Areas of Interest
Current Research
Students
Current PhD Students
- PH20D022 LAXMAN MANDAL
- PH20D032 JASPAL SINGH
Recent Publications
- Effect of visibility of the fringes on the tilt measurement using a cyclic interferometer and polarization phase shifting.
V. C. Pretheesh Kumar; C. Joenathan; A. Bernal; A. R. Ganesan
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Proceedingsof SPIE- Optical Fabrication, Testing, and Metrology VI.
10692 .
2018.
2018.
- Nanoscale Tilt Measurement using A Cyclic Interferometer with Polarization Phase Stepping and Multiple Reflections.
C. Joenathan, T. Naderishahab, A. Bernal, A. B. Krovetz, V. C. Pretheesh Kumar and A. R. Ganesan
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Applied Optics.
57 .
B52-B58.
2018.
- Quantitative assessment of soft issue deformation using digital speckle pattern interferometry: studies on phantom breast models.
Udayakumar Karuppanan, Sujatha Narayanan Unni, Ganesan R. Angarai
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Journalof Medical Imaging.
5 .
DOI: 10.1117/1.
2017.
- Analysis of blue light pixels for detection of preferred retinal locus
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V Kalikivayi, K Kannan and AR Ganesan,.
Ophthalmology Case Reports
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2017.
- Investigation of magnetic, dielectric and ethanol sensing properties of poly(o-phenylenediamine)/NiFe2O4 nanocomposites.
18. Kannapiran Nagarajan; Athianna Muthusamy, Ph.D.,; Renganathan B.; Ganesan A. R, Jayaprakash Rajan
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Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics.
29 .
3135–3145.
2017.
- Experimental investigation of natural convection in a rectangular cavity with two protruded half cylinders using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
Akhil Krishnan Maliackal, A. R. Ganesan, Annamalai Mani
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Proceeding of SPIE.
10373
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DOI: 10.1117/12.2273716.
2017.
- Effect of beam quality on tilt measurement using cyclic interferometer
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V.C. Preetheesh Kumar, A.R. Ganesan, C. Joenathan, and U. Somasundaram.
Proceedings of SPIE.
9960 .
DOI: 10.1117/12.2240623.
2016.
- Increasing the Sensitivity for tilt measurement using a cyclic interferometer with multiple reflections
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V.C. Preetheesh Kumar, C. Joenathan, A.R. Ganesan and U. Somasundaram.
Optical Engineering.
55 .
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.55.8.084103.
2016.
- Fiber Optic Vapor Sensor using Nanocrystalline Al2O3 coated modified cladding
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B. Renganathan and A.R. Ganesan.
International conference on Optics and Photonics held at Univ. of Calcutta, India.
2015.
- Tolerance analysis of misalignment in an Optical System using Shack Hartmann Wavefront Sensor
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K. Venkatramana, V.C. Preetheesh Kumar, K. Kannan and A.R. Ganesan.
An experimental study Optical Engineering 54(7), 075104 (2015).
54.
2015.
- Influence of Annealing on Optical Fiber Gas Sensing Properties of TiO2
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Nanomateria
B. Renganathan and A.R..
International Journal of Chemical Technology.
47.
878-883.
2015.
- Daylight enhancement using laser cut panels integrated with a profiled Fresnel Collector
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M G Nair, A.R. Ganesan and K Ramamurthy.
Lighting Research & Technology.
47 .
1017-1018.
DOI: 10.1177/1477153514556524.
2015.
- Digital speckle pattern interferometry based anomaly detection in breast mimicking phantoms: A pilot study
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K. Udayakumar, N. Sujathaa and A. R. Ganesan
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Proc. SPIE 9417, Medical Imaging 2015: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging.
DOI: 10.1117/12.2081594.
2015.
- Study on decentration-induced optical aberrations in an optical system using Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor
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K. Venkatramana and A.R. Ganesan.
Optical System Alignment, Tolerancing, and Verification VIII, SPIE Optics + Photonics conference, San Diego, California, 16-20 Aug.( 2014).
2014.
- Nanocrystalline Samarium Oxide Coated Fiber Optic Gas Sensor
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B. Renganathan, D. Sastikumar, R. Srinivasan and A.R. Ganesan
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Material Science & Engineering B
.
186.
122-127.
2014.
- Conceptual Design and Assessment of Profiled Fresnel Lens Daylight Collector
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M G Nair, A.R. Ganesan and K Ramamurthy.
Lighting Research & Technology.
DOI: 10.1177/1477153514535421.
2014.
- Nanocrystalline Cerium Oxide Coated Fiber Optic Gas Sensor
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B. Renganathan, D. Sastikumar, A. Chandra Bose, R. Srinivasan and A.R. Ganesan.
