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PK Sahu

Prof. Prasant Kumar Sahu

Professor
  • Room No: 119, SECS
  • +91 674-7135738
  • pks@iitbbs.ac.in
  • School of Electrical and Computer Sciences
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Advanced Modulation Formats and Signal Processing Schemes, Communication System Design and Modelling, Fiber Optics Device Design and Simulation, High Bit-rate System Design, Optical Communication, Optical Sensor, Photonic-electronic Signal Processing
  • Multiband Shared Aperture Antenna Array Synthesis and Analysis for Radar Platform
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh; Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: LRDE, DRDO, India,
    Year of Commencement: 2024.
  • Carbon aerogel- 2D material based hybrid nanocomposites for microwave absorption application
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Sarathchandran C, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham; Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Funding Agency: AR&DB, DRDO, India,
    Year of Commencement: 2024.
  • 5G User Case Lab
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu; Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Funding Agency: MEITY, India,
    Year of Commencement: 2024.
  • Innovative Biosensor Platform Utilizing Hybrid Fiber Interferometry for Enhanced Performance
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu; Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Funding Agency: SERB-CRG, India,
    Year of Commencement: 2024.
  • Design and Development of Doppler Radar System for Inbore Measurement
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh; Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: ARMREB, DRDO, India,
    Year of Commencement: 2022.
  • Design and Development of a Software Defined Radar for Road Safety Applications
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu; Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Funding Agency: State Transport Authority, Odisha, India,
    Year of Commencement: 2021.
  • Bone health classification using machine learning
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh; Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: SERB – DST, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2021.
  • Add on Radar for Jamming UAVs
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh; Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,
    Funding Agency: ATB, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2020.
  • DST-FIST Grant for setting up / upgradation of Microwave-Optical Engineering and Sensing Laboratory
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu; Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Debalina Ghosh,
    Funding Agency: DST, Govt. of India,
    Year of Commencement: 2018.

 

  • Speech Based Access of Agricultural Commodity Prices and Weather Information in Indian
    Languages/ Dialects – Odiya LanguagePrincipal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. N V L N Murty,

    Funding Agency: DeitY, Govt. of India,

    Year of Commencement: 2014

  • Robust Nonlinear Channel Equalization and Identification Using Bio-Inspired techniquesPrincipal Investigator: Prof. G. Panda,Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,

    Funding Agency: DST, Govt. of India,

    Year of Commencement: 2010.

  • Design and Implementation of three Virtual class rooms at IIT BhubaneswarPrincipal Investigator: Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahu,Funding Agency: Ministry of Communication & IT, Govt. of India,

    Year of Commencement: 2010.

Introduction to Electronics (EEA 2002),

Measurements and Electronics Instruments (EES 2002),

Analog and Digital Communication (EEA 3004),

Modern Radar System (EE S 60079),

Information Theory & Coding (EES 6001),

Optical Communication (EC6L012),

Advance Communication Engineering (EEA6001),

Electromagnetic Engineering (EES2001),

Design and Simulation Lab (EC6P005),

Analog Communication (EC2L005),

Analog Communication Lab (EC2P005),

Digital Communication (EC3L006),

Digital communication lab (EC3P003)

  1. Bijayananda Patnaik (Completed) [Oct,2009-Nov,2013]
  2. Himansu Shekhar Pradhan (Completed)  [Jan 2012-March2017]
  3. Ramji T (Completed)  [Jan 2016-June 2022]
  4. Suman Mallik (Completed) [Jan 2016-April 2021]
  5. Sarthak Mohapatra (Completed)  [July 2016-June 2022]
  6. Manish Mishra (Ongoing) [Jan 2020-Continuing]
  7. Nishtha Srivatsava  (Ongoing)
  8. Subhrajyoti Sunani  (Ongoing)

Post-Graduate Research Scholars:

