Biography

Dr. Mukul Chandra Paul received the Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2003. Presently he is working as chief scientist at fiber optics and photonics division , central glass and ceramic research institute, Kolkata, India. He has authored over 250 scientific publications, 10 book chapters and holding seven US patents on fabrication of rare-earth doped ?bers. He also edited 2 Books on Fiber Laser. He also made major scientific contributions through International collaborative research work with various countries such as Malaysia, China, Taiwan, UK, France, Russia, Vietnam, Portugal etc. He is a member of OSA, IEEE and life member of MRSI and Indian Ceramic Society. 4 Ph.D. and 7 M.Sc. research works were directed by him. His current research interests include various material composition based specialty optical fiber development for continuous wave and pulsed fiber lasers at ~1 and 1.5 microns, high power optical amplifiers, fiber based saturable absorber, Broad-band supercontinuum sources