Current Applied Physics.
14 .
467-471.
2014.
- Classification of Daylight enhancement systems
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M G Nair, K Ramamurthy and A R Ganesan.
Lighting Research and Technology..
46 .
245-267.
DOI: 10.1177/1477153513483299..
2014.
- Effect of annealing on toxic gas sensing using samarium oxide as optical fiber cladding
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B. Renganathan and A.R. Ganesan.
Presented at Photonics 2014, International conference on Optics & Photonics held at IIT Kharagpur, India.
2014.
- Performance studies of anidolic concentrator with light pipes for daylighting in buildings
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Manju G Nair, A R Ganesan and K Ramamurthy
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International Conference on Materials Mechanics and Management, College of Engineering Trivandrum, India..
2014.
- Fiber optic gas sensors with vanadium oxide and tungsten oxide nanoparticle coated claddings
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B. Renganathan, D.Sastikumar, S.GokulRaj and A.R.Ganesan.
Opt. Commun..
315 .
-7874.
2014.
- Fiber optic gas sensor with nanocrystalline ZnO
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B. Renganathan and A.R. Ganesan.
Optical & Fiber technology.
20 .
48-52.
2014.
- Characterization of Fresnel lens as daylight concentrator
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Manju G Nair, A R Ganesan and K Ramamurthy.
International Conference , Advances in Building Sciences, IIT Madras, India.
71-80.
2013.
- Nanocrystalline Aluminum Oxide Coating Fiber Optic Vapour Sensors
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B. Renganathan, D. Sastikumar, R. Srinivasan, A. Chandra bose and A.R. Ganesan.
Nanocrystalline Aluminum Oxide Coating Fiber Optic Vapour Sensors.
25 .
373-377.
2013.
- Novel Adaptive Optics Deformable Mirrors using Magnet-Polymer Composite membranes
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A.R. Ganesan, V.M. Murukeshan, V. Q. Nguyen and R. V. Ramanujan
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J. of Adv. Sci. Engg & Med. Vol.5, no.5., 449-454 (2013).
5 .
449-454.
2013.
- Nanocrystalline wo3coated fiber optic sensor for toxic gas detection,
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B.Renganathan,D.Sastikumar,G,Gobi,S.Gokulraj, A.R.Ganesan.
OSI Conference, Pondicherry, India, 2013.
2013.
- Metal-Dielectric composite for Dispersion-free Optics
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M Balasubrahmaniyam, Anuradha Patra, A R Ganesan, S Kasiviswanathan.
AIP Proceedings.
1512 .
252.
2013.
- A novel method for detection of preferred retinal locus (PRL) through simple image processing using MATLAB
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K. Venkatramana , A.R. Ganesan.
presented at SPIE Optics + Photonics conference held at San Diego, California.
2013.
- Metal-Dielectric composite medium for Dispersion-free Optics
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M Balasubrahmaniyam, Anuradha Patra, A R Ganesan, S Kasiviswanathan.
DAE conference, Mumbai, Dec.(2012).
2012.
- Adaptive Optics in Vision Science
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A. R. Ganesan.
Proc. of the International Conf. on “Contemporary Trends in Optics and Optoelectronics, held at IISc Trivandrum.
2011.
- Optical response of Asymmetrically sandwiched AuNPs:TCO effective medium
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M Balasubrahmaniyam, Anuradha Patra, A R Ganesan, S Kasiviswanathan,.
ICANN 2011, International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, held at IIT Guwahati, India, Dec. 8-10 (2011).
2011.
- Adaptive Optics in Imaging and Vision Science
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A.R. Ganesan.
Proc. of the OSI conference on Frontiers in Optics and Photonics (FOP11), held at IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India.
2011.
- Holographic and Laser Speckle methods in Non-Destructive Testing
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A.R. Ganesan.
Proc. of NDE 2009, National conference on NDE, Trichy, India.
2009.
- How significant are Optical Aberrations in Young Adulthood, Proc.of the XVIII International Congress of Eye Research
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A.R. Ganesan, M. Jesson.
Proc.of the XVIII International Congress of Eye Research, held at Beijing, China.
2008.
- Wavefront Estimation and Compensation for Adaptive Optics applications
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A.R. Ganesan.
Proc. of NCOL-2007, National Conference on Recent Trends in optoelectronics and Laser Technology, Trivandrum, 9-11 April, 2007.
2007.
- Wavefront Estimation and Compensation for Adaptive Optics applications
1.
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A.R. Ganesan.
Proc. of NCOL-2007, National Conference on Recent Trends in optoelectronics and Laser Technology.
2007.
- Analysis of Refractive Errors in the eyes of Young Indians
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M. Jesson and A.R. Ganesan.