Sr. No. PG Scholar Thesis Title Graduation
Year		 Current Affiliation
1 Utkarsh Sharma Health Monitoring and Damage Identification using Fiber Optics Sensor 2014
2 S Sarath Chandra Performance Analysis and design of DWDM fiber optics communication system 2014 Engineer, Qualcomm,
USA
3 Mohan Lal Design and Analysis of Microstrip Fractal Antennas 2014
4 Anil K Yadav Sparse Representation based Algorithm for Simultaneous Detection and Elimination of Impulsive Noise from Audio Signals 2014 Automotive Radar Signal Processing,
Continental (Germany), India.
5 D Satya Ganesh Speech Based Access of Agricultural Dealers Information in Odia Language 2016 Technical Specialist,
Continental (Germany), India.
6 Tarun Prakash Design of Ultra-Wideband Pulse Generator 2016 Asst. Professor,
RRSDCE, Bihar, India.
7 Pankaj Ku Singh UWB Pulse Generation Using Optical Method 2017
8 S H Basha Radio over Fiber for Next Generation Communication 2017
9 C Aswini J A Novel PPM Scheme for Outdoor Ultra-Wideband Impulse Radio Communication 2017 Scientist, DRDO.
10 Saket Kumar Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Transceiver for Wideband Systems 2017 Asst. Professor,
GEC, Bihar, India.
11 Nithin Kumar Corrosion monitoring using optical fiber sensor 2018
12 Md Taufeeq Ahmed Ultra-Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing-Passive Optical Networks 2018 Engineer,
Nokia, India.
13 Ayush K Singh Energy Harvesting for Target Detection 2018
14 Gaurav B Bansode Design and Implementation of Optical Rectenna for IR Energy Harvesting 2018 Engineer, AdaptiveWaves
Inc., Boston, USA.
15 Kalla Jaya Teja Design and development of elderly care system 2019 Doctoral Student,
IISc Bangalore.
16 Deepak Kumar Human Vital sign classification using RADAR 2019 Senior Software Engineer,
MathWorks, India.
17 G Shruti Study of mutual coupling in linear and conformal arrays 2019 Sr. Engineer,
Qualcomm, India.
18 Govind Satpathy Analysis and Simulation of MIMO-OFDM system 2020 Sr. Firmware Engineer,
Qualcomm, India.
19 Kandregula Chanukya Speech based Health Care System 2020 Engineer,
Qualcomm, India.
20 Debashis Samanta Analysis of FBG based Sensors for SHM 2021 SoC Design Engineer,
Intel, India.
21 B. Srujan Kumar Micro-Doppler Analysis of Drones 2021 Engineer,
HAL, India.
22 Ranjit Kumar Detection of Human Activity Behind the Wall using RF Signals 2022 UWB RF Engineer,
NXP Semiconductors,
India.
23 Nikhil Niranjan Antenna Design using AI 2025 Continuing
  1. Mishra, P., Sahu, P.K., Kumar, H. and Jha, R. (2023), Human Pulse and Respiration Monitoring: Reconfigurable and Scalable Balloon-Shaped Fiber Wearables. Adv. Mater. Technol. 2300429. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202300429
  2. Manish Mishra & Prasant Kumar Sahu (2023) Fiber Bragg Gratings in Healthcare Applications: A Review, IETE Technical Review, 40:2, 202-219,  DOI: 10.1080/02564602.2022.2069608
  3. S. Malik, Y. H. Chung and P. K. Sahu, “On the performance of a hybrid frequency–phase-keying-based MIMO hybrid RF/FSO communication link,” in Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 840-851, October 2022, DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.459216.
  4. Sarthak Mohapatra, Mitul Abhangi, Sudhirsinh Vala, Prasant Kumar Sahu, S. Rath and N. V. L. Narasimha Murty, Comparative study of Single Crystal (SC)-Diamond and 4H-SiC bulk radiation detectors for room temperature alpha spectroscopy, Journal of Instrumentation, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/06/P06020
  5. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Review on the developments and potential applications of the fiber optic distributed temperature sensing system, J. IETE Technical Review, pp. 1-15, Jan. 2021. DOI: 10.1080/02564602.2021.1874551
  6. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu, S. Rath and N.V.L. Narasimha Murty, Defect characterization and numerical modelling of single-crystal ultra-pure intrinsic diamond, Diamond and Related Materials, Volume 106, June 2020, 107822, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diamond.2020.107822
  7. Malik, S, Sahu, PK. Free space optical system design using particle swarm optimization. Int J Commun Syst. 2020;e4452. DoI: https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4452
  8. S. Malik and P. K. Sahu, M-ary phase shift keying based single-input-multiple-out free space optical communication system over gamma-gamma fading channel and with pointing errors, OSA J. Applied Optics, vol. 59, no. 1, 2020.
  9. S. Malik and P. K. Sahu, Free space optics/millimetre-wave based vertical and horizontal terrestrial backhaul network for 5G, Elsevier- J. Optics Communication, vol. 459, 2020.
