PhD, Fellow IoP (FInstP), Fellow IET (FIET), Chartered Engineer (CEng), Senior Member IEEE, Senior Member OSA
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- 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
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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
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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
- Publications
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Designing a Biosensor Using a Photonic Quasi-Crystal Fiber with Fan-shaped Analyte Channel
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsTheoretical and computational advances in nonlinear dynamical systems
Advances in Mathematical Physics, vol. 2017, 3925964Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/3925964
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A Comparative Study on Designing Efficient Pulse Compressors and Pulse Stretchers Using Tapered Photonic Crystal Fibers
Recent Trends in Materials Science and Applications: Nanomaterials, Crystal Growth, Thin films, Quantum Dots, & Spectroscopy (Proceedings ICRTMSA 2016). Ebenezar, J. (ed.). Springer, pp. 119-134, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44890-9_12
Generation of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses Using A Photonic Quasi-crystal Fiber
Recent Trends in Materials Science and Applications: Nanomaterials, Crystal Growth, Thin films, Quantum Dots, & Spectroscopy (Proceedings ICRTMSA 2016). Ebenezar, J. (ed.). Springer, pp. 153-158, 6 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSupercontinuum Generation in a Silicon Nanowire Embedded Photonic Crystal Fiber for Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
Recent Trends in Materials Science and Applications: Nanomaterials, Crystal Growth, Thin films, Quantum Dots, & Spectroscopy (Proceedings ICRTMSA 2016). Ebenezar, J. (ed.). Springer, pp. 71-88, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44890-9_8
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/10428/1/OCT_Newformet.pdf
Tapering photonic crystal fibers for generating self-similar ultrashort pulses at 1550 nm
Optical Engineering, vol. 55, no. 6, 067108Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.6.067108
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/6171/1/OE_160203_online.pdf
Generation of a train of ultrashort pulses using periodic waves in tapered photonic crystal fibres
Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 63, no. 21, pp. 2246-2258Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2016.1193638
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8813/1/JMO02032016.pdf
Designing a biosensor using a stampli photonic quasi - crystal fiber
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2316/P.2016.838-003
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Design of a photonic quasi-crystal fiber for the generation of few cycle laser pulses
Infrared physics & technology, vol. 68, pp. 69-74Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2014.11.002
Characteristics of femtosecond pulse in silicon nanowire embedded photonic crystal fiber: Variational approach
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Enhanced efficiency of second harmonic generation with twelve-fold photonic quasi-crystal fiber in telecommunication band
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Few-cycle pulse generation using solid-core photonic quasi-crystal fiber
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Supercontinuum generation in a silicon nanowire embedded photonic crystal fiber
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Transmission properties of THz silicon photonic crystal fiber
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Ultrashort pulse generation in tapered photonic crystal fiber at 400nm
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Ultrashort pulse train generation using nonlinear optical fibers with exponentially decreasing dispersion
Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 31, no. 8, pp. 1786-1792Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.31.001786
An analytical approach to integral resonant control of second-order systems
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 651-659Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2013.2253115
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3154/1/TMech_MAMNS.pdf
Waveguiding properties of a silicon nanowire embedded photonic crystal fiber
Optical materials, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 958-964Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2013.12.048
Design of an efficient and a compact optical pulse compressor using a tapered photonic crystal fiber
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Designing a 10-fold Photonic Quasi-Crystal Fiber for Enhancing the Efficiency of Second Harmonic Generation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAEE.2014.6838465
Large Dispersion and High Nonlinearity in Silicon Nanowire Embedded Photonic Crystal Fiber
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSilicon nanowire embedded spiral photonic crystal fiber for soliton-effect pulse compression
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.938.316
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Six-Fold Photonic Quasicrystal Fiber for Generating Few cycle Laser Pulses
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAEE.2014.6838467
Supercontinuum Generation in Silicon Nanowire Embedded Photonic Crystal Fibers with Different Core Geometries
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2069497
Supercontinuum generation at 1.55 μm in a silicon nanowire embedded photonic crystal fiber
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