ALOK SHARAN Professor

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  • Department of Physics
  • School of Physical, Chemical & Applied Sciences
  • aloksharan@gmail.com

Academic Activity

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Educational Qualification (UG,PG & Higher Order)

S.No Degree Subject/Title of thesis University/Board Year of Passing
1 PhD Nonlinear Optical Interactions in Dye Doped Solids IIT Kanpur 2000
2 M Sc Physics-Astrophysics / Surface Photometry of Galaxies University of Poona 1990
3 B Sc Physics -Electronic Instrumentation University of Bombay 1988

Area of Specializaion

Experimental Nonlliear Optics, Computational Electromagnetics

Awards / Prizes Conferred

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Teaching Experience

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1 Lecturer Physics BITS Pilani
2 Assistant Professor Physics Pondicherry University
3 Associate Professor Physics Pondicherry University

Research Experience

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1 Project Scientist Physics IIT kanpur Nonlinear Optics
2 Visiting Fellow Atomic Molecular Physics TIFR Nonlinear Optics
3 Post Doctoral Fellow Materials Research Institute Pennslyvania State University,USA Nonlinear Optics
4 Lecturer Physics BITS Pilani Nonlinear Optics
5 Assistant Professor Physics Pondicherry University Nonlinear Optics

Industry Experience

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Contribution towards Innovation

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Papers Published in UGC Approved Journals

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1 Broad white light supercontinuum generation in Barium Zinc Borate glasses M.M. Neethish aJitendra Nath Acharyya P Prem Kiran, G. Vijaya Prakash, Alok Sharan, V.V. Ravi Kanth Kumar Journal of Luminescence 251,119190 2022 4.171
2 Modified HSE06 functional applied to anatase TiO2: influence of exchange fraction on the quasiparticle electronic structure and optical response Sruthil Lal S B, Murali D ,Matthias Posselt , Assa Aravindh, Sasikala Devi and Alok Sharan Electronic Structure 4 045001 2022 2.629
3 Study of a bi-axial (KTP) crystal using double Stokes–Mueller polarimetry Chitra Shaji, Sruthil Lal S B and Alok Sharan Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials 26 (03), 2350023 2022 0.977
4 Biogenic Silver Nanoparticles Decorated with Methylene Blue Potentiated the Photodynamic Inactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aur Paramanantham Parasurama, Thamanna R. Y Chitra Shaji, Alok Sharan, Ali H. Bahkali , Helal F. Al-Harthi , Asad Syed , V.T. Anju, Madhu Dyavaiah and Busi Siddhardha Pharmaceutics 12 No 8,709 2020 6.51
5 Malachite green-conjugated multi-walled carbon nanotubes potentiate antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation of planktonic cells and biofilms of Pseudo VT Anju Parasuraman Paramanantham Busi Siddhardha SB Sruthil Lal Alok Sharan Abdullah A Alyousef Mohammed Arshad, Asad Syed International Journal of Nano-medicine 14, 3861-384 2019 4.471
6 Antimicrobial photodynamic activity of toluidine blue-carbon nanotube conjugate against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus - Understandi Anju V T, Parasuraman Paramanantham, Sruthil Lal S B, Alok Sharan, Asad Syed, Needa A Bahkali, Marzouq H Alsaedi, Kaviyarasu K, Siddhardha Busi Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy 27, 305-316 2019 3.631
