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1 UNIVERSITY OF KOTA, KOTA Title Prof. First Name Designation Address K. P. Last Name Professor (Retd.) Phone No. Office Department of Pure & Applied Physics University of Kota, Near Kabir Circle, Kota Rajasthan, India Mobile Educational Qualifications Maheshwari Degree Institution Year Ph.D. University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 1979 Title: Nonlinear Interactions of Lasers with Plasmas M.Sc. (Physics) Agra University, Agra 1962 Career Profile PG teaching: 42 Years Research: 37 Years Photograph Professor & Head, School of Physics, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Dean, Faculty of Science, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Visiting Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan ( ) Director, College Development, Council, D.A. University, Indore. President, Indian Physics Association, Indore Chapter ( ) Member, Executive Council, DAVV-Indore Member, NAAC, Bangalore, Chief-Warden- DAVV-Hostels, PI-DST Project, V. M. O. U. Kota, 2007-Cont. Guest faculty: Physics Department, University of Kota, Kota Area of Interest/ Specialization Relativistic plasma microwave devices: High power microwave generation from relativistic electron beam interaction with slow-wave structure, Cherenkov radiation from IREB driven slow-wave structures. Fast-wave devices ( FELs, gyrotrons)

2 Developed Marx generator giving 300 kev, 2 ka, 100ns electron beam generation. Set up first BWO experiment in the country giving 5 MW, 8-11 GHz microwave output. Theoretical studies of ultrashort, ultra-intense, laser-plasma interaction, highharmonic generation, attosecond pulse generation, wake-field acceleration of charged particles, self-focusing of laser beams. Free electron lasers Theoretical investigation of laser induced sound generation, under-water acoustics. Subject Taught in PG: Fourier optics Advanced quantum mechanics, Plasma physics, Classical electrodynamics, Classical mechanics, Statistical physics, Quantum electrodynamics Research Guide: Ph..D. : 12, M.Sc. / M.Phil/ M. Tech Projects : 45 Publication Profile Research Papers/Books published: 1. Harish Malav, K. P. Maheshwari, R. S. Meghwal, Y. Choyal and Rakesh sharma: Analytical and numerical investigation of diffraction effects on the nonlinear propagation of ultra-intense few-cycle optical pulses in plasmas: J. Plasma Physics, 76, , (2010) 2. Harish Malav, K. P. Maheshwari and V. Senecha: Analytical and numerical investigation of pulse shape of intense, few-cycles TM 01 laser on the acceleration of charged particles: Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics, 49, , (2011). 3. Harish Malav, K. P. Maheshwari and Y. Choyal: Analytical and numerical investigation of pulse-shape effect on the interaction of an ultrashort, intense, fewcycle laser pulse with a thin plasma layer: Laser and Particle Beams, 29, 45-54, (2011). 4. Harish Malav, K. P. Maheshwari and Y. Choyal: Analytical and numerical investigation of the pulse-shape effect on the longitudinal electric field of a tightly focused ultrafast few-cycle TM 01 laser beam: Laser and Particle Beams, 30, (2012).

3 5. K. P. Maheshwari, Harish Malav and Vineeta Jain: Analytical and numerical investigation of high-harmonic and attosecond pulse-train generation: the sliding mirror model: (Communicated). 6. Prasad Deshpande, Y. Choyal, K. P. Maheshwari: Universal dispersion relation of an arbitrary wall cylindrical slow-wave structure in presence of finite axial magnetic field : Electromagnetics Y. Choyal, Lalit Gupta, Prasad Deshpande, K. P. Maheshwari, K. C. Mittal & S. C. Bapna: Development of a 2 MW relativistic backward wave oscillator, Pramana- Journal of Physics, Vol 71, pp , Y. Choyal, Lalit Gupta, Preeti Vyas, Prasad Deshpande and K. P. Maheshwari, Development of 300 kv Marx generator and its application to drive a relativistic electron beam SADHNA Journal of engineering,vol.30, part6, pp , December K. Minami, Y. Choyal, M. Saito, K. P. Maheshwari, and V. L. Granatstein, Linear dispersion relation of backward wave oscillator with finite strength axial magnetic field, IEEE transaction on plasma science,vol.30, No.3, pp , June A. Gokhale, P. Vyas, J. Panikar, Y. Choyal, K. P. Maheshwari, Numerical investigation of space charge electric field for a sheet electron beam between two conducting planes, Pramana, 58, 67, P. Vyas, A. Gokhale, Y. Choyal, and K. P. Maheshwari, Linear theory of plasma filled backward wave oscillator, Pramana 56, 625, P. Goswami, S. N. Bhattacharya, A. Sen, and K. P. Maheshwari, Viscous expansion of a non-neutral plasma, Non-neutral plasma physics III, AIP Conference Proceedings 498, Princeton, New Jersey, August 1999, Editors: John J. Bollinger, Ross L. Spencer, Ronald C. Davidson, pp J. Panikar, Y. Choyal, K. P. Maheshwari, and U. Sharma, Space charge electrostatic fields of a beam with the edges having a prescribed density variation, Laser and particle beams, 17, 1, G. Mishra, Sushant Ku. Chhotray, K. P. Maheshwari, Analysis of longitudinal wiggler-undulator radiation with low energy correction effects, Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A419, 91, L. L. Yadav, V. K. Sayal, and K. P. Maheshwari, Thermal nonlinear effects on under water sound generation by laser radiation, J. Sound and Vib. 212, 481, P. Goswami, S. N. Bhattacharya, A. Sen, and K. P. Maheshwari, Stationary modes in a nonneutral plasma, phys. Plasmas, 5, 895, Y. Choyal and K. P. Maheshwari, Efficiency enhancement in Ku band in a plasma filled backward wave oscillator, Physics of Plasmas, 5, 2442, 1998.

