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Prof.Devendra Chack

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: Electronics Engineering

Email: devendra[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact Number:

Office Number: +91-326-223-5660

Personal Page: Under Construction

About Me: I received my M.Tech (PG) and PhD from the Department of Electronics Engineering of IIT (ISM) in 2009 and 2017 respectively. I received the B.E (UG) in Electronics Engineering Madhav Institute of Technology & Science (MITS), Gwalior in 2006 (The institute is declared Deemed to be University under Distinct Category by Ministry of Education, Government of India in the year 2024). I joined the IIT (ISM) Dhanbad as an Assistant Professor in 2011, where I am now an Associate professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering. I am a senior member of the IEEE, SPIE and Optica. Recently, I received a research grant of ₹1.98 Crore as the Principal Investigator (PI) from the TTDF/Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India, under the Accelerated Research on 6G Communications initiative. The project is being carried out in collaboration with researchers from the IIT Madras and IIT Indore.

Research Interest: CMOS-foundry-compatible Silicon photonic devices and circuits for 6G and Beyond, Photonic Integrated circuit, On-Chip Silicon Photonic Devices and circuits for Optical Phased array,

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

  • Post Graduate Level
    • Optical fiber communications
    • Photonic Integrated Circuits
    • Advanced optical communication
  • Undergraduate Level
    • Digital Electronics
    • Control systems
    • Signals and Networks
    • Signals and Systems
    • Optical Communication
    • Electronics Engineering

Academics

 

Degree

Subject

Institute/University

Course Duration Details

Year of

Commencement

Year of

Passing

Bachelor of Engineering

(BE)

Electronics Engineering

Madhav Institute of Technology & Science (MITS) Gwalior, M.P, India,

(A govt. Aided UGC autonomous institute, Affiliated to RGPV Bhopal Estd. In 1957)

2002

2006

Master of Technology

(M.Tech)

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad,

(Under Ministry of H.R.D.,

Govt. of India)

2007

2009

Ph.D

Photonic integrated circuits

Indian Institute of Technology

(Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad,

(An Institute of National Importance under Ministry of H.R.D.,

 Govt. of India)

31,

January,

2011

08, February, 2017

Position

 

Sl No

Organization

Designation

From (Date)

To (Date)

1.

Indian Institute of Technology

(Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India

Associate Professor

13/04/2022

Continuing

2.

Indian Institute of Technology

(Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India

Assistant Professor

23/12/2011

12/04/2022

3.

BT-Kumaon Institute of Technology, Dwarahat, Almora UK, India

(An Autonomous Institute of Govt. of UK), India

Assistant Professor

08/08/2011

19/12/2011

16/08/2010

30/06/2011

Awards and Honors

1. Received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Director, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, in recognition of successfully securing an externally funded R&D project worth ₹1.98 crore from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India.

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

 

Publications as  Associate Professor

1. R. R. Kumar, P. Basu, and Devendra Chack, “ Adaptive Phase Control of 44 Clements MZI Mesh for Stabilizing Noisy Gaussian Boson Sampling in Integrated Quantum Photonics.” Advanced Quantum Technologies (Wiley) 9, no. 7 (2026): e70353. https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.70353  (WoS SCIE, JIF: 4.3)

