7.4 Future Prospects
7.4.1 Into the world of applications
As with most research, research does not end with just putting forward and ex-plaining how science works; but making it understandable and manipulate it to become useful to the world. Hence, the current work is not fully finished unless it is recognized in the world of applications. From the above discussions, it is clear that some of the future prospects definitely open doors to applications in various fields; like the very high-order modes for stronger trapping field, the NDF beams for long-range systems and the CVB for industry applications which gives hope that the work will form a part of a spectacular meteor shower in our skies someday in future.
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Curriculum Vitae
Last name: Thirugnanasambandam First name: Manasadevi Priyamvadha Born: 15 January 1985, Pondicherry, India Email: manasa@ils.uec.ac.jp
Education
Oct 2007- present
Ph.D, University of Electro-communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan.
Thesis title: High-Order Mode Generation in Yb:YAG ceramic laser.
July 2005 - June 2007
Masters in Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
July 2002 - June 2005
Bachelors in Physics, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India.
Research Experience
1. Summer Student Programme - Participated in the Summer Student Pro-gramme at Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India. (Guide: Prof.
G. Baskaran), May - July 2005.
2. VSRP - Participated in the Visiting Students Research Programme conducted by the School of Natural Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mum-bai. (Guide : Prof. Pranab Ghosh), May - July 2006.
3. Visiting student - Visiting student at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. (Guide: Dr. G. Ravindra Kumar), June - September 2007.
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Publications / Conference Proceedings
1. Generation of very-high order Laguerre-Gaussian modes in Yb:YAG ceramic laser,M.P. Thirugnanasambandam, Yu. Senatsky, and K. Ueda, Laser Phys. Lett.
7, No. 9, 637 (2010).
2. Multi-ring modes generation in Yb:YAG ceramic laser, Manasadevi P Thirug-nanasambandam, Yuri Senatsky, Akira Shirakawa, and Ken-ichi Ueda, Optical Materials (In press, Published online 11 Nov., 2010).
3. Generation of radially and azimuthally polarized beams in Yb:YAG laser with intra-cavity lens and birefringent crystal, Manasadevi P Thirugnanasambandam, Yuri Senatsky, and Ken-ichi Ueda, Opt. Express 19, 1905-1914 (2011).
4. Generation of beams with near-diffraction free propagation characteristics in Yb:YAG laser using intra-cavity lens with spherical aberration, Manasadevi P Thirugnanasambandam, Yuri Senatsky, and Ken-ichi Ueda, Proceedings of the 5th Asian Symposium on Intense Laser Science, Vietnam (2009) - Invited Paper.
5. Cavity mode coupling for generating near-diffraction free beams in Yb:YAG laser, Manasadevi P Thirugnanasambandam, Yuri Senatsky, and Ken-ichi Ueda, (Manuscript under preparation).
Oral/Poster presentations
Domestic
1. The Japanese Society of Applied Physics, Annual Meeting, September 2009.
Oral: Numerical Simulation of quasi-continuous laser diode pumped all ceramic composite Yb,Cr:YAG self-Q-switched laser.
2. 6th UEC-TUAT Joint COE Symposium Future Nano-Materials and Coherent Optical Science, December 2010.
Poster: Multi-ring beams generation in Yb:YAG ceramic laser
3. The Japanese Society of Applied Physics, Annual Meeting, March 2010.
BIBLIOGRAPHY 86 Oral: Generation of Laguerre-Gaussian modes in Yb: YAG laser using intra-cavity lens with strong spherical aberration.
4. The Japanese Society of Applied Physics, Annual Meeting, March 2010.
Oral: Multi-ring modes with near-diffraction free propagation characteristics gen-erated from an Yb:YAG laser with an intra-cavity aberration lens.
5. The Japanese Society of Applied Physics, Annual Meeting, September 2010.
Oral: Selection of azimuthal and radially polarized modes in Yb:YAG laser with intra-cavity lens and birefringent crystal.
6. 7th UEC-TUAT Joint COE Symposium Future Nano-Materials and Coherent Optical Science, December 2011.
Poster: Selection of azimuthal and radially polarized modes in Yb:YAG laser with intra-cavity lens and birefringent crystal.
International
1. 21st Century COE Program International Symposium on Coherent Optical Science, December 2007,
Poster: Efficient Composite Ceramics Self-Q-Switching Microchip Lasers
2. 21st Century COE Program International Symposium on Coherent Optical Science, December 2007
Poster: Effect of Ytterbium concentration on Yb:YAG microchip laser perfor-mance at ambient temperature
3. 4th Asian Summer School & Symposium On Laser- Plasma Acceleration And Radiation, Hshichu,Taiwan, July 2009.
Poster: Numerical Simulation of Quasi-continuous Wave Laser-Diode-Pumped Self-Q-Switched All-ceramic Composite Cr,Yb:YAG Laser
4. 5th Laser Ceramics Symposium, Bilbao, Spain, December 2009.
Poster: Multi- ring modes generation in Yb: YAG ceramic laser
5. 14th Laser Optics Conference, St.Petersburg, Russia, June-July 2010.
Oral: Generation of very high order Laguerre-Gaussian modes in Yb: YAG laser