7 Antimicrobial photodynamic activity of toluidine blue encapsulated in mesoporous silica nanoparticles against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcu Paramanantham Parasuraman, Asha P. Antony, Sruthil Lal S. B, Alok Sharan, Busi Siddhardha, Kaviyarasu Kasinathan, Needa A. Bahkali, Turki M. S. Dawoud & Asad Syed Biofouling 35 No1, 89-103 2019 3.333
8 Synthesis and antimicrobial photodynamic effect of methylene blue conjugated carbon nanotubes on E. coli and S. aureus Paramanantham Parasuraman, V. T Anju, SB Sruthil Lal, Alok Sharan, Siddhardha Busi, K. Kaviyarasu, Mohammed Arshad, Turki M. S. Dawoud and Asad Syed Photochemical & Photo-biological Sciences 18, 563-576 2019 2.902
9 Antimicrobial photodynamic activity of rose bengal conjugated multi walled carbon nanotubes against planktonic cells and biofilm of Escherichia coli Anju VT, Parasuraman Paramanantham, Sruthil Lal SB, Alok Sharan, Marzouq H. Alsaedi, Turki M.S. Dawoud, Syed Asad, Siddhardha Busi Photodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy 24, 300-310 2018 3.361
10 10Be/9Be ratios of Cauvery river delta sediments, southern India: implications for paleo-denudation rates in the catchment and variation in summer mon aternary Soumya Prakash Dhal, S. Balakrishnan, Pankaj Kumar, Pramod Singh, Alok Sharan and Sundeep Chopra CURRENT SCIENCE 115 (9), 1770 2018 1.102
11 Femtosecond laser pulse assisted photoporation for drug delivery in Chronic myelogenous leukemia cells Hemanth Naick Banavath, Srinivasa Rao Allam, Stell Sravanthi Valathati, Alok Sharan, Baskaran Rajasekaran Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 187, 35-40 2018 6.252
12 Femtosecond laser pulse assisted photoporation for drug delivery in Chronic myelogenous leukemia cells Hemanth Naick Banavath, Srinivasa Rao Allam, Stell Sravanthi Valathati, Alok Sharan, Baskaran Rajasekaran Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 187, 35-40 2018 6.252
13 Design of narrow band multi-channel optical lters using zero index medium N. P. Ausha and Alok Sharan International Journal of Modern Physics B 32 (15), 1850188 2018 1.404
14 Generalized Stokes vector for three photon process Chitra Shaji, Raseena Ismail, S. V. M. Satyanarayana and Alok Sharan Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials 26 (03), 1750040 2017 0.977
15 One, two and three photon absorption of two level system in femto-second laser excitation Srinivasa Rao Allam, Alok Sharan J ournal of Optics 46(4):486–491 2017 0.895
16 FDTDModelling of 1DPhotonic Crystal for Thermal Masking Application with CPML Absorbing Boundary Condition M. Ashok Kumar, N.P. Anusha, and Alok Sharan Defence Science Journal 67 (2), 224-229 2017 0.707
17 Understanding the effect of bound excitons on two photon absorption process in anatase TiO2 nanospheres using ultrafast pulses Giridhar Chakravarthy∗, Srinivasa Rao Allam and Alok Sharan, Oriparambil Sivaraman Nirmal Ghosh‡, Sethuraman Gayathri, and Annamraju Kasi Viswanath, M. N. Prabhakar and Jung-Il Song Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials 25 (02), 1650019 2016 0.977
18 Third order optical nonlinear studies and its use to estimate thickness of sandwiched films of tetra-phenyl porphyrin derivatives A. Srinivasa Rao, Mudasir H. Dar, N. Venkatramaiah, R. Venkatesan and Alok Sharan Journal of Nonlinear Optica and Materials 25 (03), 1650039 2016 0.977

