DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Ganesan, AR

Professor

MSB 331
Ph.D. IIT Madras

📞 044 - 2257 4891
✉️ arg@iitm.ac.in

Areas of Interest

✔ Optical metrology and instrumentation

✔ Holography, Laser speckles and Interferometry

✔ Adaptive Optics, Vision Science, Free space optical communication

✔ Fiber Optic sensors

Current Research

Students

Current PhD Students

✔ PH20D022 LAXMAN MANDAL

✔ PH20D032 JASPAL SINGH

Recent Publications

  • Sensing performance optimization by refining the temperature and humidity of clad engraved optical fiber sensor in glucose solution concentration. B. Renganathan, Subha Krishna Rao, Manjunath S. Kamath, A. Deepak and A.R. Ganesan. Measurement. 207. 112341. DOI: . 2023.
  • Michelson Interferometer with mirrored right-angled prism for measurement of tilt with double sensitivity. Laxman Mandal, Jaspal Singh, A R Ganesan. Journal of Optics. DOI: . 2023.
  • Modified Cyclic Interferometer for measurement of nanoradian tilt with multifold sensitivity. Laxman Mandal, Jaspal Singh, A R Ganesan. Optics Communications. 546. 129815. DOI: . 2023.
  • Magnetic, Dielectric and Ethanol Gas Sensing Properties of Poly(o?phenylenediamine)/(MnNi)Fe2O4 Nanocomposites and Quantum Chemical Calculations of (MnNi)Fe2O4. Nagarajan Kannapiran, Athianna Muthusamy, B. Renganathan, A. R. Ganesan, S. Savithiri and Sher Singh Meena. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials. 32. 2173-2191 . DOI: . 2022.
  • A novel interferometric method for simultaneous measurement of film thickness and film interface temperature for a horizontal tube falling film evaporator for MED systems. Akhil Krishnan Maliackal, A. R. Ganesan, A. Mani. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 183 Part C. 122231. DOI: . 2022.
  • Heat transfer enhanced surfaces for horizontal tube falling film evaporator characterized using laser interferometry. Akhil Krishnan Maliackal, A. R. Ganesan, A. Mani. Applied Thermal Engineering. 210. 118303. DOI: . 2022.
  • Shack Hartman Wavefront Sensor with Enhanced Dynamic Range and Reference Free Operation. Pretheesh Kumar Valiyaparambil Chacko and Angarai Ganesan. Optical Engineering. 61. 054108. DOI: . 2022.
  • Investigation of the room temperature gas-detecting potential of CeO2-doped ZnO at different ratios using clad-modified fiber optic gas sensor. B. Renganathan, Subha Krishna Rao, A. R. Ganesan, A. Deepak, and Nagarajan Kannapiran. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron. 33. 23974–23985. DOI: . 2022.
  • Investigating the gas sensing potential in CeO2 Fiber Optic Sensor via trivalent Gadolinium ion substitution at room temperature. B. Renganathan, Subha Krishna Rao, A.R. Ganesan, A. Deepak. Materials Letters. 325. 132766. DOI: . 2022.
  • Performance evaluation of Ce doped ZnO clad modified fiber optic non-enzymatic glucose sensor at varying ambient temperatures for blood sugar detection applications. B. Renganathan, Subha Krishna Rao, Manjunath S. Kamath, K. Ajitha, A.R. Ganesan, A. Deepak. Microchemical Journal. 183. 107890. DOI: . 2022.

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