its utilization in concentration sensing of laser dye in dye–ethanol solution

J Kumar R Mahakud O Prakash S K Dixit

pp 271-275 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Spectroscopy and laser characterization of synthesized supramolecular host cucurbit[7]uril using aqueous Rhodamine B dye

Deepak R Boraste Monika Gupta Ganapati Shankarling Alok K Ray Sandip K Nayak

pp 277-281 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Taming fluorescence yield of dye insensitive to temperature by non-covalent complex with the host CB[7] for aqueous dye lasers

Monika Gupta Krishna K Jagtap V Sudarsan Alok K Ray

pp 283-288 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Second harmonic generation from corona-poled polymer thin films of Y-shape chromophore with different isolation groups

Mukesh P Joshi S Raj Mohan Balakrishna Kolli Sarada P Mishra Akshaya K Palai Tapan Kanai T S Dhami L M Kukreja A B Samui

pp 289-294 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Optimization for sinusoidal profiles in surface relief gratings recorded on photoresist

Sanjiva Kumar Amrita Debnath R B Tokas K Divakar Rao D V Udupa N K Sahoo

pp 295-300 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Electromagnetically-induced transparency in Doppler-broadened five-level systems

Azeem B Mirza Suneel Singh

pp 301-306 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Spectral narrowing of coherent population trapping resonance in laser-cooled and room-temperature atomic gas

S Pradhan S Mishra R Behera N Kawade A K Das

pp 307-312 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Modulational instability of nematic phase

T Mithun K Porsezian

pp 313-319 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

A comparative study on dual colour soft aperture cascaded second-order mode-locking with different nonlinear optical crystals

Shyamal Mondal Satya Pratap Singh Sourabh Mukhopadhyay Aditya Date Kamal Hussain Shouvik Mukherjee Prasanta Kumar Datta

pp 321-325 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Picosecond nonlinear optical properties of cuprous oxide with different nano-morphologies

P Harshavardhan Reddy H Sekhar D Narayana Rao

pp 327-330 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Observation of two-photon absorption at UV radiation in ZnS quantum dots

Manajit Chattopadhyay Pathik Kumbhakar Udit Chatterjee

pp 331-337 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Synthesis of Cu₂O, CuCl, and Cu2OCl₂ nanoparticles by ultrafast laser ablation of copper in liquid media

Syed Hamad G Krishna Podagatlapalli Surya P Tewari S Venugopal Rao

pp 339-345 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Impact of higher-order dispersion in the modulational instability spectrum of a relaxing coupled saturable media

K Nithyanandan R Vasantha Jayakantha Raja T Uthayakumar K Porsezian

pp 347-351 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Laser shock peening of steam turbine blade for enhanced service life

R Sundar B K Pant Harish Kumar P Ganesh D C Nagpure P Haedoo Rakesh Kaul K Ranganathan K S Bindra S M Oak L M Kukreja

pp 353-358 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Size-independent peak shift between normal and upconversion photoluminescence in MPA-capped CdTe nanoparticles

S Ananthakumar J Jayabalan Asha Singh Salahuddin Khan Subhash Prajapati S Moorthy Babu Rama Chari

pp 359-364 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Coherent oscillations of holes in GaAs_0.86P_0.14/Al_0.7Ga_0.3As surface quantum well

Salahuddin Khan J Jayabalan Asha Singh Rama Chari Suparna Pal S Porwal T K Sharma S M Oak

pp 365-371 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Spectral analysis of K-shell X-ray emission of magnesium plasma produced by ultrashort high-intensity laser pulse irradiation

V Arora U Chakravarty Manoranjan P Singh J A Chakera P A Naik P D Gupta

pp 373-377 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

CO₂ laser-inscribed low-cost, shortest-period long-period fibre grating in B–Ge co-doped fibre for high-sensitivity strain measurement

Smita Chaubey Sanjay Kher Jai Kishore S M Oak

pp 379-383 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Linearly polarized intracavity passive Q-switched Yb-doped photonic crystal fibre laser

Usha Chakravarty Antony Kuruvilla Rajpal Singh B N Upadhyay K S Bindra S M Oak

pp 385-389 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Infrared differential absorption lidar for stand-off detection of chemical agents

A K Razdan S Veerabuthiran M K Jindal R K Sharma

pp 391-395 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Deriving aerosol scattering ratio using range-resolved lidar ratio

Reji K Dhaman V Krishnakumar V P Mahadevan Pillai M Satyanarayana K Raghunath

pp 397-401 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Biomedical and environmental applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

V K Unnikrishnan K S Choudhari Suresh D Kulkarni Rajesh Nayak V B Kartha C Santhosh B M Suri

pp 403-408 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Measurement of radiative lifetime in atomic samarium using simultaneous detection of laser-induced fluorescence and photoionization signals

A C Sahoo M L Shah P K Mandal A K Pulhani G P Gupta Vas Dev B M Suri

pp 409-412 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Upconversion studies in rare earth ions-doped lanthanide materials

A K Singh K Kumar S B Rai

pp 413-417 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Tunable third-harmonic probe for non-degenerate ultrafast pump–probe measurements

Asha Singh Salahuddin Khan Podili Sivasankaraiah J Jayabalan Rama Chari

pp 419-423 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Optimization of transfer of laser-cooled atom cloud to a quadrupole magnetic

S P Ram S K Tiwari S R Mishra H S Rawat

pp 425-431 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Time-dependent micro-Raman scattering studies of polyvinyl alcohol and silver nitrate thin films

K Shadak Alee D Narayana Rao

pp 433-437 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Manipulation of microparticles and red blood cells using optoelectronic tweezers

R S Verma R Dasgupta N Kumar S Ahlawat A Uppal P K Gupta

pp 439-444 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Three-dimensional instantaneous velocity field measurement using digital holography microscope

Dhananjay Kumar Singh P K Panigrahi

pp 445-449 February 2014 Contributed Papers Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

Measurement of copper vapour laser-induced deformation of dielectric-coated mirror surface by Michelson interferometer

A Wahid S Kundu J S B Singh A K Singh A Khattar S K Maurya J S Dhumal K Dasgupta

pp 451-462 February 2014 Special Issue on Proceedings of the DAE–BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-21) - Part II

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