Shib Shankar Bhattacharyya

 Professor  & Head

Telephone : 91-33-473-4971 (Ext –205) Office
: 91-33-425-9762 Residence
Fax : 91-33-473-2805
Email : msssb [ At ] iacs.res.in

Born 15th November, 1950. Ph.D. in 1977 from IACS on the theory of molecular collisions.
Post-Doctoral work in the University of Newcastle-upon Tyne, U.K.
After joining IACS, as a member of the research staff (1981), initiated theoretical work on various aspects of laser molecule interaction.

National Science Talent Search Scholar
Guest scientist in NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, in 1993.
Published 53 papers in various international journals.
Life member, Indian Society of Atomic & Molecular Physics.

Current Research Interests

  • Intense field processes in atoms and molecules,
  • Light scattering
  • Laser control of molecular dynamics

    • Some recent publications:

    1. Effects of chirping on the dissociation dynamics of H2 in a two-frequency laser field, 
    Avijit Datta, S. S. Bhattacharyya and Bongsoo Kim; 
    Phys. Rev. A In Press (2002) 
    2.  Alignment in angular distribution of photofragments in multiphoton above threshold dissociation of HD+ by linearly and circularly polarized intense laser fields,
    Sanjay Sen, Swaralipi Ghosh, S. S. Bhattacharyya and Samir Saha; 
    J. Chem. Phys. 116 1286-95 (2002) 
    3.  Rotational branching in population transfer in H2 by Chirped Adiabatic Raman Passage, 
    Swaralipi Ghosh, Sanjay Sen, S. S. Bhattacharyya and Samir Saha ; 
    J. Chem. Phys. 116 581-8 (2002) 
    4. Polarization and intensity effects in two-photon dissociation of H2 in two-frequency laser fields,
    Avijit Datta and S. S. Bhattacharyya; 
    Phys. Rev. A  63 023410  (2001) 
    5. Polarization effects on population transfer in H2 by stimulated Raman transition with partially overlapping laser pulses,
    Swaralipi Ghosh, Sanjay Sen, S. S. Bhattacharyya and Samir Saha; 
    Pramana, 54 827-844 (2000)
    6.  Resonance enhanced two-photon dissociation of H2 through nonadiabatically coupled intermediate and final states,
    A. Datta, S. Saha, and S. S. Bhattacharyya; 
    Phys. Rev. A 60 1324-35 (1999)

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