PhD, Fellow IoP (FInstP), Fellow IET (FIET), Chartered Engineer (CEng), Senior Member IEEE, Senior Member OSA
Senior Lecturer
- Email Address
- k.nakkeeran@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272817
- Office Address
369 Fraser Noble Building
School of Engineering
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
- School/Department
- School of Engineering
Biography
PostDoc
- Hong Kong (01/2002 - 02/2005) - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- France (11/1999 - 12/2001) - University of Bourgogne
- India (01/1999 - 10/1998) - The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
PhD (1995-1998) - Nonlinear Fibre Optics - Anna University, India
MTech (1993-1995) - Laser & Electro Optical Engineering - Anna University, India
BEng (1989-1993) - Electronics & Communication Engineering - CIT, Bharathiar university, India
External Memberships
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Institute of Physics (IoP) - Fellow IoP (FInstP)
- Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) - Fellow IET (FIET)
- Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Senior Member IEEE (SMIEEE)
- Senior Member of Optica (formally Optical Society of America OSA) - Senior Member Optica (SMOptica)
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) - IET
Research Overview
- Optical fibre sensors
- Modelling & simulations of soft robotics
- Optical fibre communications
- Solitons in nonlinear fiber optics
- Optical pulse compression
- Fibre lasers
- Supercontinuum generation
- Design of photonic crystal fibres
- Dispersion-managed solitons
- Modelling of semiconductor lasers
- Integrability aspects of nonlinear partial differential equations
Funding and Grants
Santander Mobility Awards 2018
Title: Multimode Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystal Fibres
Amount: £ 980 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 6 months (Jun '18 – Dec '18)The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 152173/17E (co-PI)
Title: Multimode Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystal Fibers
Amount: HK$ 495,846
Period of award: 3 years (Jan '18 – Dec '20)The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 152144/15E (co-PI)
Title: Generation of Few-Cycle Pulses in Fiber Lasers by Using Passive Similaritons in Anomalous Dispersion Fibers
Amount: HK$ 696,029
Period of award: 3 years (Jan '16 – Dec '18)The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 5263/13E (co-PI)
Title: Frequency Domain Mode-Locked Lasers
Amount: HK$605,300
Period of award: 3 years (Jan '14 – Dec '16)UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) Exchange Project (co-PI)
Title: Development of Optical Fibre based devices for Sensing Applications
Amount: £30,010 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of project: 2 years (July '13 - June '15)Northern Research Partnership PhD Studentship Project (co-PI)
Title: Development of non-invasive blood glucose monitoring system
Amount: £31,000 (PhD Studentship)
Period of project: 3 years (Dec '12 - Nov '15)Hydro-Aluminium Consultancy Project (PI)
Title: Non-destructive techniques for identification and quantification of elemental changes in extruded aluminium
Amount: £11,800 (consultancy)
Period of project: 15 March – 30 June 2011The Royal Society Short Visit (UK-Japan) (PI)
Title: Optical Pulse Compression Using Chirped Solitons
Amount: £2,580 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of visit: 2 weeks in Jan '10The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 5289/07E (co-PI)
Title: Design and Analysis of a Novel Non-uniform Fiber Bragg Grating Pulse Compressor
Amount: HK$462,000
Period of award: 2 years (Jan '08 – Dec '09)The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project HKU 7118/07E (co-PI)
Title: The NLS models with novel nonlinearities: their applications in capillarity and optics
Amount: HK$497,750
Period of award: 2 years (Jan '08 – Dec '09)The Royal Society International Joint Project Grants Programme (UK-Brazil) (PI)
Title: Design and Simulation of Terrestrial Dispersion-Managed Optical Fibre Systems