Papers Published in Non UGC Approved Peer Reviewed Journals

S.No Title Name of the Authors as per the order in Paper Journal Name Volume, Issue & Page Nos. Year Impact Factor
1 Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy on Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli using malachite green encapsulated mesoporous silica nanoparticles: a Parasuraman Paramanantham, Busi Siddhardha, Sruthil Lal SB, Alok Sharan, Abdullah A. Alyousef, Mohammed Saeed Al Dosary, Mohammed Arshad, Asad Syed PeerJ 7,e7454 2019 3.061
2 Antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation of fungal biofilm using amino functionalized mesoporus silica-rose bengal nanoconjugate against Candida albica Parasuraman Paramanantham, Asha P Antony, S.B. Sruthil Lal, Alok Sharan, Asad Syed, Mukhtar Ahmed , AbdullahA. Alarf, Siddhardha Busi, M. Maaza, K. Kaviyarasu Scientific African(Elsevier) 7, e00007 2018 2.4 Cite score

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Books

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Ongoing Projects

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Career Guidance Offered to students

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List of capability enhancement such as Soft skill development, Remedial coaching, Language lab,
Bridge courses, Yoga, Meditation, Personal Counselling and Mentoring etc.,

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Research Guidance - PG

S.No Year Degree No. of Students Awarded Department/Centre
1 2022 M.SC 6 Physics
2 2020 M.SC 4 Physics
3 2019 M.SC 3 Physics
4 2018 M.SC 1 Physics
5 2017 M.SC 2 Physics
6 2016 M.SC 2 Physics
7 2015 M.SC 3 Physics
8 2015 M.SC 1 Astro-physics
9 2014 M.SC 1 Physics
10 2013 M.SC 5 Physics
11 2012 M.SC 3 Physics
12 2012 M.PHIL 2 Physics
13 2011 M.SC 4 Physics
14 2010 M.SC 5 Physics
15 2009 M.PHIL 1 Physics
16 2008 M.SC 3 Physics
17 2008 M.PHIL 1 Physics
18 2007 M.PHIL 1 Physics
19 2007 M.SC 3 Physics

Research Guidance - Ph.D

S.No Student Name Registration Date Registration No. Thesis Title Thesis Submitted Status Thesis Submitted Date Vivavoce Completed Status Date Awarded
1 Anusha N P 05.09.2012 R30876 Numerical Study of Influence of Geometrical structures in Double Negative (DNG) medium on its Optical properties YES 21-06-2019 YES 26-08-2021
2 M Ashok Kumar 25-08-2010 R23964 Optical Studies in Periodic Band-gap Structures and Nonliinear medium YES 31-07-2019 YES 04-11-2020
3 Giridhar Chakravarthy 27.08.2010 R23965 Study of Optical Nonlinearity in Anatase TiO2 YES 09-05-2018 YES 06-05-2019
4 Chitra Shaji 19-09-2011 R27559 Stokes-Mueller polarimetry in one, two, three photon process YES 27-06-2018 YES 05-03-2019
5 Allam Srinivasa Rao 19-09-2011 R27640 Optical Nonlinearities in Saturable Media YES 01.07.2016 YES 23-11-2018
6 Abhijit Hazra 09-12-2021 2100122001 TD-DFT Studies on origin of Optical Nonlinearities NO NO
7 Abhijit Hazra 09-12-2021 2100122001 TD-DFT Studies on origin of Optical Nonlinearities NO NO
8 V R Vengedaragavan 18-02-2021 2000122012 Micro-manipulation of particles using Optical Tweezers NO NO
9 Agape Mary Mammen 19-08-2019 1900122007 Nonlinear Optical Studies in PBG Structures of Si-Sio_2-TiO_2 NO NO
10 Athira A 23-7-2018 1800122001 Nonlinear Optical Studies in Graphene oxide (Just Joined - Yet to be finalized) NO NO
11 Sruthil Lal S B 25-08-2016 20161122006 Probing the Origin of Optical Non-linearities in Anatase TiO2 Using Zscan and DFT Studies NO NO
12 Soumya P Dhal 24-12-2009 R21330 Measurement of Cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al using Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) and its applications in Geology and Archeology YES 21-12-2015 YES 07.02.2017

Research Guidance - Post Doctoral

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E-Lecture Details

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Invited Talks in Conference/Seminar/Workshop/Training Programme

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Conferences/Seminars Organized

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Workshop Organized

S.No Title of the Programme Sponsors Venue & Duration Whether International / National / State / Regional / College or University Level From To Year
1 Children’s Conclave Program at Indian Biodiversity Congress 2017 CISSA,Pondichery University, Govt of Pudicherry Pondicherry University,1days National 12-09-2017 12-09-2017 2017
2 37thNational Symposium of Optical Society of India Symposium DST,Pondicherry University Pondicherry University,3days National 23-01-2013 25-01-2013 2013
3 27th National Symposium on Plasma Science and technology (Plasma 2012) IPR Ahmedabad, Plasma Society, Pondicherry University Pondicherry University,4 days National 10-12-2012 13-12-2012 2012
4 Workshop on Quantum Entanglement DST,Pondicherry University,UGC-SAP Pondicherry University,3days National 17-02-2010 19-02-2010 2010

Administrative Responsibilities in the Government and Quasi Government Agencies

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Affiliation in Academic Bodies/Societies

S.No Name of the Body/Society Nature of Affiliation Year
1 Indian Laser Association Lifemember 2019
2 Optical Society of India Lifemember 2019
3 Indian Association of Physics Teachers Lifemember 2019

Participation & Extension Activities (Academic/Administraion)

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1 Chief Warden Boys Hosel 17th Dec 2020 onwards Administration of All Boys Hostel

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