The thrust areas of research at the department are Nanobiophotonics, Ceramics, Nanophosphors, Thin films, SERS, Fiber Optics, Laser applications - photothermal spectroscopy, speckle interferometry, LIBS, Nonlinear Optics, pulsed laser deposition, and theory – fractals, time series analysis, graph theory. The research output is evident from the 650 peer reviewed, scopus/WoS indexed journal papers.
The research output is evident from 978 conference papers.
The department has filed four patent applications, and one patent is awarded in 2022.
The department has published 5 books with ISBN number