IITKGP

Shivakiran B N Bhaktha

Associate Professor

Physics

+91-3222-283802

kiranbhaktha@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

Vacancies available for Post-docs |

Research Areas

  • Random Lasers
  • Optofluidics
  • Photonic Crystals
  • Microresonators
  • Glass and glass-ceramics
'Photonic Systems Laboratory'
We work in the area of ORDERED and DISORDERED Photonics. Periodic and random structures are fabricated and studied in our lab to understand the behaviour of light in these systems, and also for the development of photonic devices. 
Some of our primary research interests include:
- Random Lasers
- Photonic Crystals
- Plasmonics
- Glass Photonics
- Glass Ceramics
- Optofluidics
- Micro-resonators
- Nonlinear Optics
- Photonic Devices and Sensors
  • Anomalous Lasing Behavior in a Nonlinear Plasmonic Random Laser by Yadav R., Pal S. , Jana S. , Ray S. K., Brundavanam M. M., N S. B. ACS Photonics 12 717- (2025)
  • Optofluidic random laser by Shivakiran Bhaktha B.N., Nicolas Bachelard, Xavier Noblin, Patrick Sebbah Appl. Phys. Lett. 101 - (2012)
  • Random laser spectroscopy and replica symmetry breaking phase transitions in a solvent-rich polymer thin film waveguide by Choubey P.S., Sarkar A., Varshney S.K., Bhaktha S.B.N. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics 37 2505-2513 (2020)
  • Purcell enhanced laser action using a super-Tamm cavity mode by Maria Lis S S., Pandit S. , Patra S. , H. Lone F. , Singh N. , Banerjee D. , V. Nair R. , N S. B. Optics Letters 50 1869- (2025)
  • Replica Symmetry Breaking in a Weakly Scattering Optofluidic Random Laser by Sarkar A., Bhaktha B.N.S., Andreasen J. Scientific Reports 10 - (2020)
  • Effect of Laser Irradiation on Graphene Oxide Integrated TE-Pass Waveguide Polarizer by Ghosh S., Mandal D. , Chandra A. , Bhaktha Bn S. Journal of Lightwave Technology 37 2380-2385 (2019)
  • Spatio-spectral Mapping of a Microbottle Laser by Dutta S., N S. B. Optical Materials 159 116450- (2025)
  • Effect of Photonic Stop-band on the Modes of a Weakly Scattering DCM-PVA Waveguide Random Laser by Sarkar A., Ojha N. , Bhaktha Bn S. Appl. Phys. Lett. 110 251104- (2017)
  • Signatures of periodicity and randomness in the angular emission profile of a 2-D on-average periodic optofluidic random laser by Anirban Sarkar, Shivakiran Bhaktha B. N. Optics Letters 40 - (2015)
  • Mono- to few-layered graphene oxide embedded randomness assisted microcavity amplified spontaneous emission source by Pratyusha Das, Rishi Maiti, Prahalad K. Barman, Samit K. Ray and Shivakiran Bhaktha B.N. Nanotechnology 27 - (2016)

Principal Investigator

  • Development of Portable Photonic Crystal Bloch Surface Wave Sensors for the Detection of Dithiocarbamate Pesticides in Agri-Food Systems Department of Science and Technology (DST)
  • Investigating the Potential of Cavity Optomechanics in Microwave Oscillation and Frequency Comb Generation Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences (STARS), Ministry of Education (MoE)

Ph. D. Students

Biplab Dhara

Area of Research: Optics and Photonics

Biplab Mahapatra

Area of Research: Optics and Photonics

Ladli Patra

Area of Research: Nanophotonics

Monica Pradhan

Area of Research: Experimental photonics

Pradip Kumar Patra

Area of Research: Nanophotonic agri-food sensors

Rina Mudi

Area of Research: Photonic Crystal

Somnath Pandit

Area of Research: Photonic Sensors

Subhajit Dutta

Area of Research: Photonics

Susovan Giri

Area of Research: Complex Photonics

Veeraghattam Bhargavi

Area of Research: sensing

Vijay Kumar

Area of Research: Quantum Computing