Awards:
1. Incubic Milton Chang Travel Grant worth USD 500 from the Optical Society of America in 2015.
2. Gold Medalist in M. Sc. (Physics) from Lucknow University in 2013.
3. CSIR Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)/ National Eligibility Test (NET) in June 2012.
Extracurricular Activities:
1. Member of the organizing committee for the OSA student conference IONS-Asia 6 held at IIT Kharagpur in 2014.
2. Worked as the treasurer of the OSA student chapter of IIT Kharagpur from May 2015 to June 2017
3. Attended the conferences FiO/LS-2015 (San Jose, USA) and 2016 (Rochester, USA), MPLP-2016 (Novosibirsk, Russia), Photonics-2014 (IIT Kharagpur, India) and 2016 (IIT Kanpur, India), ICOL-2014 (IRDE Dehradun, India).
Journal Publications:
1. P. Mondal, V. Mishra, and S. K. Varshney, “Nonlinear interactions in multimode optical fibers,” Opt. Fiber Technol. 54: p. 102041 (2020). (Invited paper)
2. R. Haldar, A. Roy, P. Mondal, V. Mishra, and S. K. Varshney, “Free-carrier-driven Kerr frequency comb in optical microcavities: steady-state, bistability, self-pulsation, and modulation instability,” Phys. Rev. A 99: p. 033848 (2019).
3. V. Mishra and S. K. Varshney, “Interplay between Raman self-frequency-shift and cross-phase modulation interaction in vector-soliton of a birefringent fiber,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(7): pp. 1806-1815 (2019).
4. P. Mondal, R. Haldar, V. Mishra, and S. K. Varshney, “All-optical mode conversion and temperature sensing via transient grating in step-index fiber,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 30(24): pp. 2175-2178 (2018).
5. P. Mondal, N. Bhatia, V. Mishra, R. Haldar, and S. K. Varshney, “Cascaded Raman and intermodal four-wave mixing in conventional non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber for versatile ultra-broadband continuum generation,” J. Lightwave Technol. 36(12): pp. 2351-2357 (2018).
6. V. Mishra, R. Haldar, P. Mondal, and S. K. Varshney, “Efficient all-optical transistor action in short-length multimode optical fibers,” J. Lightwave Technol. 36(13): pp. 2582-2588 (2018).
7. V. Mishra, S. P. Singh, R. Haldar, P. Mondal, and S. K. Varshney, “Intermodal nonlinear effects mediated optical event horizon in short-length multimode fiber,” Phys. Rev. A 96: p. 013807 (2017).
8. V. Mishra, S. P. Singh, R. Haldar, and S. K. Varshney, “Sub-wavelength dual capillaries-assisted chalcogenide optical fibers: unusual modal properties in mid-IR (2–5 μm) spectral range,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 22(2): pp. 208-213 (2016).
9. S. P. Singh, V. Mishra, and S. K. Varshney, “Mid-IR multipeak and stepwise blue-shifted dispersive wave generation in liquid-filled chalcogenide capillary optical fibers,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 33(11): pp. D65-D71 (2016).
10. E. A. Zlobina, V. Mishra, S. I. Kablukov, S. P. Singh, S. K. Varshney, and S. A. Babin, “Specifics of short-wavelength generation in a continuous wave fiber optical parametric oscillator,” Las. Phys. Lett. 13(11): p. 115106 (2016).
11. R. Haldar, V. Mishra, A. Dutt, and S. K. Varshney, “On-chip broadband ultra-compact optical couplers and polarization splitters based on off-centered and non-symmetric slotted Si-wire waveguides,” J. Opt. 18(10): p. 105801 (2016).
12. S. P. Singh, V. Mishra, P. K. Datta, and S. K. Varshney, “Dispersion engineered capillary-assisted chalcogenide optical fiber-based mid-IR parametric sources,” J. Lightwave Technol. 33(1): pp. 55-61 (2015).
13. S. P. Singh, V. Mishra, and S. K. Varshney, “Continuous-wave pumped, tunable mid-infrared fiber-optic parametric sources,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 31(11): pp. 2786-2791 (2014).