| Faculty | Research Interests |
| Anil Prabhakar | Optical Devices and Instruments |
| Quantum Optics |
| Fibre Lasers |
| Magnonics |
| Balaji Srinivasan | Optical Components |
| Fiber Optic Sensors |
| Optical Wireless and Communications |
| Harishankar Ramachandran | Optical Link Design and Planning |
| Nonlinear Optics |
| Computational Optics |
| Bijoy K Das | Integrated Optics |
| Silicon Photonics |
| Shanti Bhattacharya | Interferometry |
| Diffractive Optical Elements (DOEs) |
| Design of Optical MEMS for telecommunications and sensors |
| R. Manivasakan | Optical Metro networks. |
| Wireless backhaul networks. |
| Performance of optical networks in general. |
| Deepa Venkitesh | Nonlinear optics |
| Fibre lasers |
| Slow light |
| Ananth Krishnan | Sensors |
| Plasmonics |
| Microscopy |
| Computational Electromagnetics |
| Uday K Khankhoje | Inverse Imaging |
| Microwave Remote Sensing |
| Computational Electromagnetics |
| Pramitha V | Design and Fabrication of Photonic Devices for manipulation of light |
| Light matter - interaction |
| Flexible optoelectronic devices using graphene-based systems |
| Holography |