April 26, 2019
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder gave an invited talk at the ICEECC 2019 in Kolkata, India on "Nanophotonics for enhanced photovoltaics, biosensing, and microscopy."

April 09, 2019
Our paper titled "Sensitivity analysis of gold nanorod biosensors for single molecule detection" has been accepted for publication in Plasmonics.

January 15, 2019
An article titled "Amazing Nanophotonics (Nanophotonics-er bisshoi)," has been published in Biggan Chinta. [ PDF ]

December 24, 2018
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder gave an invited talk at the Public Library Seminar room on 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. The event was organized by Biggan Chinta.

October 15, 2018
An article titled "Nobel Win for Lasers," has been published in Biggan Chinta. [ PDF ]

September 11, 2018
We have filed a United Kingdom patent application on our recent invention on two-photon terahertz quantum cascade laser.

March 23, 2018
Our paper titled "Distinguishing between whole cells and cell debris using surface plasmon coupled emission" has been accepted for publication in Biomedical Optics Express.

March 19, 2018
Our paper titled "An efficient and directional optical Tamm state assisted plasmonic nanolaser with broad tuning range" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Physics Communications.

January 25, 2018
Our paper titled "Theoretical analysis of bimetallic nanorod dimer biosensors for label-free molecule detection" has been accepted for publication in AIP Advances.

September 04, 2017
Our paper titled "Two-dimensional materials for improved resolution in total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy" has been accepted for publication at Materials Research Express.

August 24, 2017
Our paper titled "Imaging of cell membrane topography using Tamm plasmon coupled emission" has been accepted for publication in Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express.

March 23, 2017
Our paper titled "Terahertz quantum cascade laser with an X-valley-based injector" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Physics.

January 30, 2017
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder presented "Distinguishing between whole cells and cell debris using surface plasmon coupled emission" at Photonics West 2017, San Francisco, California, USA.

October 4, 2016
Our paper titled "A comprehensive model of gain recovery due to unipolar electron transport after a short optical pulse in quantum cascade lasers" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Physics.

May 12, 2016
Our paper titled "A Proposal and a Theoretical Analysis of an Enhanced Surface Plasmon Coupled Emission Structure for Single Molecule Detection" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Physics.

Our paper titled "Management of Light Absorption in Extraordinary Optical Transmission Based Ultra-Thin-Film Tandem Solar Cells" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Physics.

December 15, 2015
Our papers titled "'Quantum cascade thermo photovoltaic structures for broadband energy conversion" and "'Surface plasmon coupled emission enhancement with nanoparticles in the metal layer" have been accepted at the International Conference on Photonics (ICP), March 2016, Sarawak, Malaysia.

December 02, 2015
Our paper titled "Increased radiation absorption in thermophotovoltaic quantum cascade structures" has been accepted at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Telecommunication and Photonics (ICTP), December 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

November 20, 2015
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder chaired a plenary session at the South Asian Workshop on Optics and Photonics (SAWOP) held on 17 and 18 November 2015 at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), India. The event was co-organized by UNESCO to commemorate the International Year of Light 2015.

November 20, 2015
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder gave a plenary talk at the South Asian Workshop on Optics and Photonics (SAWOP) held on 17 and 18 November 2015 at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), India. The event was co-organized by UNESCO to commemorate the International Year of Light 2015.

August 01, 2015
Our papers titled "Enhancement of light absorption in a thin-film tandem solar cell with an intermediate layer of metal strips" and "Surface plasmon coupled emission with fluorescent molecules as broadband dipoles" have been accepted at IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Virginia, USA, October 4-8, 2015.

March 31, 2015
Md. Shahadat Hossain Sohel successfully defended his MSc thesis "Design and analysis of ultra-broadband gain medium and waveguide structures for terahertz emission."

January 29, 2015
Our paper titled "An efficient plasmonic photovoltaic structure using silicon strip-loaded geometry" has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Applied Physics, 2015.

December 21, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder chaired the technical session on "Photonics" at the 8th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE) held on 20-22 December, 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

December 07, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder gave an invited talk on "Creating and Controlling Shades of Light for Health and Environment" at the International Conference on Material Chemistry (ICMC), December 6-8, 2014, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet.

October 15, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder presented a paper titled "Suppression of Spatial Hole-Burning and Sub-Picosecond Pulses from Two-Section Quantum" at the IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), October 12-16, 2014, San Diego, USA.

