Dr. Soumendu Jana

Professor

Specialization

Nonlinear Dynamics, Nonlinear Optics, Soliton Theory

Email

soumendu.jana@thapar.edu

Specialization

Nonlinear Dynamics, Nonlinear Optics, Soliton Theory

Email

soumendu.jana@thapar.edu

Biography:

Dr. Soumendu Jana is an Associate Professor at School of Physics and Materials Science, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He finished his Ph.D. in 2008 from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (BIT). He worked with the CNQO group at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, during his BOYSCAST postdoctoral fellowship tenure. Dr Jana’s research interest includes nonlinear optics, photonics and nonlinear dynamics and Laser. He is a Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellow.

Research Projects:

1. Moving And Colliding Cavity Solitons and Cavity Soliton Molecules, Funded by UGC-BSR, 2012-2014.

2. All-Optical Cryptography Using Localization and Dynamics of Photon in Semiconductor Microresonators, Funded by SERB, 2020-2023

3. Remote Diagnosis and Health Monitoring Using Smart Phone Based VCSEL with an Embedded 2D Material, Funded by CEEMS, TIET-VT, 2021-2024.

4. Generation and Dynamics of Cavity Soliton For Optical Information Technology Devices, Funded by MeitY, 2018-2020.

 

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

OPTICA (formarly Optical Society of America)

 

Publications 

Journal Publications (SCI/SCIE)