2. R. Guchhait, D. Maurya and Devendra Chack, "Compact on-chip Dual Grating Filter using Backward Mode Conversion," in IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 43, no. 15, pp. 7305-7310, 1 Aug.1, 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2025.3573514 (WoS SCIE, JIF: 5.2)
3. R. Guchhait, S. Hassan, Devendra Chack and G. Kumar, "Broadband On-Chip Three Mode (De) Multiplexer Using SWG-Asymmetric Adiabatic Coupling," in                                     IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 497-500, 15 April 15, 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2025.3556783
4. Diksha maurya , Devendra Chack and Vickey G, "Compact and Efficient Transverse Spliced Waveguide Grating Antenna for Integrated Optical Phased Array," in                             IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 23, pp. 665-672, 2024,  doi:  https://doi.org/10.1109/TNANO.2024.3459472
5. Devendra Chack and G. Kumar, "On-chip Non-Blocking 4 × 4 and 8 × 8 Photonic Switches Using MMI-MZI Configuration for Next-Generation Data Center Networks," in             IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 24, pp. 216-223, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TNANO.2025.3558256
6. Gaurav Kumar, Devendra Chack, 1 × N (N = 2, 4) dual-mode optical switch based on multimode interference coupler. Opt Quant Electron 57, 236 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-025-08174-4
7. Sunil Narayan Thool, Devendra Chack, “Next-generation optical networks: Integrating adaptive FEC rate LDPC and higher order probabilistic constellation shaping”, Optical Fiber Technology, Volume 94, 2025, 104324,ISSN 1068-5200,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yofte.2025.104324
8. Shamsul Hassan, Devendra Chack and Lorenzo Pavesi “Reconfigurable and Multifunction All Optical Logic Gates using Thermo-optic phase shifter for optical computing” AIP Advances 12, 055304 (03 May 2022) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086185   
  Publications as  Assistant Professor
9. Rukmani Singh, Devendra Chack, and Vishnu Priye, "SNROW-based highly sensitive label-free surface biosensor for hepatitis B detection," Appl. Opt. 61, 6510-6517 (2022). DOI No.:  https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.463800
10. Devendra Chack, Shamsul Hassan, and Mohd Qasim. "Broadband and low crosstalk silicon on-chip mode converter and demultiplexer for mode division multiplexing." Applied Optics 59.12 (2020): 3652-3659.    https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.390085
11. Shamsul Hassan, Devendra Chack, and Varad Mahajan. "High extinction ratio and low loss polarization beam splitter based on multimode interference for PICs." Applied Optics 59.11 (2020): 3369-3375. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.387418
12. Devendra Chack, Shamsul Hassan and Amitesh Kumar (2021) “Broadband and Mode insensitive MMI based mode power splitter for MDM” Laser Physics (IOP) 31 126205 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1555-6611/ac312c
13. Shamsul Hassan, and Devendra Chack. "Design and analysis of polarization independent MMI based power splitter for PICs" Microelectronics Journal 104 (2020): 104887.  
14. Devendra Chack, and Shamsul Hassan. "Design and experimental analysis of multimode interference-based optical splitter for on-chip optical interconnects." Optical Engineering 59.10 (2020): 105102.  
15. Rukmani Singh, Vishnu priye and  Devendra Chack, “Highly sensitive refractive index based sensor for DNA hybridization using subwavelength grating waveguide” IETE Technical Review (2022)
16. Sunil Thool, Devendra Chack, Amitesh Kumar (2021) “Coherent Detection-Based Optical OFDM, 60 GHz Radio-over-Fiber Link Using Frequency Quadrupling, and Channel and Carrier Phase Estimation” Front. Phys. 9:749497 
17. Devendra Chack, V. Kumar, S. K. Raghuwanshi and Dev P Singh “Design and analysis of   O-S-C triple band wavelength division demultiplexer using cascaded MMI couplers” Optics Communications, Volume 382, pp. 324–331, (2017)
18. Devendra Chack, V. Kumar and S. K. Raghuwanshi, Design and performance analysis of InP/InGaAsP-MMI based 1310/1550-nm wavelength division demultiplexer with tapered waveguide geometry, Opto-Electronics Review, Volume 23, Issue 4, pp. 271–277, (2015),

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

 

  1. Diksha Maurya and Devendra Chack, "Sub Wavelength Grating Based High Directionality Silicon Photonic Antenna for Beam Steering Application," 2026 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2026, pp. 1-2, doi:   10.1109/SiPhotonics68911.2026.11520704.  (The paper was presented by Devendra Chack at the IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference 2026, held in Ottawa from April 13–15, 2026)
  2. K. Santhosh, Diksha. Maurya and Devendra Chack, "Design and Monte Carlo-Based Fabrication Robustness Analysis of a Binary-Encoded 1×2 Silicon Power Splitter," 2026 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2026, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/SiPhotonics68911.2026.11520763.  (The paper was presented by Devendra Chack at the IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference 2026, held in Ottawa from April 13–15, 2026)
  3. R. R. Kumar, R. Guchhait, and Devendra Chack, "Tilted Subwavelength Grating Assisted Directional Coupler Based WDM," in Advanced Photonics Congress (IPR, Networks, NOMA, SOLITH, SPPCom), Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2025), paper JTu3A.5.  https://doi.org/10.1364/IPRSN.2025.JTu3A.5 (Advanced Photonics Congress, 13–17 July 2025, Marseille, France)
  4. D. Maurya, Devendra Chack, and R. R. Kumar, "Highly efficient and compact non-uniform waveguide grating antenna for off-chip coupling," in Advanced Photonics Congress (IPR, Networks, NOMA, SOLITH, SPPCom) , Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2025), paper JTu3A.6. https://doi.org/10.1364/IPRSN.2025.JTu3A.6 (Advanced Photonics Congress, 13–17 July 2025, Marseille, France)
  5. Devendra Chack, Shamsul Hassan, and Abhishek Kumar "Design and analysis of polarization beam splitter based on cascaded MMI on SOI", Proc. SPIE 11283, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXIV, 1128320 (25 February 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2544405 (SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics Photonics West OPTO 2020 at San Francisco, USA)
  6. S. Hassan and Devendra Chack, “MZI based Silicon photonic circuits for arbitrary power splitting application”, JSAP-OSA Joint Symposia 2018, paper 21p_211B_8. at Nagoya Japan 18–21 September 2018. 
  7. S. Hassan and Devendra Chack, "Design and performance analysis of MMI based all optical logic gates on SOI substrate," 2018 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), Dhanbad, 2018, pp. 1-2.
  8. S. K. Raghuwanshi, V. Kumar, Devendra Chack, and R.R. Pandey, “Dispersion study of even mode thin planar slab dielectric waveguide without computing d2β dk2  numerically” Procedia Technology, Volume 1, pp 286–290, (2012).
  9. Devendra Chack, V. Kumar and D. Singh. “Performance Analysis of 1310/1490 nm Demultiplexer based on Multimode Interference Coupler for PON”, In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology ISBN 978-989-758-174-8, pp 223-226 (2016), Rome, Italy (The paper was presented in the conf.)
  10. Devendra Chack, S. K. Raghuwanshi, V. Kumar and N. Agrawal,  “Analyzing the Optimum Parameter of an 1×2 MMI Splitter” , IEEE-International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies, (CSNT-13), April 6-8, pp 149-151 (2013),  Gwalior , India.
  11. Devendra Chack, S. K. Raghuwanshi, V. Kumar and  N. Agrawal, “Field Propagation Study of Y- Branch Assisted by MMI Coupler” Proceedings of 3rd World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT-2012), 14-16 November 2012 pp 1795-1800 (2013), at University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (The paper was presented in the conf.)
  12. Devendra Chack, S. K. Raghuwanshi and V. Kumar “Pulse Propagation Study of 1×4 Multibranch Optical Waveguide Using 3-Y Branch Optical Waveguide”  Proceedings of 3rd World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT-2012), 14-16 November 2012, pp 1790-1794 (2013), at University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain  (The paper was presented in the conf.)