4 18. L. L. Yadav, V. K. Sayal, and K. P. Maheshwari, Pulse shape effect on the generation of acoustic signal with pulsed laser in Advan. Las. Spec.& Appl., Eds. H.D. Bist et al., Allied Pubs., New Delhi, 263, L. L. Yadav, V. K. Sayal, and K. P. Maheshwari, Nonlinear theory of laser induced underwater sound wave in Advan. Las. Spec.& Appl., Eds. H. D. Bist et al., Allied Pubs., New Delhi, 259, Y. Choyal and K. P. Maheshwari, Excitation of electromagnetic waves in a relativistic backward wave oscillator with end reflectors, Physics of Plasmas, 2, 319, A. Neogi, K. P. Maheshwari, and M. S. Sodha, Modulational instability in optically strained magnetoactive semiconductors, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 11, M. S. Sodha, S. Konar, M. P. Verma, and K. P. Maheshwari, Theoretical analysis of generation of acoustic waves in water by axially asymmetric laser beams, Indian J. Phys. 68B, 37-46, Y. Choyal and K. P. Maheshwari, Excitation of electromagnetic waves by relativistic electron beam in a plasma filled rippled wall waveguide, Physics of Plasmas, 1, 171, M. S. Sodha, M. Asthana, and K. P. Maheshwari, Relativistic self focusing of laser beams in time harmonic plane wave: arbitrary intensity, J. Plas. Phys., G. Mishra, K. P. Maheshwari, and G. Prabhuram, A slow wave FEL in a longitudinal wiggler field, IEEE Trans. Plas. Sc., 21, 181, R. Sawhney, K. P. Maheshwari, and Y. Choyal, Effect of plasma on efficiency enhancement in a high power relativistic backward wave oscillator, IEEE Trans. Plas. Sc., 21, 609, S. Konar and K. P. Maheshwari Reflection and refraction of a plane electromagnetic wave from a linear/nonlinear nonabsorbing media plane interface, J. Optics, 92, M. S. Sodha, V. Rai, M. P.Verma, S. Konar, and K. P. Maheshwari, Underwater optical generation of sound: oblique incidence, Pramana, 41, 1, K. P. Maheshwari, R. Sawhney, and G. Mishra, Cherenkov-cyclotron interaction in a high-power plasma filled backward wave oscillator, Phys. Rev. A, 45, 5866, M. S. Sodha, S. Konar, and K. P. Maheshwari, Steady-state self-focusing of rippled laser beams in plasmas: arbitrary nonlinearity, J. Plasma, physics, 48, On photon accelerators, Ind. J. Phys., 65A, 547, M. Mishra, P. Rambabu, and K. P. Maheshwari, Optimal successive linearization method to calculate dynamic aperture, Indian J. Phys., 65A, 541, K. P. Maheshwari, R. Sawhney, and R. K. Tiwari, Instability of a rotating electron layer in a vacuum rippled waveguide, Physica Scripta, 44, 490, 1991

