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Department of Physics
     
C. S. Narayanamurthy, Ph.D.
Senior Professor
 
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Email: murthy@iist.ac.in













Education

Ph.D. (IIT, Madras)


Course Offered

1. Electricity and Magnetism 2. Electromagnetic Theory 3. Lasers and Opto-Electronics 4. Guided Wave Optics 5. Modern Optics 6. Adaptive Optics


Experience
  • Lecturer, Department of Physics, Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat from 1988-1993, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar from 1993 to 1996, Reader (Associate Professor), in modern optics, Applied Physics Department, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, 1996-2007, Professor and Head of Department, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, 2007-2013, Senior Professor and Head Of Department, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, 2014-2015, Senior Professor, Department of Physics, IIST, September 2015.......

Research Work / Area
  • Holography, Optical coherence, Non-linear photorefractive optics, Optical testing, Interferometry, Electromagnetic theory, Adaptive optics (optical imaging through turbulance medium).

Funded Project

 

No

Name of the Scheme

Sponsored by

Completed/

Under Progress

1.

Real-Time holographic Metrology using BTO

D.S.T.,Govt.Of India

Completed

2.

Real-Time holographic phase-shifting Interferometry for Metrology

A.I.C.T.E,

Govt.Of India

Completed

3.

Photorefractive holography using small power lasers

U.G.C,

Govt.Of India

Completed

4.

Surface shape and slope measurements of 3-D objects using Digital holography

A.I.C.T.E.,

Govt.of India

Completed

 

 


Teaching Interest

1. Adaptive Optics, 2. Electromagnetic Theory 3. Fourier Optics 4. Modern Optics 5. Lasers and Opto-Electronics 6. Plasmonics


Publications

1. Iterative method of baffle design for modified Ritchey-Chretein (RC) telescope, M. Senthil Kumar,C.S.Narayanamurthy,A.S.KiranKumar, Applied Optics (OSA, USA), Vol,52, No.6, 1240 – 1247 (2013)

2. Focal length measurement of microlens array for Shack-Hartman wavefront sensor using interferometer, M Senthil Kumar, C S Narayanamurthy and A S Kiran Kumar, Optical Engineering (SPIE, USA) 52(12), December 2013

3. Determination of the focal length of microlens array by spherical wavefront, M Senthil Kumar, Rahul Sharma, C S Narayanamurthy and A S Kiran Kumar, Optical Engineering(SPIE, USA), 53(6), June 2014

4. Wave propagation analysis using variance matrix, Richa Sharma, Solomon J Ivan and C S Narayanamurthy, Jl. Opt. Soc. Am A, 31, 21852191 (2014)

5. Design and development of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor based testing of high resolution optical system for earth observation, M Senthil Kumar, C S Narayanamurthy and A S Kiran Kumar, Optical Engineering(SPIE, USA), 53(11), 114101, November 2014 

6. Phase-sharing using Mach-Zehnder interferometer, Jebathilagar Ivan, Lijo Thomas, Ameen Yasir, Richa Sharma, Rakesh Singh, Chittur Narayanamurthy, and K S Dasgupta, Appl. Opt. 54, 699706 (2015)

7. Single and double passage interferometric analysis of pseudo random phase plates , Richa Sharma and C S Narayanamurthy, Optics Communications, 345 (2015) 37-46

8. Comparative statistical analysis of phase profiles of a pseudo-random phase plate using Kolomogorov phase screen, Richa Sharma, Solomon J Ivan and C S Narayanamurthy, Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics (Elsevier), 126(23), 4195-4201, 2015

9. Characterization of Pseudo-Random-Phase-Plate as a Kolmogorov/non-Kolmogorov turbulence simulator using statistical parameters and the phase structure function, Richa Sharma andC. S. Narayanamurthy, Jl. Optics(India) Springer, August 2015

10. Design and analysis of optimum baffle for a Cassegrain telescope, M Senthil Kumar, C S Narayanamurthy and A S Kiran Kumar, Journal of Optics (India) Springer, 1-6 · November 2015 

11. Measurement of optical misalignment using wavefront sensing, Naimesh Patel, and C S Narayanamurthy, Optical Engineering (SPIE) 54(10), 10410, 2015

12. Geometric phase shifting digital holography, Boaz Jessie Jackin, C S Narayanamurthy and Toyohiko Yatagai, Optics Letters, Vol 41(11), 2648-2651, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Awards

