Dr. Ranju Mahajan

Assistant Professor

Dr. Ranju Mahajan did her Masters degree  (M.Sc. Hons. School)  in  Physics from Department of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar in 2006 and Doctorate in Plasma Physics from Deptt. of Physics, G.N.D.U. Amritsar on the topic “Theoretical Investigations of propagation characteristics of high power laser/electromagnetic beams in a plasma” in 2013. She got a minor research project on “Theoretical Investigations of Nonlinear Evolution of cosh-Gaussian Laser Beams In Different Media” in 2015. She has 7 years of teaching experience.

7 Years in Teaching

 Laser-Plasma-Interactions, Nonlinear Dynamics

M.Sc (Hons), Ph.D.

Publication Details

Research Papers: 

  1. “Relativistic and ponderomotive effects on evolution of laser beam in a non-uniform plasma channel” Laser and Part. Beams 28, 11-20 (2010). Impact factor: 4.56. 
  1. “Relativistic and ponderomotive effects on evolution of dark hollow Gaussian electromagnetic beams in a plasma” Laser and Part. Beams 28, 521-529 (2010). Impact factor: 4.56. 
  1. “Relativistic self-focusing of super-Gaussian laser beam in plasma with transverse magnetic field” Laser and Part. Beams 30, 509-516 (2012). Impact factor: 4.56. 
  1. “Self-focusing of cosh-Gaussian laser beam in a plasma with weakly relativistic and ponderomotive regime” Physics of Plasmas 18, 033110(1-8) (2011). Impact factor: 2.6. 
  1. “Propagation of high power electromagnetic beam in relativistic magnetoplasma: Higher order paraxial ray theory” Physics of Plasmas 17, 093101 (2010). Impact factor: 2.6. 
  1. “Nonlinear dynamics of intense EM pulses in plasma” JPCS:IOP  208, 012087 (2010). Impact factor: 1.
  1. “Self-focusing, self modulation and stability properties of laser beam propagating in plasma: A variational approach” JPCS:IOP  208, 012086 (2010). Impact factor: 1.          
  1. “Steady state self-focusing, self-modulation of laser beam in an inhomogeneous plasma” Optik 122, 375-380 (2011). Impact factor: 1.
  1. “Relativistic self-focusing and self-phase modulation of cosh-Gaussian laser beam in magnetoplasma” Laser and Part. Beams 29, 183-191 (2011). Impact factor: 4.56.
  1. “Interaction between parallel Gaussian electromagnetic beams in a plasma with weakly relativistic-ponderomotive regime” Optik 124, 2686-2690 (2013). Impact factor: 1.
  1. “Interaction between parallel Gaussian electromagnetic beams in relativistic magnetoplasma” Optics Communications 289, 127-130 (2013).   Impact factor:1.
  1. “Self-focusing of super-Gaussian laser beam in magnetized plasma under relativistic and ponderomotive regime” Optik  126, 1683-1690 (2015). Impact factor: 1.
  1. “Relativistic effects on evolution of a q-Gaussian laser beam in magnetoplasma: Application of higher order corrections” Physics of Plasmas 24, 053105 (2017).   Impact factor:93.
  1. “Stability and dynamics of cosh-Gaussian laser beam in relativistic thermal quantum plasma” Laser and Particle Beams 36, 341-352 (2018). Impact factor: 1.3.
  1. “Relativistic ponderomotive self-focusing of quadruple Gaussian laser beam in cold quantum plasma” Laser and Particle Beams 36, 353-358 (2018). Impact factor: 1.3.