Prof. Mukul Chandra Paul
Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, India
Dr. Mukul Chandra Paul obtained his PhD degree in Fiber Optics from the Jadavpur University
in 2003. At present he is working as principal scientist at the Fiber Optics and Photonics
Division, CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Jadavpur, Kolkata-32 (INDIA) . His
research work deeply focused on the design of material composition of the doping host of metal
nano-particles along with rare-earths through different material and optical characterization
tools for development of various type of specialty optical fibers based on MCVD with solution
doping technique which use as a heart of fiber optic based devices such as fiber laser,
optical amplifier , broad-band optical source and sensor to improve their respective optical
performances. At present he is involved for development of high power optical amplifier for
CATV and free space communication system , Rrare-earths doped multicore fiber as well as very
narrow line width based DFB fiber laser for Hydrophone and LIDAR through participation of
some prominent industrial partners in the area of photonics. Recently focused another
important area about the development of suitable optical fiber which will be used as fiber based
saturable absorber for mode-locked and Q-switching fiber laser at 1550nm. He received a
number of prestigious awards / recognitions including young scientist award under UK-India
networking research programme (2003), BOYSCAST Fellowship from the department of
Science and Technology (2005), CSIR Technology Award (2012), DST-UKIERI Award (2013),
CSIR Technology Award for Innovation (2015), Indo-Russian (RFBR) Collaborative Research
Grant-2016, Indo-Portugal (FCT) Collaborative Research Grant-2017 etc. He is a OSA senior
member along with membership of American Ceramic Society (ACS), IEEE and life member of
Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) and Indian Ceramic Society (ICS). He is an
editorial board member of new journal of glass and ceramics (NJGC), International journal of
advanced nanomaterials, International journal of materials science research and journal of
materials science and engineering progress. He has published more than 200 papers in
peer-reviewed journals and Conferences. He also published 7 Book chapters and edited two
books on Fiber Laser. He holds 7 US patents and filed 4 Indian patents. He is involved to several
collaborative projects with different countries such as UK, Russia, Portugal, Mexico, Malaysia,
etc.