Aashia Rahman

Dr. Aashia Rahman received her PhD from Indian Institute of Science in 2009, for which she was awarded the Dr. Srinivasa Rao Krishnamurthy Gold Medal, M.E degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2004, for which she was awarded the UGC fellowship and the University Gold Medal and a B.Tech (Honors., Silver Medal) degree from Vidyasagar University in Instrumentation Engineering in 2002. After completion of M.E degree, she has worked in Haldia Institute of Technology as a Lecturer in the Department of Instrumentation Engineering for more than a year. She is also the recipient of the prestigious Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Heraklion, Greece, which was followed by another postdoctoral fellowship in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2010 to 2011.

Areas of Research:

• Optical Fiber Sensors.
• Fiber Bragg gratings and material characteristics.
• Plasmonics in Fiber optics.
• Metamaterials and negative refractive index.

Education:

• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, (August 2005 to December 2009).
• M. E., Jadavpur University, (August 2002 to July 2004).
• B. Tech (Honors)., Vidyasagar University, (August 1998 to July 2002) .

Work Experience:

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
• Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Hellas-FORTH, Crete, Greece
• Lecturer (January 2004 to August 2005) Haldia Institute of Technolgy, India.

Selected Publications/Patents:

1. Michele Sozzi, Aashia Rahman, Stavros Pissadakis,Non-monotonous refractive index changes recorded in a phosphate glass optical ?bre using 248nm, 500fs laser radiation,Opt. Mater. Express, 1, pp.121 to 127, 2011.

2. Michele Sozzi, Aashia Rahman, Stavros Pissadakis,Demonstration of negative refractive index photosensitivity mechanism in a phosphate glass optical fibre using 248nm, 500fs laser radiation, CLEO, Europe,2011.

3. Aashia Rahman and S. Asokan, Fiber Bragg Grating sensors: New Ideas on Strain and Temperature Discrimination , International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems, 3(1), March 2010.

4. Aashia Rahman, K.V.Madhav, B.Srinivasan, S.Asokan,Strain-Temperature discrimination using a single fiber Bragg grating, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 22(11), pp.778-780, June 1, 2010.

5. Aashia Rahman, K.V.Madhav, U.Ramamurty, S.Asokan,Nanoindentation study on germania-doped silica glass preforms: evidence for the compaction-densification model of photosensitivity, Optics Letters, 34(16), pp.2414-2416, August, 2009.

6. Aashia Rahman and S. Asokan, Simultaneous Measurement of Strain and Temperature using Type I and Pre-strained Fiber Bragg Gratings , IEEE Sensors, pp. 1229 to 1231, 2009.

7. Aashia Rahman, K.V.Madhav, B.Srinivasan, S.Asokan,Anomalous thermal dynamics of Bragg grating inscribed in germano-silicate optical fiber, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3(1), pp.17-23, January 2009.

Patents

U.S. Patent Application No.13/376,542 new and simple method for simultaneous strain and temperature discrimination using fiber Bragg gratings in cross-wire configuration. Assignees: Dr. Aashia Rahman, Dr. Kalaga Venu Madhav, Dr. Balaji Srinivasan, Dr. Sundarrajan Asokan. (Filed December 06, 2011) .