  1. A. Saini and Soumendu Jana, "Exploring cavity soliton trapping with egg-carton potentials," Journal of the Optical Society of America B 43(3), 529–540 (2026).
  2. G. Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "Spatial frequency comb generation in a microresonator using various saturable absorbers: a comparative study," Journal of the Optical Society of America B 42(11), B27–B35 (2025).
  3. G. Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "Tunable optical frequency comb in a microresonator using amplitude and frequency modulation," Journal of Optics 54(5), 2895–2903 (2025).
  4. B. Singh, D. Yadav, M. Sharma, M. Mishra, and Soumendu Jana, "Optical solitons in nematic liquid crystals: dynamics, stability and modulation instabilities," The European Physical Journal Plus 140(7), 625 (2025).
  5. N. Sharma, M. Mishra, and Soumendu Jana, "Generation, dynamics, and stability analysis of diffraction managed soliton in patterned metamaterial," Journal of Optics (2024).
  6. M. Mishra, S. K. Kajala, Shwetanshumala, M. Sharma, and Soumendu Jana, "Asymmetric impact of higher-order diffraction on narrow beam dynamics in nonlocal nonlinear media," Applied Physics B 129, 194 (2023).
  7. A. Saini and Soumendu Jana, "Modulation instability in a microresonator with graphene saturable absorber, frequency selective feedback and external potential," Physica Scripta 98(12), 125228 (2023).
  8. M. Sharma, S. K. Kajala, M. Mishra, B. Singh, and Soumendu Jana, "A novel algorithm to determine the input energy for soliton generation in a media with a patterned property," Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 126, 107513 (2023).
  9. M. Mishra, K. Meena, D. Yadav, B. Singh, and Soumendu Jana, "The dynamics, stability and modulation instability of Gaussian beams in nonlocal nonlinear media," The European Physical Journal B 96(8), 109 (2023).
  10. S. Bhatia, A. Goyal, Soumendu Jana, and C. N. Kumar, "Stationary hypergeometric solitons and their stability in a Bose–Einstein condensate with PT-symmetric potential," Physics Letters A 469, 128751 (2023).
  11. Jaspreet Kaur Nagi and Soumendu Jana, "Why is a cavity soliton-based microscope still far from reality?," Journal of the Optical Society of America B 39, 3140–3148 (2022).
  12. Manoj Mishra, Sandeep Kumar Kajala, Mohit Sharma, Swapan Konar, and Soumendu Jana, "Energy optimization of diffraction managed accessible solitons," Journal of the Optical Society of America B 39, 2804–2812 (2022).
  13. Jaspreet Kaur Nagi and Soumendu Jana, "Broadband cavity soliton with graphene saturable absorber," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 158, 111983 (2022).
  14. Manoj Mishra, Sandeep Kumar Kajala, Mohit Sharma, Swapan Konar, and Soumendu Jana, "Generation, dynamics and bifurcation of high power soliton beams in cubic-quintic nonlocal nonlinear media," Journal of Optics 24, 055504 (2022).
  15. Neeraj Sharma and Soumendu Jana, "Making a meta-surface soliton-ready," Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A 77, 841–849 (2022).
  16. Manoj Mishra, Vishakha Takhar, and Soumendu Jana, "Directional Coupler based on Metal-Insulator-Metal plasmonic Waveguide," Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials 24, 15–20 (2022).
  17. Jaspreet Kaur Nagi and Soumendu Jana, "New operating regimes of cavity solitons by virtue of a graphene flake saturable absorber," Physical Review E 104, 024209 (2021).
  18. Neeraj Sharma and Soumendu Jana, "Dissipative soliton dynamics and switching in split ring resonator based metamaterial with multi-photon absorption and diffusion," Physics Letters A 398, 127261 (2021).
  19. G. S. Parmar, B. A. Malomed, and Soumendu Jana, "Interplay of multiphoton absorption, Raman scattering, and third-order dispersion in soliton fiber lasers," Journal of the Optical Society of America B 38, 342–352 (2021).
  20. Manoj Mishra, Puja Jhajharia, and Soumendu Jana, "Power exchange dynamics for performance optimization in a miniature plasmonic waveguide coupler," Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials 15, 5–6 (2021).
  21. R. Pradhan, A. Choudhary, S. K. Samanta, L. Mishra, Soumendu Jana, and P. K. Datta, "Modeling of all-optical modulation format conversion from amplitude-shift keying to phase-shift keying using a vertical cavity quantum wells absorber," Journal of the Optical Society of America B 37, 3754–3762 (2020).
  22. R. Pradhan, A. Choudhary, S. K. Samanta, Soumendu Jana, and P. K. Datta, "Phase-bistability and phase-locking patterns with cavity soliton in vertical-cavity-based fast semiconductor saturable absorber," Optik 204, 164194 (2020).
  23. G. S. Parmar, R. Pradhan, B. A. Malomed, and Soumendu Jana, "Dispersion-managed soliton fiber laser with random dispersion, multiphoton absorption and gain dispersion," Journal of Optics 20, 105501 (2018).
  24. Baldeep Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "Cavity soliton molecules and all-optical push-broom effect," Journal of Lightwave Technology 36, 2463–2470 (2018).
  25. Baldeep Kaur, Anu Mittal, Soumendu Jana, S. S. Mallick, and Peter Wypych, "Stability and phase space analysis of fluidized-dense phase pneumatic transport system," Powder Technology 330, 190–200 (2018).
