The Department of Physics conducts research that caters to local and national needs, like Laser Physics and Instrumentation. Think laser light displays in commercial buildings or curing eye or tooth problems, not lofty applications like space based missile busters or infantry ray guns.

In addition, the Department also conducts research on complex systems which covers a wide range of interdisciplinary fields ranging from Biology to Econophysics. Small-sale research (on consultancy basis) on areas like Acoustics and Theoretical Solid State Physics, particularly in Superconductivity, are also being conducted by the Department.

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Laser Physics

The main activities in this area include cooling and trapping of atoms, interferometry and photo-acoustic spectroscopy. Research on cooling and trapping has a rather fundamental character; interferometry is more education-oriented; and photo-acoustic spectroscopy is used to trace small concentrations of gases with biological and agricultural applications and in monitoring environmental pollution.

The Laser Physics laboratory has acquired new equipment, such as lasers, power supplies, detectors and optical components necessary to facilitate research.

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Instrumentation/Medical Physics

Artificial Neural Networks, Computer Vision ad Digital Signal Processing have so far been the main research components of this area. These methods are applied in stereoscopic length measurements, speech recognition, motion sensing, active noise control and the study of chaos.

In the near future, the research will focus on applications of minute particles with many applications in medical physics as well as fluid dynamics.