Prof. Raj Kumar

About

Prof Raj Kumar is working in the area of Optics and Photonics Instrumentation including Holography (Conventional, Digital, Computer, Metasurface), Interferometry, Augmented Reality Displays, Dynamic Holographic Displays, Holographic Sensors.
He supervises dissertation research work of Ph D enrolled at AcSIR.
The research work has been recognized with few awards and fellowships (Raman Research Fellow, Commonwealth Fellowship (to student)).
Prospective Ph D candidates with valid fellowship are well to join the research group at CSIR- Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh.
Post Doctoral Fellows are also encouraged to join the research group through various national PDF programs like NPDF and other reputed fellowships.

Employment

• Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research Professor
  2025 - Present
• CSIR Central Scientific Instruments Organisation Scientist
  2012 - Present
• Institute for Plasma Research Scientist
  2007 - 2012

Education

• Central Scientific Instruments Organisation CSIR Ph D
  2005 - 2008

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (108)

• Self-aligned prism-free fabricated stacked holographic couplers for a full-color augmented reality display
  Applied Optics 2026 DOI: 10.1364/AO.604532
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• Quantitative phase retrieval of the boundary diffraction wave emanated from a straight edge using a diffraction Lloyd mirror interferometer
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A 2026 DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.590567
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• Self-referencing collimation metrology using path-tunable single-beam interferometry
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A 2026 DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.595560
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• Signal–reference correlation for modal structure retrieval in disordered optical fields
  Optics Letters 2026 DOI: 10.1364/OL.596836
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• Polarization-based real-time diffraction efficiency measurement of reflection volume holographic gratings
  Applied Optics 2026 DOI: 10.1364/AO.582247
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• Advances in Optical Metrology: High-Bandwidth Digital Holography for Transparent Objects Analysis
  Photonics 2025 DOI: 10.3390/photonics12060617
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• Enhancing field of view of digital holography using an angular multiplexed holographic optical element
  Optics Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1364/OL.561590
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• Improved color uniformity in monochrome holographic waveguide based near eye displays
  Optics Express 2025 DOI: 10.1364/OE.566713
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• Advances in Optical Metrology: High Bandwidth Digital Holography for Transparent Object Analysis
  2025 DOI: 10.20944/preprints202505.1860.v1
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• Lensless Fourier transform multiplexed digital holography
  Optics Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1364/OL.544103
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