New Delhi, India  |  August 11–12, 2026

Dr.Shyamal Mondal is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Physics, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, India. His broad research areas include high-power ultrafast fiber and solid-state laser oscillators and amplifiers, plasmonic photoconductive antennas, high-electric-field THz generation and detection, and nonlinear frequency-mixing processes. Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant Professor at SRM Institute of Science and Technology,Kattankulathur, India, for three years. At Accelerator Science and Technology Centre,STFC Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom, as a Rutherford International Fellow, he worked on the experimental optimization of high-field multi-cycle terahertz pulses for the application of appropriate structures, including terahertz waveguides, terahertz photonic structures and resonant cavities. In his first postdoctoral study at IPE, Czech Republic, he developed different ultrafast, high-power mode-locked fiber lasers and their amplifier systems with different ytterbium, erbium, thulium, and chalcogenide fibers to produce broadband near-infrared and mid-infrared frequency sources by frequency mixing processes. He completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2015 with a specialization in 'Ultrafast Lasers and Nonlinear Optics'. He published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles, three book chapters and one patent. He has completed 02 sponsored projects, and 02 more are ongoing.  He is a life member of OSI, ILA, and an advisor of DIAT OPTICA Student Chapter.