1. BOYSCAST FELLOWSHIP(1990-1991)

2. ICTP, Trieste, Itlay, Regular Associateship (1997-2002)

3. INSA-DAAD Visiting Fellowship to Universitat Stuttgart, Germany (2005-2006)

4. Elected OPTICAL SOCIETY Of INDIA's DISTINGUISHED FELLOW, 2021

5. INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR OPTICS (ICO)'s GALILEO Galilei AWARD 2022 

6. ELECTED FELLOW OF SPIE(Optics and Photonics), USA 2023

 

Post Doctoral Experiences

  1. BOYSCAST Fellow at Imperial College, London, U.K during 1990-1991. Title of work : Photorefractive holography using BSO(Bismuth Silicon Oxide)

  1. ICTP(International Center for Theoretical Physics), Trieste, Italy from 01.10.1998 to 20.12.1998 on Fourier Optics and Photorefractive Optics.

 Fellowship : ICTP’s Regular Associateship(1997-2002)

 iii) ICTP(International Center for Theoretical Physics), Trieste, Italy from 23.05.2000 to 20.08.2000 on Fourier Optics and Photorefractive Optics.

 Fellowship : ICTP’s Regular Associateship(1997-2002)

 v) ICTP(International Center for Theoretical Physics), Trieste, Italy from

 06.06.2002 to 03.09.2002 on Fourier Optics and Photorefractive Optics.

 Fellowship : ICTP’s Regular Associateship(1997-2002)

 v) INSA-DAAD Exchange fellow at Institu Fur Technishe Optik, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany from

 30.03.2006 to 29.06.2006

vi) Visiting Researcher, CORE(Center for Optical Research and Education), Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan, May -June 2015

 

 

1. Iterative method of baffle design for modified Ritchey-Chretein (RC) telescope,M. Senthil Kumar,C.S.Narayanamurthy,A.S.KiranKumar, Applied Optics (OSA, USA), Vol,52, No.6, 1240 – 1247 (2013)

2. Focal length measurement of microlens array for Shack-Hartman wavefront sensor using interferometer, M Senthil Kumar, C S Narayanamurthy and A S Kiran Kumar, Optical Engineering (SPIE, USA) 52(12), December 2013

3. Determination of the focal length of microlens array by spherical wavefront, M Senthil Kumar, Rahul Sharma, C S Narayanamurthy and A S Kiran Kumar, Optical Engineering(SPIE, USA), 53(6), June 2014

4. Wave propagation analysis using variance matrix, Richa Sharma, Solomon J Ivan and C S Narayanamurthy, Jl. Opt. Soc. Am A, 31, 21852191 (2014)

5. Design and development of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor based testing of high resolution optical system for earth observation, M Senthil Kumar, C S Narayanamurthy and A S Kiran Kumar, Optical Engineering(SPIE, USA), 53(11), 114101, November 2014 

6. Phase-sharing using Mach-Zehnder interferometer, Jebathilagar Ivan, Lijo Thomas, Ameen Yasir, Richa Sharma, Rakesh Singh, Chittur Narayanamurthy, and K S Dasgupta, Appl. Opt. 54, 699706 (2015)

7. Single and double passage interferometric analysis of pseudo random phase plates , Richa Sharma and C S Narayanamurthy, Optics Communications, 345 (2015) 37-46

8. Comparative statistical analysis of phase profiles of a pseudo-random phase plate using Kolomogorov phase screen, Richa Sharma, Solomon J Ivan and C S Narayanamurthy, Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics (Elsevier), 126(23), 4195-4201, 2015

9. Characterization of Pseudo-Random-Phase-Plate as a Kolmogorov/non-Kolmogorov turbulence simulator using statistical parameters and the phase structure function, Richa Sharma andC. S. Narayanamurthy, Jl. Optics(India) Springer, August 2015

10.Design and analysis of optimum baffle for a Cassegrain telescope, M Senthil Kumar, C S Narayanamurthy and A S Kiran Kumar, Journal of Optics (India) Springer, 1-6 · November 2015 

 

11. Measurement of optical misalignment using wavefront sensing, Naimesh Patel, and C S Narayanamurthy, Optical Engineering (SPIE) 54(10), 10410, 2015

 

12. Geometric phase shifting digital holography, Boaz Jessie Jackin, C S Narayanamurthy and Toyohiko Yatagai, Optics Letters, Vol 41(11), 2648-2651, 2016