  10. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu, S. Rath, Pratap K. Sahu, Shikha Varma and N.V.L.Narasimha Murty, Impact of nitrogen induced defect dynamics on UV response of diamond photodetectors, Superlattices and Microstructures, Volume 142, June 2020, 106504, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spmi.2020.106504.
  11. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu, S. Rath and N.V.L. Narasimha Murty, Defect characterization and numerical modelling of single-crystal ultra-pure intrinsic diamond, Diamond and Related Materials, Volume 106, June 2020, 107822. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diamond.2020.107822
  12. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu and N.V.L.Narasimha Murty, Fabrication, Characterization and Technology Computer Aided Design Modelling of Single Crystal Diamond Photodetector, Sensor Letters , American Scientific Publishers, Volume 17, Number 6, June 2019, pp. 444-447(4). https://doi.org/10.1166/sl.2019.4092
  13. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu and N.V.L.Narasimha Murty, Fabrication, Characterization and Technology Computer Aided Design Modelling of Single-Crystal Diamond Photodetector, Sensor Letters , American Scientific Publishers, Volume 17, Number 6, June 2019, pp. 444-447(4), Doi: https://doi.org/10.1166/sl.2019.4092
  14. Himansu Shekhar Pradhan, Prasant Kumar Sahu, Measurement of temperature and strain simultaneously with high spatial resolution for a long sensing range,IET Optoelectronics, IET Digital Library, 2019/6/24
  15. S. Malik, P.K. Sahu, A comparative study on routing protocols for VANETs, Elsevier-Heliyon, vol. 5, no. 8, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02340.
  16. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Dynamic range enhancement of OTDR using lifting wavelet transform-modified particle swarm optimization scheme, J. IET Optoelectronics., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-8, Jul. 2019. DOI: 10.1049/iet-opt.2018.5163
  17. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Strain resolution enhancement in Rayleigh-OTDR based DSS system using LWT-MPSO scheme, J. Elsevier Optik, vol. 176, no. 1, pp. 102-113, Sep. 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2018.09.060
  18. Satya Ganesh Dontamsetti and P. K. Sahu, Speech Based Access of Agricultural Dealers Information in Odia Language, Journal of Appl. Theory Comput. Technol., 2016, 1(1), 8-16. DOI: 10.22496/atct20161026106
  19. H. S. Pradhan, P. K. Sahu, Brillouin distributed strain sensor performance improvement using FourWaRD algorithm, Optik-International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Elsevier, December 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2015.11.190
  20. P Padhy, PK Sahu, R Jha, “Metal Wire Waveguide Based All Plasmonic Refractive Index Sensor For Terahertz Frequencies,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2015
  21. H S Pradhan, PK Sahu, Brillouin distributed temperature sensor employing phase modulation and optimization techniques, Optik-International Journal for Light and Electron Optics 126 (7), 788-794, 2015
  22. Pradhan, H.S.; Sahu, P.K..  “High-performance Brillouin distributed temperature sensor using Fourier wavelet regularised deconvolution algorithm”, IET Optoelectronics, vol.8, no.6, pp.203-209,  December 2014
  23. Himansu Shekhar Pradhan, Prasant Kumar Sahu.  “Characterisation of Raman Distributed Temperature Sensor using Deconvolution Algorithms”,  IET Optoelectronics,  October 2014
  24. Himansu Shekhar Pradhan, P.K. Sahu.  “150 km long distributed temperature sensor using phase modulated probe wave and optimization technique”,  Optik – International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol. 125, no. 1, pp. 441-445, ISSN 0030-4026,  January 2014
  25. Sanjaykumar Gowre, Sudipta Mahapatra, S.K. Varshney, P.K. Sahu.  “Dispersion characteristics of all-glass photonic crystal fibers”,  Optik – International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol. 124, no. 18, pp. 3730-3733, ISSN 0030-4026,  September 2013
  26. Bijayananda Patnaik, P.K. Sahu.  “Ultra high capacity 1.28 Tbps DWDM system design and simulation using optimized modulation format”,  Optik – International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol. 124, no. 13, pp. 1567-1573, ISSN 0030-4026,  July 2013
  27. Bijayananda Patnaik, P.K. Sahu.  “Optimized ultra-high bit rate hybrid optical communication system design and simulation”,  Optik – International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, vol. 124, no. 2, pp. 170-176, ISSN 0030-4026, ,  January 2013
  28. Sanjaykumar Gowre, Sudipta Mahapatra, and P. K. Sahu.  “A Modified Structure for All-Glass Photonic Bandgap Fibers: Dispersion Characteristics and Confinement Loss Analysis”,  ISRN Optics, vol. 2013, Article ID 416537, 5 pages,  2013