  26. Baldeep Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "Generation and dynamics of one- and two-dimensional cavity solitons in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with a saturable absorber and frequency-selective feedback," Journal of the Optical Society of America B 34, 1374–1385 (2017).
  27. G. S. Parmar, Soumendu Jana, and B. A. Malomed, "Dissipative soliton fiber lasers with higher-order nonlinearity, multiphoton absorption and emission, and random dispersion," Journal of the Optical Society of America B 34, 850–860 (2017).
  28. B. Kaur, A. Mittal, P. Wypych, S. S. Mallick, and Soumendu Jana, "On developing improved modelling and scale-up procedures for pneumatic conveying of fine powders," Powder Technology 305, 270–278 (2017).
  29. Anu Mittal, Baldeep Kaur, Soumya S. Mallick, Renhu Pan, and Soumendu Jana, "Numerical simulation of fluidized dense-phase pneumatic conveying of powders towards developing improved model for solids friction factor," Particuology 35, 42–50 (2017).
  30. Kadam Bhambri, Gurkirpal Singh, Neena Gupta, Debabrata Deb, and Soumendu Jana, "Dispersion managed dissipative solitons with higher-order nonlinearity and frequency-selective feedback," Optical and Quantum Electronics 49, 376 (2017).
  31. Soumendu Jana, Shivani, G. S. Parmar, Baldeep Kaur, Qin Zhou, Anjan Biswas, and Milivoj Belić, "Evolution of bell-shaped dissipative optical solitons from super-Gaussian pulse in parabolic law medium with bandwidth limited amplification," Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials – Rapid Communications 10, 143–150 (2016).
  32. Baldeep Kaur, Soumendu Jana, Qin Zhou, Anjan Biswas, and Milivoj Belić, "Bright and exotic solitons in laser cavity with frequency selective feedback," Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials 18, 428–434 (2016).
  33. Baldeep Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "A generic travelling wave solution in dissipative laser cavity," Pramana 87, 53 (2016).
  34. G. S. Parmar and Soumendu Jana, "Bistable dissipative soliton in cubic-quintic nonlinear medium with multiphoton absorption and gain dispersion," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications 29, 1410–1429 (2015).
  35. Soumendu Jana, Ajitpal Singh, K. Porsezian, and T. Mithun, "Self-trapped elliptical super-Gaussian beam in cubic–quintic media," Optics Communications 332, 311–320 (2014).
  36. Soumendu Jana and S. Konar, "Far-field spectral behaviour and spectral switching of super Gaussian pulses," Optics Communications 281, 1197–1202 (2008).
  37. Soumendu Jana, S. Konar, and Manoj Mishra, "Soliton switching in fiber coupler with periodically modulated dispersion, coupling constant dispersion and cubic–quintic nonlinearity," Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A 63, 145–151 (2008).
  38. Soumendu Jana and S. Konar, "A new family of Thirring type optical spatial solitons via electromagnetically induced transparency," Physics Letters A 362, 435–438 (2007).
  39. S. Konar, M. Mishra, and Soumendu Jana, "Nonlinear evolution of cosh-Gaussian laser beams and generation of flat-top spatial solitons in cubic–quintic nonlinear media," Physics Letters A 362, 505–510 (2007).
  40. S. Konar, Soumendu Jana, and Shwetanshumala, "Incoherently coupled screening photovoltaic spatial solitons in biased photovoltaic photorefractive crystals," Optics Communications 273, 324–333 (2007).
  41. S. Konar, Soumendu Jana, and Woo-Pyo Hong, "Two-component spatial holographic solitons supported by cross-phase modulation," Physica Scripta 76, 470–474 (2007).
  42. Soumendu Jana and S. Konar, "Tunable spectral switching in the far field with a chirped cosh-Gaussian pulse," Optics Communications 267, 24–31 (2006).
  43. S. Konar, Manoj Mishra, and Soumendu Jana, "The effect of quintic nonlinearity on the propagation characteristics of dispersion-managed optical solitons," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 29, 823–828 (2006).
  44. Shwetanshumala, Soumendu Jana, and S. Konar, "Propagation of a mixture of modes of a laser beam in a medium with saturable nonlinearity," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications 20, 2193–2205 (2006).
  45. S. Konar, Soumendu Jana, and Manoj Mishra, "Induced focusing and all-optical switching in cubic–quintic nonlinear media," Optics Communications 255, 114–129 (2005).
  46. S. Konar, Manoj Mishra, and Soumendu Jana, "Dispersion-managed optical solitons with higher-order nonlinearity," Fiber and Integrated Optics 24, 537–548 (2005).
  47. S. Konar and Soumendu Jana, "Nonlinear propagation of a mixture of TEM00 and TEM01 modes of a laser beam in a cubic–quintic medium," Physica Scripta 71, 198–203 (2005).
  48. Soumendu Jana and S. Konar, "Induced focusing of two laser beams in cubic–quintic nonlinear media," Physica Scripta 70, 354–359 (2004).
  49. S. Konar and Soumendu Jana, "Linear and nonlinear propagation of sinh-Gaussian pulses in dispersive media possessing Kerr nonlinearity," Optics Communications 236, 7–20 (2004).
  50. Soumendu Jana and S. Konar, "Stable and quasistable spatiotemporal solitons in cubic–quintic nonlinear media," Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials 13, 25–36 (2004).