 13. Investigations on vibration excitation of de-bonded sandwich structures using time averaged digital holography(TADH), Binu P Thomas, S Annamala Pillai and C S Narayanamurthy,Applied Optics(OSA), Vol.56, F7-F13, 2017, Editor's Pick

 14. Digital holographic photoelasticity, C S Narayanamurthy, Giancarlo Pedrini and Wolfgang Osten, Applied Optics(OSA), Vol. 56, F213 to F217, 2017

 15. Digital holographic study on the dynamic response of plates with geometric and material discontinuities simulating potted-insert metallic honeycomb sandwich structures,

           Binu P Thomas, S Annamala Pillai and C S Narayanamurthy, Applied Optics(OSA), Vol.    58,No.5/10             February 2019 A 33 – A40, (2019)

 16. Photoelastic digital holographic polariscope, Binu P Thomas, S Annamala Pillai and C S    Narayanamurthy, Jl.Of Modern Optics(Taylor and Francis), VOL. 66, NO. 8, 817–828, (2019) 

17. Vectorial shearing cascaded Sagnac interferometric wavefront sensor, Panchal, Pramod; Naik, Dinesh N; Narayanamurthy, C. S, OSA Continuum 2(9) 2658-2666(2019)

 18. Wavefront sensing for low-coherent sources through spatial coherence revival, Pramod Panchal , Dinesh N Naik and C S Narayanamurthy, Engineering Research  Express (IOPPublishing, U.K), 1, 025011 (2019)

 19. Optical metrology via the photorefractive effect, Arun Anand and C S Narayanamurthy, Asian Journal of Physics, Vol.28, No.10-12, PP 1035-1048, (2019)

 20. Reconstruction of complex-object using edge point referencing" by Gautam, Surya; Kumar Singh, Rakesh; Narayanamurthy, C; Naik, Dinesh, Jl.Of Optics (IOP, Publications,U.K), Vol.22 No.5,( 2020)

 21. Single-shot and twin-image free unique phase retrieval using a part of autocorrelation         about the object asymmetry Suryakumar Gautam, Rakeshkumar Singh, C S   Narayanamurthy and Dinesh N Naik, JOSA A 37 (11), 1826-1831, 2020

 22. Computed time average digital holographic fringe pattern under random excitation, Binu P Thomas, S Annamala Pillai and C S Narayanamurthy, Applied Optics 60 (4), A188-     A194, 2021

 23. Design of two-mirror telescope systems with freeform surfaces: modified configurations   and analysis, BV Rao, KV Sriram, CS Narayanamurthy, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 7 (1), 014002, 2021

24. Insensitivity of higher order topologically charged Laguerre–Gaussian beams to dynamic turbulence impact, P Panchal, DN Naik, CS Narayanamurthy, Optics Communications 495, 127023, 2021

 25. Vertical and spatial distribution of elevated aerosol layers obtained using long-term ground-based and space-borne lidar observations, G Gupta, MV Ratnam, BL Madhavan, P Prasad,C S Narayanamurthy, Atmospheric Environment 246, 118172, 2021

 26. Fried’s coherence length measurement of dynamic Kolmogorov type turbulence using the autocorrelation function, S R Lekshmi, DN Naik, CS Narayanamurthy, Journal of Optics (IOP, U.K), 24 (4), 044010, 2022

 27. Long-term trends in Aerosol Optical Depth across the globe obtained using multi-satellite measurements, G Gupta, M V Ratnam, B L Madhavan, C S Narayanamurthy, Atmospheric Environment, 118953, March, 2022

28. Spectral switch anomalies in a Sagnac interferometer with respect to a Galilean frameS Sadhukhan, S Sadhukhan, MM Brundavanam, CS Narayanamurthy, JOSA A 39 (11), 1976-1982, 2022

29. Lekshmi S.R., C.S. Narayanamurthy,The resilience of zero order Bessel–Gaussian Beams to the impact of dynamic Kolmogorov type of turbulence,Optics Communications,Volume 532,2023,129243,ISSN 0030-4018,DOI :https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2022.129243

30.  Lekshmi S.R., C.S. Narayanamurthy,  The impact of dynamic Kolmogorov-type turbulence on partially coherent Gaussian-Schell model beams. (accepted, Journal of Modern Optics, Taylor & Francis)