Journal of Modern Optics 54 7-9, 1349-59 (2007).
2007.
- Laser Beam Steering Control System for free-space line of sight
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A.R. Ganesan, P. Arulmozhivarman, D. Mohan and A.K. Gupta.
Optical Communication IETE Journal of Research 52, 6 417-424 (2006).
2006.
- Are Optical Aberrations in Normal Young Adulthood Significant?
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M. Jesson and A.R. Ganesan.
Proc. of ICBPE 2006, International Conf. On Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engg., held at Singapore, 11-14 Dec. (2006).
2006.
- Measurement of moments for Centroid estimation in Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor – a Wavelet based approach and comparison with other methods
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P. Arulmozhivarman, L. Praveen Kumar and A.R. Ganesan
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Optik, Intl. J. of Laser & Electro-Optics 11, 82-87 (2006).
2006.
- Optical Fiber Interferometric Sensor for the measurement of Liquid Pressure and Concentration
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G. Gobi, P. Arulmozhivarman, D. Sastikumar, A.R. Ganesan and M.J.M. Jaffar.
Accepted for presentation at the National Laser Symposium (NLS-4) to be held at Mumbai, India, Jan.10-13 (2005).
2005.
- Effect of illumination beam divergence in DSPI fringe formation
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N. Sujatha, V.M. Murukeshan and A.R. Ganesan.
J. of Holography and Speckle2, 1 20-25 (2005).
2005.
- A Spot Pattern Test Chart Technique for Measurement of Geometric Aberrations caused by an intervening medium – a Novel Method
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A.R. Ganesan, P. Arulmozhivarman and M. Jesson.
J. of Meas. Sci. & Technol. 16 , 2534-40 (2005)..
2005.
- Design and Development of a Closed Loop Adaptive Optics system for Wavefront Sensing and Control
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A.R. Ganesan, P. Arulmozhivarman, D. Mohan, Ashok Kumar and A.K. Gupta.
J. of Optics 34,2 67-81 (2005).
2005.
- Wavelet based measurement of Moments in Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor
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Praveen Kumar, P. Arulmozhivarman and A.R. Ganesan
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J. of Instrum. Soc. India 35, 172-178 (2005).
2005.
- Spot Pattern Test Chart Technique for Measurement of Geometric Aberrations caused by an Intervening Medium – a novel method
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A.R.Ganesan,P.Arulmozhivarman and M.Jesson.
J. of Measurement Science and Technology 16, 2534-2540 (2005).
2005.
- Analysis of Refractive Errors in the Human Eye using Shack-.
Hartmann Aberrometry
M. Jesson, P. Arulmozhivarman and A.R. Ganesan
.
Proc. of Photonics-2004, VII International Conf. on Optoelectronics, Fiber Optics and Photonics, Dec.9-11, Cochin, India, pp.23 (2004).
2004.
- Non-Destructive Testing Composite Specimens by Fiber Optic Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry
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A.R. Ganesan and V.M.Murukeshan.
J. of Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation 3,3 59-64 (2004).
2004.
- Effect of in-plane sensitive component on speckle fringe formation on curved inner surfaces of engineering specimens
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V.M. Murukeshan, N. Sujatha and A.R. Ganesan.
J. of Holography and Speckle 1,2 74-79 (2004).
2004.
- Higher Order Aberrations of the Human eye in Indian Young Population
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M. Jesson, P. Arulmozhivarman and A.R. Ganesan
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Asian Journal of Ophthalmology 6, 1 10-16 (2004 ).
2004.
- Atmospheric Turbulence studies using Twyman-Green Interferometer
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P.Arulmozhivarman, N.Manivannan and A.R.Ganesan.
J. of the Instrument Soc. of India 32 ,1 59-65 (2002).
2002.
Teaching
- 2017 : (Jan - May) - PH5250 Advanced Electronics; (Jul - Nov) - PH5110 Optics & Photonics
- 2018 : (Jan - May) - PH5250 Advanced Electronics & Lab; (Jul - Nov) - EP2100 Introduction to Engineering Optics
- 2019 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II/ PH5221 Summer Project/ PH5400 Comprehensive Viva Voce II / PH5400 Viva Voce; (Jul - Nov) - EP3290 Engg Physics Lab III/ PH5040 Electronics/
- 2020 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II/ PH5223 Project/ PH5400+ Comprehensive Viva Voce; (Jul - Nov) - EP3290 Engg Physics Lab III/ PH5110 Optics & Photonics
- 2021 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II; (Jul - Nov) - EP3290 Engg Physics Lab III/ PH5110 Optics & Photonics
- 2022 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II ; (Jul - Nov) - EP2090 Engineering Physics Lab I / PH2050 Physics Lab III / PH5110 Optics & Photonics
- 2023 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II