Amount: £12,000 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 3 years (Nov '07 – Oct '10)Scottish Funding Council (co-PI)
Title: Innovation Instrumentation Technologies for 21st Century Oil and Gas Industries in Scotland
Amount: £57,299
Period of award: 6 months (Jan '07 – June '07)The Nuffield Foundation Newly Appointed Lecturer Award (PI)
Title: Design and simulation of DM optical fibre transmission systems
Amount: £5000 (Computer, Software, Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 2 years (May '06 – Apr '08)The Libyan Cultural Affairs studentship & project (PI)
Title: Analytical design of WDM-DM optical fibre transmission systems
Amount: £2650 (Computer, Software & Subsistence) + PhD studentship
Period of award: 3 years (May '06 – Apr '09)The Royal Society of Edinburgh International Exchange Programme (PI)
Title: Optical fibre communications
Amount: £800 (Travel)
Period of visit: 27 Mar '06 – 07 Apr '06The Royal Society International Joint Project Grants Programme (UK-HK) (PI)
Title: Dynamics of optical pulses in averaged, dispersion-managed fibres
Amount: £6,000 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 2 years (Oct '05 – Sep '07)The Sixth Century Studentship (University of Aberdeen) (PI)
Title: Transmission performance improvement of DM fibre systems using NOLM
Amount: PhD studentship
Period of Award: 3 years (Dec '05 – Nov '08)Teaching Responsibilities
Lectures: C/C++ Programming (MEng/BEng)
Electronics Design (MEng/BEng)
Optical Systems & Sensing (MEng)
Laboratories: Electrical & Electronics Circuits (MEng/BEng)
C/C++ Programming (MEng/BEng)
Supervision: PhD study
MEng/BEng Honours degree projects
MSc projects
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Dispersion-managed all polarization-maintaining 2 μm mode-locked fiber laser with nonreciprocal phase bias
Feng, N., Yuan, Z., Tang, H., Zhou, R., Nakkeeran, K., Ji, E.Optics and Laser Technology, vol. 183, 112340Contributions to Journals: ArticlesProgressive pulse dynamics in a mode-locked fiber laser
Feng, N., Zhou, R., Wang, S., Zhang, R., Nakkeeran, K.Optics and Laser Technology, vol. 168, 109827Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOn the spectral sidebands’ evolution of mode-locked fiber lasers
Wang, S., Zhou, R., Duan, Z., Hu, G., Yuan, S., Li, L., Nakkeeran, K.Optical Fiber Technology, vol. 80, 103479Contributions to Journals: ArticlesColor and Texture Analysis of Textiles Using Image Acquisition and Spectral Analysis in Calibrated Sphere Imaging System-II
Rout, N., Hu, J., Baciu, G., Pattanaik, P., Nakkeeran, K., Khandual, A.Electronics (Switzerland), vol. 12, no. 9, 2135Contributions to Journals: ArticlesColor and Texture Analysis of Textiles Using Image Acquisition and Spectral Analysis in Calibrated Sphere Imaging System-I
Rout, N., Baciu, G., Pattanaik, P., Nakkeeran, K., Khandual, A.Electronics (Switzerland), vol. 11, no. 23, 3887Contributions to Journals: Articles2 μm soliton lasers in a bidirectional nonlinear polarization evolution Tm3+-doped fiber oscillator
Feng, N., Hu, H., Zhou, R., Ji, E., Liu, X., Gu, H., Nakkeeran, K.Results in Physics, vol. 41, 105930Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSupercontinuum comb generated by soliton molecule pulse laser injecting into a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror
Zhou, R., Chen, S., Li, Q., Fu, H. Y., Nakkeeran, K.Optics and Laser Technology, vol. 150, 107884Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSelf-starting switchable multifunctional solitons fiber laser
Zhou, R., Hu, H., Guo, B., Li, Q., Fu, H. Y., Nakkeeran, K.Advanced Photonics Research, vol. 3, no. 5, 2100348Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEckhaus Instability in Laser Cavities with Harmonically Swept Filters
Li, F., Huang, D., Nakkeeran, K., Kutz, J. N., Yuan, J., Wai, P. K. A.IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 39, no. 20, pp. 6531 - 6538Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStatistical Modelling of Photonic Crystal Fibre based Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors Resonant Peak Wavelength for Tolerance Studies
Osifeso, S., Chu, S., Nakkeeran, K.Sensors, vol. 21, no. 19, 6603Contributions to Journals: Articles