{"id":29019,"date":"2023-09-29T14:08:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T18:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=29019"},"modified":"2023-09-29T14:08:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T18:08:56","slug":"siddarth-ramachandran","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/siddarth-ramachandran\/","title":{"rendered":"Siddarth Ramachandran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;The Ramachandran Group studies the fundamental properties and applications of spatially structured light beams. Examples of such states of light include (a) Bessel beams that can self-heal through obstructions and are diffraction resistant for longer distances than conventional Gaussian beams; (b) beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) that enable super-resolution microscopy or rotate microscopic particles in optical tweezer configurations. A central aim of the group is use of such beams for applications ranging from microscopy and machining to quantum telecommunications and sensing.\\n\\nAreas of Interest\\nNonlinear, Ultrafast and Quantum Photonics\\nFundamentals of light-matter interactions\\nFibers and guided-wave devices\\nSuper-resolution &amp; Brain imaging\\nClassical &amp; Quantum Networks&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:12416,&quot;10&quot;:2,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;\\&quot;EB Garamond\\&quot;&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:12}\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/physics\/profile\/siddharth-ramachandran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ramachandran<\/a> Group studies the fundamental properties and applications of spatially structured light beams. Examples of such states of light include (a) Bessel beams that can self-heal through obstructions and are diffraction resistant for longer distances than conventional Gaussian beams; (b) beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) that enable super-resolution microscopy or rotate microscopic particles in optical tweezer configurations. A central aim of the group is use of such beams for applications ranging from microscopy and machining to quantum telecommunications and sensing.<\/p>\n<p>Areas of Interest<br \/>\nNonlinear, Ultrafast and Quantum Photonics<br \/>\nFundamentals of light-matter interactions<br \/>\nFibers and guided-wave devices<br \/>\nSuper-resolution &amp; Brain imaging<br \/>\nClassical &amp; Quantum Networks<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=C-yr4tcAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ramachandranlab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22842,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/29019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/29019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29021,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/29019\/revisions\/29021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}