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Three academic laboratories; General Photonics Laboratory, Advanced Photonics Laboratory – I and Advanced Photonics Laboratory – II had been established for the training of MSc (Photonics) and PG Diploma Students. These laboratories along with research laboratories will provide students very wide exposure and in hand experience in dealing with optical instruments, sensitive and delicate optics, Lasers (Low-High Power), Various Optical and spectroscopic techniques with applications. The experimental sets up installed in various laboratories are listed below;

General Photonics Laboratory ( first semester)
• Training on Optics handling procedures.
• Training on Laser safety measures.
• Diffraction of laser beam.
• Laser beam characterization.
• Michelson interferometer.
• Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
• Laser induced fluorescence.
• Opto-electronic devices.
• UV-Visible spectrometer.
• FTIR-spectrometer.

Advanced Photonics-I (second semester)
• Refractive index and critical angle measurement.
• Bending loss measurement.
• Numerical Aperture Measurement.
• Optical Fiber Communication.
• Malus Law and Brewster’s angle measurement.
• Faraday Effect.
• Zeeman Effect.
• Fabry-Perot Interferometer.
• UV lithography

Advanced Photonics-II (Third semester)
• Pockel Effect
• Ellipsometer
• Holography
• Ultrasonic diffraction
• Speckle Interferometry.
• Optical Tweezers
• Optical Tweezers coupled with Raman Spectroscopy
• Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
• Kerr Lens Mode locking