Name C.Vijayan (Ph.D., IIT Madras, 1987) Designation Professor Group optics and Lasers Phone +91-44-2257 4877 Room HSB 225 Research Interests Optical Processes and Materials such as semiconductor Quantum dots (nanostructures),Porphyrins and dyes Email cvijayan at physics.iitm.ac.in Personal Home Page http://www.physics.iitm.ac.in/~cvijayan

Recent Publications

• Role of transfer of coherence in the enhanced absorption Hanle effect with two optical fields
  Nibedita Ram, J Anupriya, M Pattabiraman and C. Vijayan
  J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 42, 175504 (2009)
  
  
• Generation of Ag Nanoparticles by PAMAM Dendrimers and their Size Dependence on the Aggregation Behavior of Dendrimers
  Manniledam Kavitha , Manas R. Parida, Edamana Prasad , C. Vijayan , P. C. Deshmukh
  Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 210 (16), 1310-1318,(2009)
  
  
• Spatial phase filtering based on the intensity-dependent refractive index of PbS nanocomposite film
  Pushpa Ann Kurian and C. Vijayan
  Applied Optics Vol. 48, Iss. 28, pp. 5259-5265 (2009)
  
  
• Saturable and reverse saturable absorption and nonlinear refraction in nanoclustered Amido Black dye-polymer films under low power continuous wave He-Ne laser light excitation
  G Sreekumar, P G Louie Frobel1, C I Muneera, K Sathiyamoorthy, C. Vijayan and Chandrachur Mukherjee
  J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 11 (2009) 125204-125015
  
  
• Nonlinear optical response of silica-encapsulated chloroaluminium phthalo-cyanine core-shell particles
  K. Sathiyamoorthy, C. Vijayan and Shikha Varma
  Langmuir, 24, 7485-91 (2008)
  
  
• Nonlinear refraction and absorption phenomena in a novel nanocomposite based on a dye stabilized in a solid hybrid matrix
  K. Sathiyamoorthy and C. Vijayan
  Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112(37), 14336–14342 (2008)
  
  
• Low power optical limiting in ClAl-Phthalocyanine due to self defocusing and self phase modulation effects
  K. Sathiyamoorthy, C. Vijayan and M. P. Kothiyal
  Optical Materials 31(1) 79-86 (2008)
  
  
• Photoacoustic spectroscopy of Ni+-implanted quartz
  Binita Ghosh, Purushottam Chakraborty, P. Kumar, D. Kanjilal, C. Vijayan
  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 266 (8) 1229-1234 (2008)
  
  
• Saturable absorption in gold implanted fused silica
  Binita Ghosh, Purushottam Chakraborty, B. Sundaravel, C. Vijayan
  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 266(8), 1356-1361 (2008)
  
  
• Optical properties of zinc oxide nanocrystals embedded in mesoporous silica
  T.S. Vaishnavi, Prathap Haridoss, C. Vijayan
  Materials Letters, 62, 1649-1651 (2008)
  
  
• Excitonic transitions and off-resonant optical limiting in CdS quantum dots stabilized in a synthetic glue matrix
  Pushpa Kurian , K Sathiyamoorthy, C. Vijayan, Suchand Sandeep, Reji Philip
  Nanoscale Research Letters, 2, 561 (2007)
  
  
• Two-photon-assisted excited state absorption in nanocomposite films of PbS stabilized in a synthetic glue matrix
  Pushpa Ann Kurian, C. Vijayan, C. S. Suchand Sandeep, Reji Philip and K. Sathiyamoorthy
  Nanotechnology 18, 075708 (2007)
  
  
• The influence of parameters of chemical synthesis on the optical properties of CdS nanocrystals
  K. Suresh Babu, C. Vijayan and Prathap Haridoss
  Materials Research Bulletin, 42, 1251-1261(2007)
  
  
• Properties of size-tuned PbS nanocrystals stabilized in a polymer template
  K. Suresh Babu, C. Vijayan and Prathap Haridoss
  Materials Research Bulletin, 42, 996-1003 (2007)
  
  
• Effect of PbS nanocrystal concentration on the physical properties of a polymer nanocrystal composite
  K. Suresh Babu, C. Vijayan and Prathap Haridoss
  Materials Science and Engineering: C, 27, 922-927, (2007)
  
  
• Nonlinear refraction and optical limiting in solid films of amido black dye under CW laser illumination
  G. Sree Kumar, B. Valsala Milka, C.I. Muneera, K. Sathiyamoorthy and C. Vijayan
  Optical Materials, 30, 311-313, (2007).
  
  
• Photoacoustic investigations on self-organization effects in metalloporphyrins on glass substrate
  K. Sathiyamoorthy and C. Vijayan
  Materials Letters, 61, 4156-4159(2007)
  
  
• Simple technique for obtaining photoacoustic spectra corrected for the spectral variation of the source in single scan
  K Sathiyamoorthy, C. Vijayan, MP Kothiyal
  Review of Scientific Instruments, 78, 043102 (2007)
  
  
• Design of a low power optical limiter based on a new nanocomposite material incorporating silica-encapsulated phthalocyanine in Nafion
  K Sathiyamoorthy, C. Vijayan, MP Kothiyal
  Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 40 6121–6128 (2007)
  
  
• Low Field Zeeman Magnetometry Using Rubidium Absorption Spectroscopy
  Nibedita Ram, M Pattabiraman, C. Vijayan
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series 80 , 012035 (2007)
  
  
• Nonlinear refraction and optical limiting in solid films of amido black dye under CW laser illumination
  G. Sree Kumar, B. Valsala Milka, C.I. Muneera, K. Sathiyamoorthy and C. Vijayan
  Optical Materials 30(2), 311-313 (2007)
  
  
• Sampling rules in the frequency domain for numerical propagation of ultra short pulses through linear dielectrics
  S. P. Veetil, C. Vijayan, D. K. Sharma, H. Schimmel, F. Wyrowski
  JOSA B, 23,. 2227-2236 (2006)
  [Also in October 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science]
  
  
• Wave optical modelling of focusing of an ultra short pulse
  S. P. Veetil, H. Schimmel, F. Wyrowski, C. Vijayan
  J. of Mod. Optics , 53, 2187-2194 (2006)
  
  
• Diffraction induced space-time splitting effects in ultra-short pulse propagation
  S. P. Veetil, C. Vijayan, D. K. Sharma, H. Schimmel, F. Wyrowski
  J. of Mod. Optics , 53, 1819-1828 (2006)
  
  
• Spectral and temporal evolutions of ultra short pulses diffracted through a slit near phase singularities
  S. P. Veetil, N. K. Viswanathan, C. Vijayan, F. Wyrowski
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 041119 (2006)
  
  
• Synthesis of size-tunable and stable CdS nanocrystals in DMF
  K. Suresh Babu, C. Vijayan, Prathap Haridoss
  Materials Letters 60 124-128 (2006)
  
  
• Contrast reversal and enhancement of phase spot array/grid with an intensity-dependent refractive index medium as phase filter
  Kaladevi Sendhil, C. Vijayan and M.P. Kothiyal
  Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 44 (2), 122-129 (2006)
  
  
• Low threshold optical power limiting of cw laser illumination based on nonlinear refraction in zinc tetraphenyl porphyrin
  Kaladevi Sendhil, C. Vijayan and M.P. Kothiyal
  Optics & Laser Technology, 38, (7), 512-515 (2006)