Patents

 

  1. Devendra Chack, Rajarshi Guchhait, Diksha Maurya “Two-stage wavelength selective filter with MWG-based CDC and SWG-assisted adiabatic dual mode converter for higher order backward mode conversion”  (Published on 21-03-2025)
  2. Devendra Chack, Ravi Roushan Kumar, Prantik Basu, “Dual-Mode Non-Blocking 4×4 Integrated Photonic Multifunctional Switch” (Filed on 18-03-26)

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

S.N

Title

    Cost

  (in INR)

  Duration

PI and Co-PI

Funding Agency

1.

Silicon Photonic Chip based N × N Photonic Switches for 6G and Beyond

1.98 Cr

2025 - 2028

PI

TTDF/ DoT

2.

Development of field deployable fiber bragg grating sensor for monitoring of hazardous toxic chemicals

34.0 Lakhs

2018 - 2021

Co-PI

BRNS/DAE

3.

On-chip Silicon Photonic Switches for High Performance Computing and Datacenter Networks

20.3 Lakhs

Nov 2019-

2022

PI

SERB/DST

5.

Study on basic Photonics Components for WDM Applications

2.0 Lakhs

2017 - 2019

PI

TEQIP-III

Membership of Scientific Societies

 

  • Life Time Associate  Member of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE)  Associate Member  No AM-219689
  • Life fellow of Optical Society of India (OSI), ID# L657
  • IEEE & IEEE Photonics Society, Senior Member # 93027538
  • SPIE (the international society for optics and Photonics),  Senior Member ID# 3649141
  • Optica (formerly OSA) Senior Member ID# 1041033

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

Conference /Workshop/Event Organised:

  • Organized a invited talk on the occasion of the International Day of Light Week under the Optica Student Chapter. The talk invited was delivered by Prof. Ksenia Dolgaleva, Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa, on May 13, 2026.
  • Organized an invited talk under the Optica Student Chapter. The lecture was delivered by Shailendra K. Varshney, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, on April 24, 2026.
  • Organised the 2nd IEEE-ELEXCOM 2025, an international conference held during 20–22 December 2025 at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, in the capacity of Organising Chair. https://www.iitr.ac.in/elexcom/Organizing_Committee.html
  • Organized an invited lecture under the Optica Student Chapter. The lecture was delivered by Lawrence R. Chen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, on October 15, 2024.
  • Organized an SPIE TECHNICAL Webinar 3.2 (PHOTONIC INDIANS LECTURE SERIES) delivered by Prof. Deepa Venkitesh (EE, IIT Madras) on 24/03/22.Title: "The Changing Phases of Optical Communication”
  • Organized an SPIE TECHNICAL Webinar 3.1 (PHOTONIC INDIANS LECTURE SERIES) delivered by Prof. Bijoy Krishna Das, IIT Madras on 30/09/2022.
  • Organized an SPIE Webinar talk delivered by Prof. Winnie Ye, Carleton university, Ottawa, Canada) on 24/03/22
  • Organized an SPIE Webinar series 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 (International and national talk) on October 2021
  • Steering committee member of International Symposium on 5G and Beyond for Rural Upliftment, 08-09 February 2020 at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India. [Twinning activity between BIT Sindri & IIT(ISM) Dhanbad]
  • Organized invited talk delivered by Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, under the SPIE Visiting Lecturer Program on December 4, 2019.
  • Organized School Outreach Activities on 28th and 29 September 2019. In this activity, the application of light and optical  experiments have been demonstrated to government schools such as Kendriya Vidyalaya-2 Dhanbad and  our institute social and welfare society (Karma-Jyoti Society school students.
  • Organized a technical quiz competition, an Exhibition of photography, and Sky lantern event on International Day of Light (IDL) on May 16 2019 under the SPIE Student chapter.
  • Organized invited talk delivered by Prof. Lorenzo Pavesi, Nanoscience Laboratory, University of Trento, Italy under the SPIE Visiting Lecturer Program on 27, October 2018.
  • Coordinator of the 4th workshop on “Recent Trends in Photonics Technology 2018” is to be held during 25-27 October 2018 at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India [jointly organized by Optical Society (OSA) and International Society of Optics & Photonics (SPIE), student chapters]