August 11, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder gave an invited talk on "Modelocking quantum cascade lasers using quantum coherent saturable absorption" at the SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (NW-14), August 11-14, 2014, Cambridge, UK.

August 09, 2014
Fariah Hayee successfully defended her MSc thesis "Study of dynamics of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers pumped by near-infrared light."

July 31, 2014
A new United States patent application has been filed on our recent invention "Quantum Coherent Saturable Absorption for Mid-infrared Ultra-short Pulses."

July 25, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder has been selected to receive an early career travel award to attend The SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (NW14) to be held on August 11-14, 2014 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Funding for this travel award is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (Europe).

July 24, 2014
Two papers titled "Suppression of Spatial Hole-Burning and Sub-Picosecond Pulses from Two-Section Quantum Cascade Lasers," and "Light Management in Tandem Solar Cell With Intermediate Plasmonic Electrode" have been accepted at IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), San Diego, CA, USA, 12-16 October, 2014.

July 20, 2014
A. F. M. Saniul Haq successfully defended his MSc thesis "Analysis of temperature dependence of Nitride-based quantum cascade detectors."

July 20, 2014
Orchi Hassan successfully defended her MSc thesis "Analysis of a multi-color widely tunable quantum cascade laser with multi-segment cavity."

July 07, 2014
Golam Md. Imran Hossain successfully defended his MSc thesis "Study of light trapping in a tandem plasmonic solar cell."

June 28, 2014
Asif Ahmed successfully defended his MSc thesis "Analysis of diffraction grating induced distributed feedback for stable single mode quantum cascade lasers."

June 23, 2014
Our paper titled "Near-infrared induced optical quenching effects on mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers," has been published in Applied Physics Letters.

June 19, 2014
Our paper titled "Quantum coherent saturable absorption for mid-infrared ultra-short pulses," has been published in Optics Express.

April 20, 2014
Dr. Muhammad received Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Gold Medal from Hon'ble Prime Minister for his valuable contributions in the field of nanophotonics, lasers, and quantum electronics.

April 09, 2014
Ministry of Education of the Government of Bangladesh has awared our project proposal "Plasmonic Photovoltaics for Next Generation Solar Cells" a grant of BDT 15,00,000.

March 09, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder has been invited by the organizers to give a talk at the SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, August 11-14, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK.

February 20, 2014
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder gave a talk on "Quantum coherent saturable absorption for mid-infrared ultra-short pulses" at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

November 20, 2013
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder has been invited to participate in the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Winter College on Optics: Fundamentals of Photonics - Theory, Devices and Applications. The event will take place in 10 February - 21 February 2014 in Trieste, Italy.

August 26, 2013
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder has been appointed as an honorary fellow in the department of Electronic and Information Engineering of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

July 17, 2013
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder has been elevated to IEEE senior member grade.

June 14, 2013
Our paper titled "Ultra-short pulses from quantum cascade structures with distributed gain and absorption" has been accepted in IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC 2013), 8-12 September, 2013, Washington, USA.

May 13, 2013
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder gave an invited talk at an IEEE seminar. The title of the talk was "The quantum coherence and a novel approach to create ultra-short pulses in quantum cascade lasers." The seminar was jointly organized be the IEEE Bangladesh Section and the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of BUET.

April 18, 2013
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder has received Erasmus Mundus Strong-Ties Staff Mobility Scholarship to visit and do collaborative research with Prof. Dr. B. M. Azizur Rahman at City University London, UK.

January 19, 2013
Our paper titled "Suppression of spatial hole burning and pulse stabilization for actively modelocked quantum cascade lasers using quantum coherent absorption" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Physics.

January 01, 2013
Our paper titled "Calculation of the microscopic parameters of a self-induced transparency modelocked quantum cascade laser" has been accepted for publication in Optics Communications.

October 10, 2012
We have been awarded BDT 10,00,000 by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of Bangladesh to do research on "Efficient Photovoltaic Energy Conversion for Solar Cells toward Sustainable Future."

September 18, 2012
Papers titled "Gain Recovery Dynamics of Quantum Cascade Lasers," "Quantum Cascade Laser Wavelength Tuning due to Temperature-Dependent Index of Refraction," "Study of Design-Dependent Electroluminescence Linewidth of Quantum Cascade Lasers," and "Quantum Cascade Structures for Efficient Thermo-Photovoltaic Energy Conversion" have been accepted in the Photonics Global Conference 2012, 13-16 December, Singapore.

