1. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 1 Research in Fiber Optic Communication and Photonics Prof. R.K. Shevgaonkar rks@ee.itb.ac.in

2. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 2 Research Work in Progress/ Completed DE Designing of Special Characteristics fibers viz. DFF, DCF & Leaf-NZ-DF. Grating based devices for dispersion compensation in WDM systems. Analysis of fibre Bragg grating in Optical WDM Netwrok as Add-Drop Device. Optimisation of grating parameters for minimising ISI and crosstalk. Optical Wireless Communication. Walk-off Compensation in very Long distance Bit-Parallel WDM Link. Development of Multi-gigabit per second WDM source Development of DWDM Link with EDFA. Optically Controlled printed Semiconductor Antenna Academia Industry Meet 2002, Electrical Engineering Department

3. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 3 Fiber Bragg Grating based devices Uniform Apodizes – Gaussian, GZM, Chirped Optical Add/Drop Mux Study of Signal Distortion Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) Interchannel Cross-Talk (ICCT) RIN noise due to ISI, ICCT → Pdf of Noise → BER Calculation Design of FBG for min RIN (perturbation Method) Wide band Dispersion Compensator Tilted FBG for Mode Convertion Academia Industry Meet 2002, Electrical Engineering Department

4. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 4 Academia Industry Meet 2002, Electrical Engineering Department

5. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 5 Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier Low & High power Analysis Cross Talk in WDM channels Experimental Measurement of XT Multi Channel WDM Source Pulsed wide band Source Fibre Laser, SPM, Super Continum Generation Tunability of the λ-Comb Study of Evolution of Non-Solitonic Pulses into Solutions and their Interaction Development of a FO Link Simulation Software Academia Industry Meet 2002, Electrical Engineering Department

6. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 6 Research in Optical Character Recognition Development of English & Devnagri Script Recognition Systems Printed Scripts Cursive Scripts Devnagri Script Reading System Character Recognition & Phoneme Generation Automatic Signature Verification Tool for Banking Application. Cheque Amount Reading System for Banking Applications Academia Industry Meet 2002, Electrical Engineering Department

7. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 7 List of the Ongoing/Completed Sponsored Projects Fibre Optic Communication (M.H.R.D., India) Optically Controlled Printed Semiconductor Antennas (DoE, India) Fibre Optic Communication & Photonic Switching (M.H.R.D., India) Wavelength Division Multiplexed Fiber Optic Link (A.I.C.T.E., India) Development of an all-fibre Optic, Scalable, Superdense, Multi-Gbit/s WDM Source (DoE, India) Academia Industry Meet 2002, Electrical Engineering Department