Bilde av Jayakumar, Nikhil
Bilde av Jayakumar, Nikhil
Postdoc / Ultrasound, Microwaves and Optics Department of Physics and Technology nikhil.jayakumar@uit.no Tromsø You can find me here

Nikhil Jayakumar


Job description

One of my current interests is in developing label-free optical microscopes. The emphasis is on circumventing the diffraction limit and improving the detection sensitivity. To achieve this, optical waveguides, concepts of interferometry etc. are being employed.  


  • Nikhil Jayakumar, Firehun Tsige Dullo, Vishesh Kumar Dubey, Azeem Ahmad, Florian Ströhl, Jennifer Cauzzo et al.:
    Multi-moded high-index contrast optical waveguide for super-contrast high-resolution label-free microscopy
    Nanophotonics 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Azeem Ahmad, Nikhil Jayakumar, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia :
    Demystifying speckle field interference microscopy
    Scientific Reports 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Azeem Ahmad, Vishesh Dubey, Nikhil Jayakumar, Anowarul Habib, Ankit Butola, Mona Nystad et al.:
    High-throughput spatial sensitive quantitative phase microscopy using low spatial and high temporal coherent illumination
    Scientific Reports 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jennifer Cauzzo, Nikhil Jayakumar, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, Azeem Ahmad, Natasa Skalko-Basnet :
    Characterization of Liposomes Using Quantitative Phase Microscopy (QPM)
    Pharmaceutics 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Nikhil Jayakumar, Azeem Ahmad, Dalip Singh Mehta, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia :
    Sampling moiré method: a tool for sensing quadratic phase distortion and its correction for accurate quantitative phase microscopy
    Optics Express 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Nikhil Jayakumar, Øystein I. Helle, Krishna Agarwal, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia :
    On-chip TIRF nanoscopy by applying Haar wavelet kernel analysis on intensity fluctuations induced by chip illumination
    Optics Express 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Matteo Boninsegna, Nikhil Jayakumar, Firehun Tsige Dullo, Peter Anthony McCourt, Thomas Rolf Huser, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia et al.:
    Waveguide chip coupled with microfluidics enables super-resolution live-cell imaging
    Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering 2020 DOI
  • Nikhil Jayakumar, Vishesh Kumar Dubey, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, Azeem Ahmad :
    Deciphering dynamic speckle illumination interference microscopy
    2023
  • Nikhil Jayakumar, Firehun Tsige Dullo, Vishesh Kumar Dubey, Azeem Ahmad, Florian Ströhl, Jennifer Cauzzo et al.:
    Erratum: Multi-moded high-index contrast optical waveguide for super-contrast high-resolution label-free microscopy (Nanophotonics DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0500.pdf)
    Nanophotonics 2022 DOI
  • Azeem Ahmad, Vishesh Kumar Dubey, Nikhil Jayakumar, Mona Nystad, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia :
    Deciphering dynamic speckle illumination interference microscopy and its applications
    Spie Bios 2022
  • Nikhil Jayakumar :
    Label-free imaging with superior contrast and resolution
    2021
  • Nikhil Jayakumar, Firehun Tsige Dullo, Vishesh Kumar Dubey, Azeem Ahmad, Jennifer Cauzzo, Eduarda Mazagao Guerreiro et al.:
    Label-free imaging on waveguide platform with enhanced resolution and contrast
    2021 ARKIV
  • Sebastian Andres Acuña Maldonado, Nikhil Jayakumar, Zicheng Liu, Krishna Agarwal, Deanna Wolfson :
    nanoRIP
    2020
  • Azeem Ahmad, Nikhil Jayakumar, Ankit Butola, Vishesh Kumar Dubey, Dalip Singh Mehta, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia :
    High space-bandwidth product with high spatial phase sensitivity in single-shot digital holographic microscopy
    2019

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    Research interests

    Optical microscopy, optical waveguides, interferometry, quantum optics, non-linear optics


    Member of research group


    CV

    Ph.D. thesis titled ''Label-free super-resolution optical microscopy'' (https://hdl.handle.net/10037/32703)

    M.Sc. thesis titled ''Polarization evolution in anti-resonant hollow core fibers''

     

     


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