5 34. An analytical formalism of photon accelerator, Phys.Rev.A44, R3438, Interaction of IREB with a cavity resonator, Ind. J. Phys. 65A, 537, K. P. Maheshwari, G. Tarey, Stimulated Brillouin scattering of EM wave propagating obliquely in a magnetoactive solid state plasma, phys. stat. sol. (b) 141, 333, K. P. Maheshwari, G. Tarey, Stimulated Raman scattering of an extraordinary mode in a solid state plasma, J. Phys. Chem. Solids 48, 491, K. P. Maheshwari, G. Tarey, Stimulated Raman scattering of an extraordinary mode in a solid state plasma, J. Phys. Chem. Solids 48, 491, K. P. Maheshwari, G. Tarey, Resonant excitation of helicon waves by two microwave beams in a solid state plasma, phys. stat. sol. (b) 133, 417, K. Minami, O. Kobayashi, K. P. Maheshwari, and A. Miyazaki, Quantitative measurement of the electromagnetic field excited by a relativistic electron beam passing through a cylindrical cavity, Jap. J. Appl. Phys. 22, 1449, K. P. Maheshwari and K. Minami, Excitation of electromagnetic fields in a cavity by a high-density intense relativistic electron beam with finite radius. Jap. J. Nuclear Fusion, 50, 189, K. P. Maheshwari, G. Tarey, and R. P. Sharma, Collisional absorption of intense electromagnetic radiation propagating in extraordinary mode, Proc. Indian natn, Sci. Acad., 49, A, , K. P. Maheshwari, and G. Tarey, Excitation of magnetoacoustic waves by two microwave beams in InSb, phys. stat. sol. (b) 116, 339, K. P. Maheshwari, and G. Tarey, Excitation of ion cyclotron waves at the different frequency of two microwave beams in a semiconductor, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 44, 463, K. P. Maheshwari, G. Tarey, R. K. Tiwari, and R. P. Sharma Absorption of intense Gaussian electromagnetic radiation in a magnetoplasma via inverse bremsstrahlung, Proc. Indian natn, Sci. Acad., 48, A, , K. P. Maheshwari and G. Tarey R. K. Tiwari, and S. C. Kaushik, Magnetic field enhancement of self focusing of laser beams in a degenerate nonparabolic semiconductor: kinetic approach, J. Phys. Chem. Solids 41, 81-86, M. S. Sodha, S. C. Kaushik, R. P. Sharma, and K. P. Maheshwari Resonant excitation of the upper hybrid wave by two EM beams, J. Appl. Phys. 50, 1256, M. S. Sodha, R. P. Sharma, and K. P. Maheshwari Thomson scattering of EM pulses by random fluctuations in plasmas: effect of self focusing, J. Appl. Phys. 49, 4383, 1978.

6 49. K. P. Maheshwari, S.C.Kaushik, and R.P.Sharma, Self-focusing and filamentation of laser beam in an axially inhomogeneous magneto plasma, Optik, 52, 139, M. S. Sodha, S. C. Kaushik, R. P. Sharma, and K. P. Maheshwari, Enhancement of self focusing of laser beams in a degenerate magnetoactive solid state plasma, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 38, 1197, BOOKS: 1. Laser Optics, Editors: Raj Kamal, K. P. Maheshwari, and R.L. Sawhney, Wiley Eastern Ltd. New Delhi Plasma Physics, Editors: Raj Kamal, K. P. Maheshwari, and R.L. Sawhney, Wiley Eastern Ltd. New Delhi Solar Energy and Energy Conservation, Editors: Raj Kamal, K. P. Maheshwari, and R.L. Sawhney, Wiley Eastern Ltd. New Delhi Contemporary Plasma Physics, Editors: M.S. Sodha and K. P. Maheshwari, Wiley Eastern Ltd. New Delhi 1992 Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration): DRDO sponsored Research project on HPM generation by RBWO: 50.0 lakhs DAE sponsored NLP project for starting M.Tech academic programme: 70.0 lakhs BRNS research project on the development of Marx and IREB generation: 13.0 lakhs. DOE sponsored research project on under water acoustics by laser; 20,0 lakhs DST supported project on high harmonic generation by ultra-intense laser-solid interaction. Association with Professional Bodies Memberships Plasma Science Society Of India : Life member Indian Laser Association: Life Member Indian Physics Association: life Member Indian association of Physics Teachers : Life member VEDA Society : life Member ( Fellow ) Other Activities Innovative course developed: Started in 1995, a 2-years M. Tech course in laser science & applications (for the first time in the country) at DAVV- Indore. The course was supported by BRNS, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. More than 150 students have graduated in this high-tech area and are employed in India and abroad. I was the principal investigator for this project supported by DAE, Government of India.