Prof. Raman Kashyap

Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics
Polytechnique Montreal
Tel : +1 514 340 4711 Ext 7141
E-mail: raman.kashyap@polymtl.ca

Teaching Duties

Current Courses:
PHS4204: “Optoelectronics.”
ELE8508: “Fundamentals of Photonics.”
PHS6904A: Seminar course for MSc Students.
PHS7901: Seminar course for PhD Students.

Past Courses:
PHS4211: “Optical Communications,” 2004-2009.

Awards and Distinctions

• Life Fellow of Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science)
• Life Fellow of the Society for Optics and Photonics, (FSPIE)
• Killam Research Fellow (Canada Council for the Arts) 2012-14 in Engineering Physics/Electrical Engineering, EPM
• Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE)
• Fellow of the Optical Society of India (FOSI)
• Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC)
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FinstP)
• Fellow of the Optical Society of America, (FOSA)
• Canada Research Chair (TIER I), Joint appointment in Engineering Physics/Electrical Engineering , EPM, 2010-2017 (Renewed)
• Canada Research Chair (TIER I), Joint appointment in Engineering Physics/Electrical Engineering , EPM, 2003-2010.

Background

Professor
Polytechnique Montreal ▪ Montreal, Canada
Departments of Engineering Physics and Electrical Engineering

PhD in Physics
Essex University ▪ Colchester, Essex, UK

Bachelor Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Kings College, University of London, ▪ London, UK

Research Interests

Photonics, Optical Physics, Optical Fibres, Laser Induced Cooling, Atom Guidance, Nonlinear

Optics, Nonlinear Optical Devices, Optical Sensors, Semiconductor and Fibre Lasers, Optical

Communications, Fibre Bragg gratings, Periodically Poled crystals and Glasses, Radio Over

Fibre, Liquid Crystals, Laser Ablation and Materials Processing, Photosensitivity of Materials

Laser Writing of Optical Waveguides, Optical Damage in Glass.

Editorial Responsibilities

International Conference on Excitonic and Photonic Processes in Condensed Matter and Nano Materials, EXCON, May 2015, Montreal, Canada. Co-Chair and Editor of Proceedings.

International Conference on Optical and Optoelectronic Properties of Materials and Applications, ICOOPMA, June 2012, Nara, Japan. Vice Chair and Editor of Proceedings.

ERDOGAN. T.. FRIEBELE, E.J.. KASHYAP. R (Eds.): OSA Trends Opt. Photonics, Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, Poling in Glass Waveguides 2000, Vol. 33.

Invited Talks (most recent ones)

2015

(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, MRS meeting, “Observation of significantly increased Rayleigh scatter in UV-exposed optical fiber and its application in distributed sensing”, Waikiki, Hawaii, 15-20 December 2015.
(Plenary Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Introducing Photonics into Mobile Phones and Displays”, Second International Conference on Opto-Electronics and Applied Optics, IEM OPTRONIX 2015, 16th – 17th October, 2015, at University of British Columbia, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.
(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Ultra-high sensitivity optical fibre DTSS sensing with Rayleigh and stimulated Brillouin scattering,” 28 June – 2 July, OECC 2015, Shanghai, China.
(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Enhanced Optical Sensing using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering and Increased Rayleigh Scatter”, IEEE/ICOCN 2015, 3-5 July, 2015, Nanjing, China.
(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Laser cooling of rare-earth doped materials”, in Symposium on “Laser cooling of solids and optical refrigeration”, at the International Conferences on Materials for Advanced Technology 2015 (ICMAT2015), Singapore in June 28th-July 3rd, 2015.
(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Advances in Laser Cooling of Solids,” Photonics West 2015, San Francisco, February 2015.

