Prof Ajoy K. Kar

Professor

Ajoy Kar has 20 years of experience in studies of the nonlinear optical properties of materials and their applications. Ajoy hails from Shillong in Meghalaya (India) which is known as the Scotland of the East. After completing his MSc in Delhi he joined the University of Essex where he developed his interest in Lasers and Nonlinear Optics. He started at Heriot-Watt as a postdoc and at present he is a Professor in the department of Physics. His current projects involve large gain EDWAs, ultrafast all-optical switching in novel chalcogenide glasses, ultrafast optical nonlinearities in II-VI semiconductors, generation and propagation of white light continuum through atmosphere for novel LIDAR applications. The projects are of both fundamental and applied in nature.