  • Steering committee member of IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored International Conference on Microwave and Photonics 2018 (ICMAP 2018), held during 09-11 February 2018 at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India.

  • Served as Co-Convener for two days’ workshop on “Emerging trends in photonics technologies” on 3-4 February 2017 under the aegis of TEQIP-II held at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India.
  • Members of the organizing committee of the International OSA Network of Students (IONS) conference organized by the Optical Society (OSA) held at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad India from September 7 to 10, 2016.  
  • One of the organizing committee members of IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored International Conference on Microwave and Photonics 2013 (ICMAP 2013), held at ISM Dhanbad, India, during 13-15 Dec. 2013.
  • One of the organizing committee members of IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored International Conference on Microwave and Photonics 2013 (ICMAP 2015), held during 11-13 Dec. 2015 at ISM Dhanbad India.

 

Other Professional Assignments

  • Faculty Advisor of Optica (formerly OSA) (from December 10 2022).
  • Faculty Advisor of SPIE (SPIE is the international society for optics and Photonics) (November 1 2018 – December 10 2022).
  • Participated in focus meeting on Silicon photonics-based high-performance computing research and development in the country (under National Supercomputing Mission, Ministry of electronics and information technology), December 19 2018.
  • Program Committee Members of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing & Smart Communication (ICSC 2019), 19-21 April 2019, THDC-IHET, Tehri, India
  • Reviewed research papers of OSA- Optics Express
  • Reviewed research papers of OSA- Applied Optics
  • Reviewed research paper of IEEE-Photonics Technology Letters.
  • Reviewed research papers of Optical Engineering (SPIE).
  • Reviewed research paper of Journal of Nanophotonics (SPIE).

Guidance

 

Research Scholars

PhD Status

Research Interest/thesis title

Guides

 

Dr. Shamsul Hassan

Date of joining:

17/03/2017

Thesis Submitted on 05/10/2021

Silicon photonic devices using multimode interference coupler for photonic integrated circuits

 

Devendra Chack

Joined as Senior Principal Engineer @CoE-CPPICS, IIT Madras

https://cppics.iitm.ac.in/technology-officers

 

Dr. Rukmani Singh

Date of joining:

01/08/2017

Thesis Submitted on 07/01/2022

Modelling and Design of Silicon Optical Waveguides for Biosensor Applications

Prof. (Retd) Vishnu Priye.

Devendra Chack

Joined as as Research & Development Scientist | Optical Design Engineer at Seagate, UK

 

Dr. Gaurav Kumar

Date of joining:

01/08/2019

 Thesis Submitted on 28/07/2025

 

Design of Silicon Photonic Switches Based on Multi-Mode Interference Coupler

 

Devendra Chack

 

Dr. Sunil Narayan Thool

 Thesis Submitted on 17/10/2025

(Part-time)

Advanced Modulation and Digital Signal Processing Techniques for High-Capacity Optical Communications

 

Devendra Chack

Working as Scientist-E (Radar Division), India Meteorological Department (GoI), Delhi

 

Dr. Diksha Maurya

  Date of joining:

12-08-2021

Thesis Submitted on

11/02/2026

 

Subwavelength Grating Based Photonic Devices for On-Chip Optical Phased Array Applications

 

Devendra Chack

 

Mr. Ravi Roushan Kumar

       Date of joining:            08-08-2022

Full-time- Ongoing

Silicon Photonic Devices for Classical and Quantum Photonic Computing

Devendra Chack

 

Mr. Rishu Kumar

      Date of joining:     

07-03-2025

Full-time- Ongoing

 

CMOS-compatible silicon photonic chip

Devendra Chack
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