  29. Bijayananda Patnaik and P. K. Sahu.  “Design and study of High Bit-rate Free- space Optical Communication System employing QPSK Modulation”,  Int. J. Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering, Inder Science, vol. 6, no. 1,  2013
  30. Patnaik, B.; Sahu, P.K..  “Inter-satellite optical wireless communication system design and simulation”,  IET Communications, vol.6, no.16, pp.2561-2567,  November 2012
  31. Vijay Kumar, Ganapati Panda, Prasant Kumar Sahu.  “DHT Based 4 QAM OFDM Baseband System and Channel Estimation”,  International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering, vol. 2, no. 5, pp 80-84,  November 2009
  32. Sahu, P.K.; Gowre, S.C.; Mahapatra, S..  “Optical time-domain reflectometer performance improvement using complementary correlated Prometheus orthonormal sequence”,  IET Optoelectronics, vol.2, no.3, pp.128-133,  June 2008
  33. Soto, Marcelo A.; Sahu, P.K.; Bolognini, Gabriele; Di Pasquale, F..  “Brillouin-Based Distributed Temperature Sensor Employing Pulse Coding”,  IEEE Sensors Journal, vol.8, no.3, pp.225-226,  March 2008
  34. Soto, M.A.; Sahu, P.K.; Faralli, S.; Bolognini, G.; Di Pasquale, F.; Nebendahl, B.; Rueck, C..  “Distributed temperature sensor system based on Raman scattering using correlation-codes”,  Electronics Letters , vol.43, no.16, pp.862-864,  August 2007
  1. Prasant Kumar Sahu, Rajan Jha, and Debalina Ghosh, “Raman Distributed Temperature Sensor Performance Analysis Using Wavelet Technique,” 5th -8th July 2023, IIS, Bangalore, India
  2. Prasant Kumar Sahu, “Structural Health Monitoring Using Fiber Sensor”, Global Congress on Lasers, Optics and Photonics, August 10-12, 2023 | London, UK
  3. Mishra, M., Sahu, P.K. (2022). A Study on Apodization Profiles of Fiber Bragg Gratings. In: Mohanty, M.N., Das, S. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Computing and Communication. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 430. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0825-5_19
  4. M. Mishra and P. K. Sahu, “A Study on Pulse Wave Signals based on Fibre Bragg Grating Arrays,” 2023 IEEE Applied Sensing Conference (APSCON), Bengaluru, India, 2023, pp. 1-3, doi: 10.1109/APSCON56343.2023.10101328.
  5. M. Mishra and P.K. Sahu, ” Evaluation of Pulse Rate from Radial Artery Using Fibre Bragg Grating Arrays,” 2023 International Conference on Microwave, Optical and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023
  6. S. Malik and P. K. Sahu, “Design and Performance Study of Free Space Optical Communication System,” 2023 International Conference on Microwave, Optical, and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICMOCE57812.2023.10165952.
  7. P. K. Sahu and D. Ghosh, “Detection of On-Road Vehicle Speed Using Software-Defined Radar,” 2023 International Conference on Microwave, Optical, and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICMOCE57812.2023.10166612
  8. P.K. Sahu and Debalina Ghosh, “A study on real-time vehicle speed measurement techniques,” Springer, 7th International Conference on Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies, 22-23RD May 2023, Namakkal, India
  9. H. Das, P. Kumar Sahu, and K. Khanikar, “AI-based license plate detection of on-road vehicle,” 2023 International Conference on Microwave, Optical, and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICMOCE57812.2023.10167115.
  10. N. Shrivastava, D. Ghosh and P. K. Sahu, “Bone Health Classification using Machine Learning,” 2023 International Conference on Microwave, Optical, and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICMOCE57812.2023.10166486.
  11. M. Mishra and P. K. Sahu, “Evaluation of Pulse Rate from Radial Artery Using Fibre Bragg Grating Arrays,” 2023 International Conference on Microwave, Optical, and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-3, doi: 10.1109/ICMOCE57812.2023.10165953.
  12. Sahu P.K. , OFDM-FSO Communication System Analysis, Advances in Intelligent Computing and Communication. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol 202.pp:567-576, 2021, Springer, Singapore https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0695-3_53
  13. Sarthak Mohapatra, Mitul Abhangi, Sudhirsinh Vala, Prasant Kumar Sahu and N. V. L. Narasimha Murty, Alpha irradiation induced stability studies in single crystal diamond radiation detectors, 37th RD50 Workshop 2020, Zagreb-Croatia
  14. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Dynamic range improvement of backscattered optical signals using signal processing techniques, in proc. of Int. IEEE Conf. on Appl. Signal Process.(ASPCON), pp. 66-69, Oct. 2020
  15. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Distributed optical fiber sensing system performance improvement using signal processing techniques, in proc. of Int. Springer Conf. on an Intelligent Comput. & Advances in Commun. (ICAC), vol. 109, pp. 37-45, Jan. 2020, ISBN : 978-981-15-2773-9
