Area of Expertise : Development of optical and IR instruments for both space and ground application. Areas of interest/working: Optomechanical design, Finite element analysis applied to optomechanical and structural designs. Associated in Mechanical design of UVIT-onboard ASTROSAT. Currently engaged in, VLEC-onboard ADITYA to be placed in L1 orbit, Celestial navigation system development, Development of National Large Optical Telescope (NLOT)

Selected Publicatins (s)

1. A novel approach to reduce optical aberrations by using deformable bushes at opto-mechanical interfacesS. Nagabhushana, Suresh Nagesh and B. Raghavendra Prasad
2. Contamination control of UVITS.Kathiravan, S. N. Tadon, B.Raghavendra Prasad, S. Sri-ram, A.Pradeep, T.Vishnu, P.K. Mahesh, P.U.Kamath, S. Nagabhu-shana & Amit Kumar
3. Additional Calibration of the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope on board AstroSatS.N. Tandon, J. Postma, P. Joseph, A. Devaraj, A Subramaniam, I. V. Barve, K. George, S. K. Ghosh, V. Girish, J. B. Hutchings, P. U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan, A. Kumar, J. P. Lancelot, D. Leahy, P.K. Mahesh, R. Mo-han, S.Nagabhushana, A. K. Pati, N. Kameswar
4. In-orbit Calibrations of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope2. S. N. Tandon, Annapurni Subramaniam, V. Girish, J. Postma, K. San-karasubramanian, S. Sriram, C. S. Stalin, C. Mondal, S. Sahu, P. Joseph, J. Hutchings, S. K. Ghosh, I. V. Barve, K. George, P. U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan, A. Kumar, J. P. Lancelot, D. Leah
5. Visible Emission Line Coronagraph on Aditya-L11. B. Raghavendra Prasad, Dipankar Banerjee, Jagdev Singh, S. Nagabhushana, Amit Kumar, P. U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan, Suresh Venkata, N. Rajkumar, V. Natarajan1, Madhur Juneja, Pawan Somu, Vaibhav Pant, Nigar Shaji, K. Sankarsubramanian, Asit Patra, R. Ven
6. In-orbit performance of UVIT on ASTROSATAnnapurni Subramaniam, Shyam N. Tandon, John Hutchings, Swarna K. Ghosh, Koshy George, V. Girish, P. U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan, Amit Kumar, J. Paul Lancelot, P. K. Mahesh, Rekhesh Mohan, Jayant Murthy, S. Nagabhushana, Ashok K. Pati, Joe Postma, N. Kameswa
7. Tests and calibration on ultra violet imaging telescope (UVIT)Amit Kumar, S. K. Ghosh, P. U. Kamath, Joe Postma, S. Kathiravan, P. K. Mahesh, S. Nagbhushana, K. H. Navalgund, N. Rajkumar, M. N. Rao, K. S. Sarma, S. Sriram, C. S. Stalin, S. N. Tandon
8. Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on ASTROSATAmit Kumar, S. K. Ghosh, J. Hutchings, P. U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan, P. K. Mahesh, J. Murthy, S. Nagbhushana, A. K. Pati, M. N. Rao, N. K. Rao, S. Sriram, S. N. Tandon
9. Proposed visible emission line space solar coronagraphJagdev Singh, B. Raghavendra Prasad, P. Venkatakrishnan, K. Sankarasubramanian, Dipankar Banerjee, Raja Bayanna, Shibu Mathew, Jayant Murthy, Prasad Subramaniam, R. Ramesh, S. Kathiravan, S. Nagabhushana, P. K. Mahesh, P. K. Manoharan, Wahab Uddin
10. Prototype segmented mirror telescope: a pathfinder of India's Large Optical-NIR telescope projectPadmakar Parihar, Prasanna Deshmukh, Annu Jacob, Varun Kumar, Abhishek Goudar, S. Sriram, S. Nagabhusan, S. Amitkumar, K. V. Govinda, D. S. Sandeep, P. M. M. Kemkar, G. C. Anupama,