September 15, 2012
Papers titled "Effect of Temperature on Quantum Cascade Laser Emission as a Function of Cavity Length," "Bias-Dependent Intersubband Electroluminescence Linewidth of Quantum Cascade Lasers," "Bias Dependence of Gain Spectrum and Output Emission Characteristics of Two Phonon Resonance Design Quantum Cascade Lasers," "Intersubband Transition Based Efficient Photovoltaic Energy Conversion," and "Short Pulse Dynamics in Quantum Cascade Lasers" have been accepted in the 2012 7th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2012), 20-22 December, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

August 30, 2012
We have filed a new United States patent application for our invention of "Suppression of Spatial Hole Burning and Stabilization of Active Modelocking in Quantum Cascade Lasers Using Quantum Coherent Absorption."

August 17, 2012
Our research project, entitled "EAGER: Active modelocking of quantum cascade lasers," has been awarded a grant of $47,375 by the National Science Foundation, USA.

August 16, 2012
Papers titled "Gain Recovery Dynamics of Quantum Cascade Lasers," "Quantum Cascade Laser Wavelength Tuning due to Temperature-Dependent Index of Refraction," "Study of Design-Dependent Electroluminescence Linewidth of Quantum Cascade Lasers," and "Quantum Cascade Structures for Efficient Thermo-Photovoltaic Energy Conversion" have been submitted to the Photonics Global Conference 2012, 13-16 December, Singapore.

July 01, 2012
Papers titled "Effect of Temperature on Quantum Cascade Laser Emission as a Function of Cavity Length," "Bias-Dependent Intersubband Electroluminescence Linewidth of Quantum Cascade Lasers," "Bias Dependence of Gain Spectrum and Output Emission Characteristics of Two Phonon Resonance Design Quantum Cascade Lasers," "Intersubband Transition Based Efficient Photovoltaic Energy Conversion," and "Short Pulse Dynamics in Quantum Cascade Lasers" have been submitted to the 2012 7th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2012), 20-22 December, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

June 29, 2012
Our paper "Theoretical Demonstration of Stabilization of Active Modelocking in Quantum Cascade Lasers with Quantum Coherent Absorption" has been accepted in 2012 IEEE Photonics Conference, 23-27 September, San Francisco, CA, USA.

May 26, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder has been promoted to Associate Professor.

April 01, 2012
Our research proposal of "Development of a Sensor Network for Mid-Infrared Technology based Monitoring of the Greenhouse Gases" has been awarded BDT 1,39,99,000.00 under Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh.

March 15, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder visited USA on 23 January 2012 - 10 March 2012 for collaborative research. During his stay in USA, he closely worked with the University of Maryland and the Army Research Laboratory, USA.

December 07, 2011
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder has won the prestigious TWAS 2011 Prize to Young Scientists from Bangladesh. TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, was founded by Nobel Laureate Professor Abdus Salam in Italy. A major objective of TWAS is to recognize and support individual scientists in developing countries who have made excellent contributions to the advancement of science, measured in terms of the number and impact of scientific research papers published in internationally recognized journals.

December 05, 2011
Three papers titled "Effect of temperature on quantum cascade laser emission wavelength as a function of cavity length," "Stabilization of active modelocking with absorption in quantum cascade lasers," and "Gain recovery dynamics of quantum cascade lasers" have been submitted to the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2012), San Jose, CA, USA (2012).

September 07, 2011
Our recently published article, "Temperature-dependent coherent carrier transport in quantum cascade lasers", in New Journal of Physics, Vol 13, pp083027 (2011), has been downloaded 250 times so far. This was achieved in 13 days from the date of publication. To put this into context, across all IOP journals 10% of articles were accessed over 250 times this quarter. You can link directly to the article at: http://stacks.iop.org/1367-2630/13/083027.

August 27, 2011
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder will serve as the technical secretary of the International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2012) to be held in December 2012 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

July 25, 2011
The paper titled "Temperature-dependent coherent carrier transport in quantum cascade lasers," has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics.

May 15, 2011
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder has been awarded a United States Patent on May 10, 2011 for his invention of "Passively Modelocked Quantum Cascade Lasers."

April 29, 2011
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder will visit USA on 01 May - 13 May due to research purpose. During this visit he will attend and present two papers in the Conference on Lasers and ELectro-Optics (CLEO 2011), Baltimore, MD, USA (2011). He will also exchange research ideas with the collaborators and work with Prof. Menyuk's group.