  16. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing System Performance Improvement using Signal Processing Techniques, Int. Springer Conf. on Intelligent Comput. & Advances in Commun. (ICAC), Nov. 2019.
  17. S. Malik and P.K. Sahu, Design and Performance Study of Free Space Optical Communication System, ICW-TELKOMNIKA-2019, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 19-22 Nov. 2019.
  18. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, An efficient BOTDR based DSS system, Int. Joint Symposia on Photon. & Optics (OSA-OSK-OSJ), Jul. 2019.
  19. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu and N.V.L.Narasimha Murty, Ultra-violet response and electrical characterization of Single-crystal diamond photoconductors, DIAM 2019, Spain.
  20. Sarthak Mohapatra, P.K. Sahu and N.V.L.Narasimha Murty, Numerical Modeling of Native Defects in CVD Grown Diamond Photodetectors, 2018 IEEE Electron Devices Kolkata Conference (EDKCON). Doi: 10.1109/EDKCON.2018.8770414.
  21. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Temperature resolution enhancement in BOTDR based distributed temperature sensing system using LWT-MPSO method, Int. IEEE Conf. on Appl. Elect.magn. Signal Process. & Commun. (AESPC), Oct. 2018.
  22. S. Malik, P.K. Sahu, Study on wireless communication aspect of VANETs, IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC), Kolkata, India, pp. 1-4, Nov. 2018.
  23. S. Malik, P.K. Sahu, Performance Analysis of Free Space Optical Communication System Using Different Modulation Schemes over Weak to Strong Atmospheric Turbulence Channels, Int. Springer conference-Optical and Wireless Technologies, pp. 387-399, Feb. 2018.
  24. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Strain resolution and spatial resolution improvement of BOCDR based DSS system using particle swarm optimization algorithm, Int. Springer Conf. on Opt. & Wireless Technol. (OWT), Feb. 2018.
  25. Ramji Tangudu and Prasant Kumar Sahu, Temperature resolution and spatial resolution improvement of BOCDR based DTS system using particle swarm optimization algorithm, 7th Int. Springer Conf. on Soft Comput. for Probl. Solv. (SocProS), vol. 1, pp. 781-792, Dec. 2017.
  26. S. Malik and P. K. Sahu, “A study on free space optical communication for Bhubaneswar City,” IEEE USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), San Diego, CA, 2017, pp. 101-102.
  27. Shaik Abdul Hai Basha and P K Sahu ,4-QAM and 16-QAM Modulation Employing Single Dual Drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator and FBG for OFDM-Radio-over-Fiber System Accepted for IEEE, ICCCP-17, 2017
  28. Suman Malik and P.K. Sahu, A study on Free Space Optical Communication for Bhubaneswar City” Accepted for IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting in San Diego, California, 2017
  29. P.K. Sahu and D. Ghosh Performance Analysis of Next-generation Passive Optical Network (XG – PON), Accepted for IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting in San Diego, California, 2017
  30. D Ghosh, PK Sahu, UWB in healthcare, 2016 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), pp. 679-682,sept 2016
  31. Himansu Shekhar Pradhan and P. K. Sahu. “Brillouin distributed strain sensor performance enhancement employing FourWaRD algorithm”, 12th International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, IIT Kharagpur,  December 2014.
  32. Naik, R.K., Sahu, P.K.. “Least Square Deconvolution of Rayleigh LiDAR System for Upper Atmospheric Study”,  10th International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation & Remote Sensing (ICMARS-2014), Jodhpur, India,  December 2014
  33. Naik, R.K., Sahu, P.K..  “Effect of Telescope Aperture Area in the Performance of LiDAR System”,  12th International conference on fiber optics and photonics (PHOTONICS 2014), Kharagpur, India,  December 2014
  34. Sharath Chandra S, Prasant K. Sahu.  “Performance Analysis of DWDM Communication System using an Inline Module”,  12th International conference on fiber optics and photonics (PHOTONICS 2014), Kharagpur, India,  December 2014
  35. P. K. Sahu, Somanath Pradhan, Bijayananda Patnaik.  “Photonic Generation of Microwave Signals Using Single Laser Technique”,  Proc. of the Second Intl. Conf. on Advances In Computing, Electronics and Communication – ACEC 2014, Switzerland, pp. 156-160.,  October 2014
  36. P. K. Sahu and Himansu Shekhar Pradhan.  “Performance Enhancement of Brillouin Distributed Temperature Sensor Using Optimized Fiber”,  Intelligent Computing, Networking, and Informatics, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer India, vol. 243, pp 81-89,  June 2014
  37. Utpal Das, P. K. Sahu and Bijayananda Patnaik.  “Ultra High Bit-rate Fiber Optic Hybrid (WDM and TDM) Communication System Design and Simulation”,  Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics- Volume 2 Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies Volume 28, 2014, pp 159-168,  2014