Scopus Indexed /Conference Publications / Proceedings

  1. A. Saini and Soumendu Jana, "Stabilizing 2D Cavity Soliton with External Potential in Nonlinear Microresonator," Nonlinear Optics, W4A.1 (2025).
  2. D. Yadav, B. Singh, M. Sharma, M. Mishra, and Soumendu Jana, "Stability Analysis of Gaussian Beam in Nonlocal Nonlinear Media," International Conference on Emerging Trends in Complex Systems (2025).
  3. Soumendu Jana, M. S. B. Singh, and M. Mishra, "Energy Optimization of Highly Nonlocal Soliton via Diffraction Management," Technologies for Energy, Agriculture, and Healthcare, pp. 585–592 (2025).
  4. M. Mishra and Soumendu Jana, "Diffraction-Managed Soliton in Patterned Media," Advances in Photonics Integrated Circuits, LASER and Applications (2025).
  5. M. Mishra, D. Yadav, B. Singh, M. Sharma, and Soumendu Jana, "Modulation Instability of Ultra-Narrow Gaussian Beams in Nonlocal Nonlinear Media with Higher Order Diffraction," Laser Science, JD4A.13 (2024).
  6. D. Yadav, B. Singh, Soumendu Jana, M. Sharma, and M. Mishra, "All-Optical Shifting of a Narrow Gaussian Beam by Third-Order Diffraction in Nonlocal Nonlinear Media," Frontiers in Optics, JD4A.10 (2024).
  7. D. Yadav, M. Mishra, B. Singh, and Soumendu Jana, "Impact of Response Function on Modulation Instability of Nonlocal Optical Soliton," Quantum 2.0, QW3A.50 (2024).
  8. K. Halder, M. Mishra, Shwetanshumala, Soumendu Jana, and S. Konar, "Soliton Collision Dynamics in Multiple Coupled Quantum Well Structure," Quantum 2.0, QW3A.49 (2024).
  9. N. Sharma and Soumendu Jana, "Soliton Dynamics in Metamaterial with Higher Order Nonlinear Phenomena," International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications, pp. 645–653 (2024).
  10. K. Halder, M. Mishra, Shwetanshumala, Soumendu Jana, and S. Konar, "Dynamics of Optical Soliton in MCQW under Influence of Giant Higher Order Nonlinearities," Frontiers in Optics, JM7A.58 (2023).
  11. N. Sharma, Soumendu Jana, and M. Mishra, "Diffraction Managed Soliton in Metamaterial," (2023).
  12. M. Mishra and Soumendu Jana, "Accessible Soliton Breathers in Diffraction-Managed Media," International Conference on Photonics, pp. 1–9 (2023).
  13. Soumendu Jana, M. Sharma, B. Singh, and M. Mishra, "Identifying Stable Zones for Propagation of Optical Solitons in Cubic-Quintic Nonlocal Nonlinear Media," Quantum 2.0, QTh2A.15 (2023).
  14. A. Saini and Soumendu Jana, "Soliton Trapping with External Potential," Frontiers in Optics, JTu4B.30 (2022).
  15. M. Mishra, S. K. Kajala, M. Sharma, B. Singh, and Soumendu Jana, "Stabilizing the Optical Beam in Higher-Order Nonlocal Nonlinear Media," Laser Science, JTu5A.42 (2022).
  16. G. Kaur, M. Mishra, R. Pradhan, and Soumendu Jana, "Optimizing the Optical Frequency Comb," Laser Science, JTu4B.18 (2022).
  17. Soumendu Jana, M. Sharma, B. Singh, S. K. Kajala, and M. Mishra, "Interaction Dynamics of Accessible Solitons in Highly Nonlocal Cubic-Quintic Nonlinear Media," Laser Science, JTu5A.21 (2022).
  18. M. Mishra, A. Kumar, B. Singh, Soumendu Jana, and M. Sharma, "Ultra-Short Pulse Evolution in Highly Nonlinear Medium at Communication Regime," Frontiers in Optics, JW4B.30 (2022).
  19. G. S. Parmar and Soumendu Jana, "Generation and Dynamics of Optical Dissipative Soliton," (2018).
  20. B. Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "Optical Cavity Soliton and its Dynamics," (2017).
  21. H. Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "Soliton Force Microscopy Using Cavity Soliton," (2017).
