Anurag Sharma (physicist)
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May 7, 1955 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Residence | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
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| Known for | Studies on optoelectronics and optical communications |
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Anurag Sharma (born 1955) is an Indian physicist and a professor at the Department of Physics of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is known for his pioneering researches on optoelectronics and optical communications and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences,Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India as well as Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1998.
Anurag Sharma, born on 7 May 1955, did his higher studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD) from where he gained master's degrees in science (MSc) and engineering (MTech) and joined the institute as a member of faculty in 1978, simultaneously pursuing doctoral studies there under the guidance of Ajoy Ghatak. After securing a PhD a year later, he continued his service at IITD but had two sabbaticals; at Technical University of Karlsruhe as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow during 1982–83 for his post-doctoral work and a short stint as a visiting scientist at CSELT, Turin in 1988. At IITD, has served as the Dean of Students (2006-2009) and Dean of Academics (2012-2016) and has been holding the position of a professor at the department of physics since 1995. He is known to have done pioneering research in optoelectronics and optical communications and is credited with the development of analytical and numerical methods for dielectric optical wave guides, single-mode fibers, Graded-Index (GRIN) devices and optical imaging system. He developed a protocol for tracing GRIN media for use in imaging systems as well as for characterizing inhomogeneous media and continues his researches on electromagnetic wave propagation in dielectric media. He has documented his researches in several articles;ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles, has listed 58 of them. Besides, he has edited four books viz. Guided Wave Optics: Selected Topics,Understanding Fiber Optics on a PC,International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics: Selected Papers from Photonics India '98 (Proceedings of SPIE),Photonics 2010: Tenth International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics (Proceedings of SPIE). and Frontiers in Optics and Photonics 2011.
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