  38. Naik, R.K.; Sahu, P.K..  “Comprehensive study on deconvolution and denoising of LiDAR back-scattered signal”,  International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), 2013, pp.1-6,  December 2013
  39. Pradhan, H.S.; Sahu, P.K..  “Spontaneous Brillouin scattering based distributed fiber optic temperature sensor design and simulation using phase modulation and optimization technique,”  2012 Sixth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), pp.300,304,  December 2012
  40. Pradhan, H.S.; Sahu, P.K..  “Suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering using optimization techniques”,  5th International Conference on Computers and Devices for Communication (CODEC), 2012, pp.1-4,  December 2012
  41. Patnaik, B.; Sahu, P.K..  “Novel QPSK modulation for DWDM free space optical communication system”,  Wireless Advanced (WiAd), 2012, pp.170-175,  June 2012
  42. Patnaik, B.; Sahu, P.K..  “Novel QPSK modulation technique for DWDM free space optical communication system”,  21st Annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), 2012, pp.140-145,  April 2012
  43. Bijayananda Patnaik, P.K. Sahu.  “Optimized Hybrid Optical Communication System for First Mile and Last Mile Problem Solution of Today’s Optical Network”,  Procedia Technology, vol. 6, 2012, Pages 723-730, ISSN 2212-0173, ,  2012
  44. Bijayananda Patnaik and Prasant Kumar Sahu.  “Long-haul 64-channel 10-Gbps DWDM system design and simulation in presence of optical Kerr’s effect”,  In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Communication, Computing & Security (ICCCS ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp- 62-66.,  2011
  45. Patnaik, B.; Sahu, P.K..  “Optimization of Four Wave Mixing Effect in Radio-over-Fiber for a 32-Channel 40-GBPS DWDM System”,  2010 International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED), pp.119-124,  December 2010
  46. Sahu, P.K.; Soto, M.A.; Jeonghwan Lee; Bolognini, G.; Namkyoo Park; Di Pasquale, F..  “Analysis of Brillouin-Based Distributed Fiber Sensors Using Optical Pulse Coding,”  Conference on Optical Fiber communication/ National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. pp.1-3,  February 2008
  47. M. Ravi Kumar, P. K. Sahu, K. Esakki Muthu, P. Ganguly, S. Mahapatra, S. S. Pathak.  “Design and analysis of a zero-gap directional coupler based mode separator”  9th International Conference on fiber optics and photonics, Photonics-2008, PT-53,  2008
  48. Gowre, S.K.C.; Mahapatra, S.; Sahu, P.K.; Biswas, J.C..  “Design and analysis of a modified Photonic Crystal Fiber structure,”  International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, ICIIS 2007. pp. 159-162,  August 2007
  49. Soto, M. A., Sahu, P. K., Faralli, S., Sacchi, G., Bolognini, G., Di Pasquale, F., Nebendahl, B., Rueck, C..  “High performance and highly reliable Raman-based distributed temperature sensors based on correlation-coded OTDR and multimode graded-index fibers”,  Proc. SPIE 6619, Third European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, 66193B,  July 2007
  50. Sahu, P.K.; Gowre, S.K.C.; Mahapatra, S.; Biswas, J.C. “Numerical modeling and simulation of fibre-Bragg grating based devices for all-optical communication network,”  2006 IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, pages 4, 2006
  1. Himansu Shekhar Pradhan and P. K. Sahu, “SNR Enhancement of Brillouin Distributed Strain Sensor using Optimized Receiver”, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics, ICACNI 2015, Volume 1, Part IV, Pp:377-384, ISBN: 978-81-322-2537-9
  2. P. K. Sahu and Himansu Shekhar Pradhan, “Performance Enhancement of Brillouin Distributed Temperature Sensor Using Optimized Fiber,” Intelligent Computing, Networking, and Informatics, Volume 243, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp 81-89, ISBN: 978-81-322-1664-3, 2013
  3. Utpal Das, P.K. Sahu, Bijayananda patnaik, “Ultra High Bit-rate Fiber Optic Hybrid (WDM and TDM) Communication System Design and Simulation,” Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics- Volume 2, Volume 28 , Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies pp 159-168, ISBN:978-3-319-07349-1, 2014
  4. 35th National Systems Conference: Advanced Research Series edited by D. Ghosh, P.K. Sahu, G. Panda and S. Mukhopadhyay ISBN: 978-935-059-045-4
  5. Himanshu Shekhar Pradhan, P.K. Sahu, D. Ghosh and Sudipta Mahapatra, “Brillouin Distributed Temperature sensor using Optical Time domain reflectometry Techniques Fiber Optics Sesnors: Current Status and Fiuture possibilities, ISSN: 2194-8402, Springer
 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. E&ECE 2008 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