2014

(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Multiplexing of optical fibre surface Plasmon sensors”, OPTIC’2014, 4-5, Dec. 2014, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.
(Invited Speaker) Jerome Lapointe, Mathieu Gagne and Raman Kashyap, “fs-Written Waveguides in Smartphones: The Future is Here”, I-Show University , Kaohsuing, Taiwan, 2 Dec. 2014.
(Invited Speaker) Jerome Lapointe, Mathieu Gagne and Raman Kashyap, “Fs laser writing of waveguides: The future is here”, National United University, Miaoli, Taiwan, 5 Dec. 2014.
(Invited Tutorial) Raman Kashyap, “Concatenated SPR Sensors”, Latin American Optics and Photonics (LAOP) 2014, Cancun, Nov. 2014.
(Invited Plenary) Raman Kashyap, “Multiplexed fibre optic surface Plasmon”, The International Conference on Optics, Photonics & Photosciences (CIOFF), 14-17 October 2014, Havana, Cuba.
(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Short DFB Random Fibre Lasers”, Workshop on Random Lasers- Random Lasers: The last 20 Years…and the Next!, 14-15 August 2014, Recife, Brazil.
(Invited Speaker) S. Loranger, E. S. de Lima Fihlo, Y.-J. Yu, Y. Ledemi, Y. Messaddeq and Raman Kashyap, “How Cool is Light?”, ICOOPMA 2014, Leeds, UK, 27 July-1 August, 2014.
(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Tunable photonic bandgap structures”, OECC/ACOFT, 6-10 July 2014, Melbourne, Australia.
(Invited Speaker) G. Nemova, S. Loranger, E. S. de Lima Fihlo, Y.-J. Yu, Y. Ledemi, Y. Messaddeq and Raman Kashyap, “Materials and techniques for efficient laser cooling of solids,”, RADIO 2014, Mauritius, 7-10 April 2014.
(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Fun with Lasers and Sensors in the Fabulas Laboratory”, Queens University Lecture, 28 March 2014, Queens University, Kingston, Canada.
(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Fundamental of fiber fuse and possible impact on multimode and multicore fibers for space-division multiplexing”, in session on “System impact of nonlinear transmission in SDM fibers”, OFC Workshop, 9-13 March 2014, San Francisco, USA.
(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Nonlinear PPLN Structures For Broadband Frequency Conversion And High Power Generation”, ICOL, Dehradun, India, 5-8 March 2014.

2013

(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “We will not let Brillouin die: Stimulating Brillouin again,” UFPE, Recife, Brazil, 6 December 2013.
(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, “Converting hot into cold with light,” University of Brasilia, Brazil, 2 December 2013.
(Invited Speaker) Raman Kashyap, Victor Lambin Iezzi and Sebastien Loranger, “A simple and flexibe nonlinear optical source using higher order SBS in optical fibres,” Nonlinear Optical Applications, 2013, Gdansk Poland, 18-21 September 2013.
(Invited Speaker) Victor Lambin Iezzi, Sebastien Loranger and Raman Kashyap, “New ways to generate ps pulses at multi-GHz repetition rates”, Information Photonics 2013, Warsaw, Poland, 16-19 September 2013.
(Invited Speaker) Victor Lambin Iezzi, Sebastien Loranger and Raman Kashyap, “So What Else Can We Do With Stimulated Brillouin Scattering?”, China-Quebec Collaboration, University of Laval, Quebec, 10-11 Sept. 2013.

Publications List

For the complete list of publications, please click here

Books

Kashyap, R, FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS, 2nd. Ed., Academic Press, 614 pages, 2010.
Kashyap R, FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS, Academic Press, ISBN 0124005608, 458 pages, 1999. (>1900 citations)

Book Chapters

Victor Lambin Iezzi, Sebastien Loranger and Raman Kashyap, “Brillouin scattering; from characterization to novel applications”, In press “Odyssey of Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers: Theory and Experiments”, Ed. K. Porsezian, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, In Press, March 2015.
Jerome Lapointe and Raman Kashyap, “Laser Processed Photonic Devices,” Ed. Gerd Marowsky, Springer Verlag Series, January 2015.
BC3. M. H. Tehran, J. J. Laurin and R. Kashyap, “Low scattering photodiode-modulated probe for microwave near-field imaging”, In Photodiodes: Communication, bio-sensing, measurements, and high-frequency physics, Ed. Jin-Wei Shi, INTECH 2011.
Raman Kashyap and Jose Miguel Lopez-Higurea, “Fiber Grating Technology: Theory, Photosensitivity, Fabrication and Characterisation”, Chapter in Handbook for optical fiber Sensing Technology, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, 2002.
Raman Kashyap, “Nonlinear Optics Of Optical Fibres”, in Proceedings of NATO ASI on ‘Trends in optical Fibre Metrology & Standards’, Ed. Prof. O Soares, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1994.
Raman Kashyap, “Phase-matching for second-harmonic generation in optical waveguides”, in “Optical fibres for telecommunications and sensor applications”, ed. Prof. B P Pal, Chapter 7, pp146-197, Eastern Wiley Limited, 1992.
Raman Kashyap, “Light sensitive optical fibres and planar waveguides”, in Optical Technology, Pub. Blackie & Co. London, 1991.