This book presents select proceedings of the 16th edition of International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, PHOTONICS – 2024. The proceedings present latest research in almost all areas of photonics including, fiber & guided wave photonics, lasers & nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, plasmonics & metamaterials, quantum photonics, quantum information and processing, optical communication and networks, bio-photonics, photonics materials & devices, topological photonics, microwave & terahertz photonics, optical sensing and imaging. The book can be a valuable reference for researchers as well as students in the broad field of photonics and optics.

Sarang Pendharker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Prior to joining IIT Kharagpur, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta, Canada. He obtained both his M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. Dr. Pendharker is an active reviewer for several reputed international journals in the areas of photonics and microwaves and currently serves as a member of the Peer Review Advisory Panel of the Journal of Optics (Institute of Physics, UK). His broad research interests lie in electromagnetic wave–matter interaction and microwave photonics. His current research focuses on understanding electromagnetic wave propagation and interaction in gyrotropic media, spanning both classical and quantum regimes, as well as investigating seamless microwave–photonic links.

Maruthi Manoj Brundavanam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His research interests encompass optical interferometry, singular optics, and correlation optics. His research group is actively engaged in the generation and applications of scalar and vector vortex beams, as well as in the development of speckle-based imaging techniques. In addition, his group works extensively on the design, fabrication, and applications of geometric phase holograms, and on linear and nonlinear light–matter interactions using structured light fields, including scalar and vector vortex beams. Dr. Brundavanam is an active reviewer for several leading international journals. He is a recipient of the INSPIRE Faculty Award from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2013), and the JSPS Short-Term Research Fellowship (2023).

P K Datta joined IIT Kharagpur in 2000 and developed Laser Laboratory and Ultrafast Science Laboratory with funding from several Govt. agencies. His major contributions are integration of cascaded second order optical nonlinearity in a laser cavity for generation of mode-locked picoseconds laser pulses. Currently he is working on transient absorption spectroscopy, THz spectroscopy, time-resolved magneto-optical effect and ultrafast optical nonlinearity. He has supervised 15 PhD students and has published 130 papers in internationally referred journals.

Shailendra K. Varshney, currently a Professor in the Dept of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, has been working in the area of photonics for more than 20 years and has vast experience in the area of fibre-optics, and integrated photonics. Recently, his group at IIT Kharagpur has been involved in designing dielectric metasurface for various applications, integration with optical fibre end-face and, two-dimensional materials towards nonlinear and quantum photonic application perspectives. He and his group have a stronghold in the theoretical understanding, modeling and simulations of various photonic devices and Over the last few years, his group has been involved in nonlinear experiments with optical fibers, integrated photonic devices, and quantum photonics. To his credit, he is the recipient of GS Sanyal Faculty Excellence Award (2020), Faculty Excellence Award (2019), Alexander von Humboldt (2009), JSPS (2007), and DAAD (2015). He is the author of more than 110 research papers in international journals and more than 100 in conference proceedings. He is carrying out research projects in the area of quantum photonics, meta-photonics and nonlinear photonics from DST, ISRO, MEITY, and other funding agencies.