Photonics, Plasmonics and Information Optics: Research and Technological Advances

This edited volume covers technological developments and current research trends in the field of photonics, plasmonics and optics, focusing on photonic crystals, semiconductor optical devices, optical communications and optical sensors, with an emphasis on practical sectors. It broadly contains the latest research domains contributed by experts and researchers in their respective fields with a major focus on the basic physics. Works in the area of electromagnetic bandgap structures (EBG) and metasurfaces are included for applications in different aspects of communications systems. Further, it covers research phenomena of microwave photonic devices to develop miniaturized high-frequency devices.

FEATURES

• Reviews nonlinear optical phenomena related with materials and crystals and plasmonic effects on device fabrications
• Contains a detailed analysis on photonic crystals with their applications in making all-optical passive components
• Focusses on nonlinear optics, more precisely on crystals and materials, and computational aspects on evaluating their properties from Maxwell’s equations
• Presents an extensive study on the physics of EBG structures for application in antenna and high-frequency communications
• Includes metamaterials and metasurfaces for applications in photonics as well as in microwave engineering for high-frequency communication systems

Photonics, Plasmonics and Information Optics: Research and Technological Advances is aimed at researchers, professionals and graduate students in optical communication, silicon photonics, photonic crystals, semiconductor optical devices, metamaterials and metasurfaces, and microwave photonics.

Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998 and 2000 respectively. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He is the recipient of the coveted National Award Adarsh Vidya Saraswati Rashtriya Puraskar for excellence in education and research in 2016. He is the recipient of the Distinguished HoD Award and Distinguished Professor Award conferred by Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter, India in 2017. He received the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University of South America and the South East Asian Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He also received the Rashtriya Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar from Center for Education Growth and Research, India in 2017. He has been appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for the tenure 2018-2020. He received the Young Scientist (Science & Technology) Award from CSERD, India in 2018. He is currently serving as the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. In addition, he is also serving as the Professor of Computer Application and Dean (Research and Development) of the institute. He served as a Senior Research Scientist in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech republic. Prior to this, he was the Professor of Information Technology of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He served as the Head of the Department from March, 2014 to December, 2016. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Information Technology of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India from 2011-2014. Before that, he served as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology of University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology of Kalyani Government Engineering College, India during 2001-2005. He is a co-author of 5 books and the co-editor of 30 books and has more than 200 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got two PCTs to his credit. He was the convener of the AICTE-IEEE National Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (CoCoSys-09) in 2009. He was the member of the Young Researchers’ Committee of the WSC 2008 Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications. He has been the member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He served as the Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI) published by IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA from 17th July 2014 to 06th November 2014. He was the General Chair of several international conferences like ICCICN 2014, ICRCICN 2015, ICRCICN 2016 and ICRCICN 2018 organized by the Department of Information Technology, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata and held at Kolkata, India. He is the Associate Editor of International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research and the founding Editor in Chief of International Journal of Hybrid Intelligence; Publisher: Inderscience. He is the member of the editorial board of International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology and ACCENTS Transactions on Information Security (ATIS). He is also the member of the editorial advisory board of HETC Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications. He is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of BioInfo Soft Computing, IEEE Access and Evolutionary Intelligence, Springer. He is the member of the editorial board of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, B. V. He was the Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Hybrid Intelligent Techniques for Image Analysis and Understanding of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, B. V. He was the Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Computational Intelligence and Communications in International Journal of Computers and Applications (IJCA); Publisher: Taylor & Francis, UK in 2016. He is the Editor of International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research since January 2016. He was the General Chair of the 2016 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Network Security and Signal Processing (WCNSSP2016) held during June 26-27, 2016 at Chiang Mai, Thailand. He was also the General Chair of First International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP 2017) organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India and held at Sikkim during September 08-10, 2017. He is serving as the Series Editors of IGI Global Book Series Advances in Information Quality and Management (AIQM), De Gruyter Book Series Frontiers in Computational Intelligence (FCI), CRC Press Book Series Computational Intelligence and Applications, Wiley Book Series Intelligent Signal and Data Processing and Elsevier Book Series Hybrid Computational Intelligence for Pattern Analysis and Understanding. His research interests include soft computing, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, hybrid intelligence and quantum computing. Dr. Bhattacharyya is a life fellow of Optical Society of India (OSI), India, life fellow of International Society of Research and Development (ISRD), UK, a fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India and a fellow of Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is also a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA. He is a life member of Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI), Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI), Center for Education Growth and Research (CEGR), Integrated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), and Association of Leaders and Industries (ALI). He is a member of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, International Rough Set Society, International Association for Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), USA, International Association of Academicians, Scholars, Scientists and Engineers (IAASSE), USA, Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists (IDES), India, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) and The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). He is also a certified Chartered Engineer of Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He has been inducted in the Board of Directors of International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong. Arpan Deyasi is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering in RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, INDIA. He has 13 years of professional experience in academics and industry. He received B.Sc (Hons), B.Tech, M.Tech Degree from University of Calcutta. He is working in the area of semiconductor nanostructure and semiconductor photonics. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed research papers, and a few edited volumes under the banner of CRC Press, IGI Global etc. His major teaching subjects are Solid State Device, Electromagnetics, Photonics. He has already organized International and National Conferences, Faculty Development Programmes, Workshops, Laboratory and Industrial Visits, Seminars and Technical Events for students under the banner of IE(I) Kolkata section. He is also associated with a few reputed conferences. He is reviewer of a few journals of repute and some prestigious conferences in INDIA and abroad. He has delivered a few talks and conducted hands-on sessions on Nanolelectronics, Photonics and Electromagnetics in various FDP’s, workshops, seminars. He is the editor of various conference proceedings and edited volumes. He is a member of IEEE Electron Device Society, IE(I), Optical Society of India, IETE, ISTE, ACM etc. He is working as SPOC of RCCIIT Local Chapter (NPTEL course), Nodal Coordinator of e-outreach programme and Internshala, Faculty Advisor of the student chapter of Institution of Engineers (INDIA) in ECE Department. Asit K. Datta is a former Professor and ex-Head of the Department of Applied Physics and later of Dept of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta. He received his Ph. D. degree in power electronics from the University of Calcutta. After his retirement from Calcutta University, he acted as Dean and mentor of three engineering colleges in West Bengal. He was teaching and conducting research for more than 40 years in the Dept of Applied Physics and the Applied Optics and Photonics. Professor Datta has contributed significantly in the area of power electronics, control instrumentation, photonic image processing and photonics computing. He executed 12 funded and sponsored research projects and has published more than 120 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings and also guided 14 research students towards their Ph.D. degrees. He has also published two books through CRC press in the area of face recognition and Information Photonics. He represented India at the International Commission for Optics (ICO), Paris and was the Indian representative in two divisions of the International Commission of Illumination (CIE), Geneva. He was an Advisor of UPSC, Member of Photonics programme of DRDO, expert of NBA in electronics and communication. Pampa Debnath is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering in RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, INDIA. She has more than 12 years of professional teaching experience in academics. She received B.Tech, M.Tech Degree from the University of Burdwan. Her research interest covers the area of Microwave devices, Microstrip Patch antennas, SIW based circuit and Antenna. She has published several research papers in IEEE Xpore, Microsystem Technologies- Springer, CRC Press and in some National and International conferences, and a few edited volumes under the banner of CRC Press, IGI Global etc. Her major teaching subjects are Electromagnetics, RF & Microwave and Antenna. She has already served as Editor as well as Technical chair of One International Conference (ICCSE 2016) which is published by CRC Press, coordinated a few Faculty Development Programmes, Workshops, Laboratory and Industrial visits, seminars and technical events under the banner of The Institution of Engineers (INDIA) Kolkata section. She is also associated with a few National and International conference. She is a reviewer of few journals of repute and some national and International conferences. She is the editor of various conference proceedings and edited volumes. She has conducted hands on session on Photonics, Electromagnetics and Microwaves in various FDP’s, workshops, seminars. She is a member of The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), International Association for Engineers (IAENG).