Dr. Kalaga Madhav

Research interests :

  1. Ground- and space-based astronomical Instruments
  2. Inverse design of photonics
  3. Nanophotonics

Areas of research :

  1. AFBG OH-emission filters for ground-based telescopes
  2. Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG) based high R spectrographs for ground- and space -based astronomy
  3. Micro-ring resonator based ultra-stable frequency combs for astronomy
  4. Photonic lanterns (PL)
  5. Adaptic Optics (AO)
  6. Beam combiners (DBC) and pupil re-mappers
  7. Technology transfer from astronomy : detecting skin cancer and micro-plastics through Raman spectroscopy using astronomical spectrographs.

NASA/ADS

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Office: LH/0-02
Phone: +49 331 7499 390
kmadhavnothing@aip.de

Leibniz-Institut
für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
An der Sternwarte 16
14482 Potsdam