  22. Y. B. Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "Cavity Soliton in VCSEL Using Graphene as Saturable Absorber," (2017).
  23. V. Monga and Soumendu Jana, "Formation of Cavity Soliton Using Standing Wave Method," (2017).
  24. G. S. Parmar and Soumendu Jana, "Generation and Interaction of Dispersion-Managed Dissipative Soliton in Optical Fiber with Multiphoton Absorption and Higher Order Nonlinearity," International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, Tu4A.66 (2016).
  25. B. Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "Cavity Soliton Dynamics in VCSEL," International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, Tu4A.40 (2016).
  26. B. Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "Homonuclear Cavity Soliton Molecules and All-Optical Push-Broom," International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, Tu4A.39 (2016).
  27. A. Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "All Optical Sensors Using Spectral Switching," (2016).
  28. Soumendu Jana, "All Optical Switching in Non Linear Medium," (2016).
  29. G. S. Parmar and Soumendu Jana, "Dissipative Soliton in Optical Fiber with Multiphoton Absorption and Random Dispersion," Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), pp. 1–4 (2015).
  30. B. Kaur and Soumendu Jana, "Generation of Stable Cavity Soliton in Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser: A Variational Approach," Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), pp. 1–3 (2015).
  31. N. Kour and Soumendu Jana, "Generation and Dynamics of Dissipative Optical Cavity Soliton," (2015).
  32. Soumendu Jana, "Generation and Dynamics of Cosh-Gaussian Cavity Solitons in VCSEL," Seventh International Conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications & Fifth International Conference (2015).
  33. G. S. Parmar and Soumendu Jana, "Pulse Propagation in Cubic-Quintic Nonlinear Medium under the Influence of Gain Dispersion, Two-Photon Absorption and Three-Photon Absorption," International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, S5A.38 (2014).
  34. D. Kalyan and Soumendu Jana, "Modelling and Solving Cancer Equation," (2014).
  35. A. Singh and Soumendu Jana, "Nonlinear Propagation of Elliptical Super Gaussian Beam," (2013).
  36. Soumendu Jana, "The Nonlinear Dynamics of Cosh-Super Gaussian Pulse in Cubic Quintic Nonlinear Medium," (2013).
  37. K. Priya and Soumendu Jana, "Spatio-Temporal Soliton Dynamics in Inhomogeneous Nonlinear Media," (2013).
  38. M. Kalra and Soumendu Jana, "Anomalous Spectral Behaviour and Tunable Spectral Switching with Cosh Super Gaussian Pulse," (2012).
  39. D. Singla and Soumendu Jana, "Spectral Anomalies and Spectral Switching with Aperture-Lattice," (2012).
  40. Soumendu Jana, S. Konar, and M. Mishra, "Hamiltonian Dynamics of Optical Pulses in Ultra High Bit Rate Dispersion Managed Communication Systems," (2003).
  41. Soumendu Jana and S. Konar, "Spatiotemporal Solitons in Parabolic Nonlinear Media," National Laser Symposium Proceedings, pp. 403 (2003).
  42. Soumendu Jana, S. Konar, and others, "SSI Parabolic," National Laser Symposium Proceedings, pp. 403 (2003).
  1. Soumendu Jana , Cavity solitons in VCSEL: a single pane solution of optical information technology, CSI Transactions on ICT, 7(2), 111-115 ( 2019).

Awards and Honours:

BOYSCAST Fellowship

Visvesvaraya Fellowship

Description of Research Interests

Soliton, Photonics, Nonlinear optics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Optical information technology

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