[1] Dean (Alumni Affairs and International Relations): June 2022 to continuing;

[2] DPC Chair (Technical), 2022 to continuing;

[3] Academic council member, VSSUT, Burla 2023-continuing;

[4] Professor in charge VARCoE: July 2019 to March 2023;

[5] Senate member, IIIT Bhubaneswar, 2019-2022;

[6] Senate Member, IIT Bhubaneswar, 2016-2019;

[7] Senate Member, IIT Bhubaneswar, 2020-Continuing;

[8] HoS (Electrical Sciences): July 2016 to June 2019;

[9] PIC, Networks and Security Services, 2016-2022;

[10] Chairman, CITSC 2016-2019;

[11] PG Coordinator (ECE):2012-2014;

[12] Chairman, CITSC 2012-2015 ;

[13] HoS (Electrical Sciences) 2010-2012;

[14] EAA Coordinator 2009-2011, PIC-Telephone network, PIC-Timetable;

  • Senior Member Optical Society Of America (OSA) – 2018
  • Fellow IE(I) (2018)
  • Memebr ISSE-2017
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences, India (MNASc)-2016
  • Fellow IETE – 2013
  • Senior Member IEEE – 2012
  • Life Member System Society of India -2010
  • Indo-Italian Research Fellowship (2007-08)

Seminars and Workshops at IIT Bhubaneswar 

12/2011 35th National System Conference
06/2013 Short term course Advances in Photonic Networks and Communication Engineering (APCE)
12/2014 Winter school on Microwave, Photonics, Devices & Wireless Communications (MPDWC)
12/2015 1st International Conference on Microwave, Optical and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE-2015)
06/2021 Short-term Course on Microwave and Photonics Devices and Modelling
05/2023 2nd International Conference on Microwave, Optical and Communication Engineering (ICMOCE-2023)
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