April 27, 2011
The paper titled "Temperature-sensitive gain recovery dynamics of quantum cascade lasers" has been accepted in the International Conference on Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells (ITQW 2011), Sardina, Italy (2011).

April 16, 2011
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder teaches EEE 6503 LASER THEORY in the April 2011 Semester. This course is offered for MSc and PhD students in the Department of EEE, BUET.

March 26, 2011
Recently published paper in the Journal of Applied Physics "Modeling of gain recovery of quantum cascade lasers," has been selected for publication in the March 2011 issue of the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.

March 19, 2011
A paper titled "Temperature-sensitive gain recovery dynamics of quantum cascade lasers" has been submitted to the International Conference on Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells (ITQW 2011), Sardina, Italy (2011).

March 15, 2011
Orchi Hassan, Rafatul Faria, Md. Shahadat Hassan Sohel, Asif Ahmed, and Fariah Hayee have joined the Nanophotonics research group. All of the new members are 4th year undergraduate students of the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Welcome Orchi, Rafatul, Shahadat, Asif, and Fariah!!!

February 24, 2011
Both the submitted papers titled "Gain to absorption ratio of self-induced transparency modelocked quantum cascade lasers" and "Inefficient coherent carrier transport in quantum cascade lasers at high temperature" have been accepted in the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2011), Baltimore, USA (2011).

February 22, 2011
Dr. Talukder will teach EEE 209 Engineering Electromagnetics in the February 2011 semester for the second year undergraduate students.

January 30, 2011
Mehjabin Sultana Monjur, a graduate student of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BUET and a Lecturer of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), has joined the Nanophotonics Research Group. Welcome Mehjabin!!!

December 26, 2010
The paper titled "Quantum coherence times in quantum cascade lasers" has been accepted in the conference MIRTHE-IROn-SensorCAT 2011.

December 21, 2010
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder secured the First Position in the "Dr. Fatema Rashid Best Paper Awards" in the International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2010), Dhaka, Bangladesh (2010).

December 15, 2010
The paper titled "Modeling of gain recovery of quantum cascade lasers" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Physics.

December 14, 2010
A paper titled "Calculation of the required ratio of gain to absorbing periods in a self-induced transparency modelocked quantum cascade laser" has been submitted to Applied Physics Letters.

December 07, 2010
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder will give an invited talk on "Quantum coherence and gain recovery dynamics in quantum cascade lasers" at Princeton University on December 08, 2010. [Abstract]

December 06, 2010
A paper titled "Quantum coherence times in quantum cascade lasers" has been submitted to MIRTHE-IROn-SensorCAT Virtual Conference (2011).

December 02, 2010
Two papers titled "Gain to absorption ratio of self-induced transparency modelocked quantum cascade lasers" and "Inefficient coherent carrier transport in quantum cascade lasers at high temperature" have been submitted to the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2011), Baltimore, USA (2011).

November 22, 2010
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder will visit USA on November 24 - December 18 as a Visiting Assistant Professor of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. During this time he will closely work with Prof. Curtis Menyuk's group at UMBC. He will also visit Prof. Claire Gmachl's group at Princeton University and Prof. Franz Kaertner's group at MIT.

October 09, 2010
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder has been offered Visiting Assistant Professor position at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

September 30, 2010
A paper titled "Modeling of gain recovery of quantum cascade lasers" has been submitted to the Journal of Applied Physics.

September 29, 2010
A paper titled "Temperature-dependent coherent carrier transport in quantum cascade lasers" has been submitted to the New Journal of Physics.

September 03, 2010
The paper "Role of coherence time on carrier transport of quantum cascade lasers" has been accepted in Photonics Global Conference (PGC 2010), Singapore (2010).

August 31, 2010
The paper "Gain recovery modeling of quantum cascade lasers" accepted in the International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2010), Dhaka, Bangladesh (2010).

August 16, 2010
Muktadir Rahman, a student of the Department of EEE, BUET, joined the research group. Welcome Muktadir!!!

August 04, 2010
Our US patent application "Passively Mode locked Quantum Cascade Lasers" (U.S. 12/686,646) has been published (2010-0177798). A copy is available here .

May 24, 2010
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder rejoined the Department of EEE, BUET as an Assistant Professor.

May 20, 2010
Dr. Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder presented the paper "Self-induced transparency modelocking with saturable nonlinearity and group velocity dispersion" at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2010), San Jose, California, USA.