Abstract
The fist documented speculations on light were found in oriental and Greek schools of philosophy. The investigations on the light in India were rooted way back to the ancient era. The Indian Samkhya, Nyaya, and Vaisheshika identified light or fie (Tejas) as one of the key elements among the fie elementary things of the universe. The pioneering results of optics and spectroscopy were witnessed in the era of stellar people like Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose and Sir C V Raman. The research has then taken a new directive into the development of nonlinear optics and photonics after the invention of the laser. The present article reviews the past few decades pioneering works of Prof. D Narayana Rao, an experimental physicist, in the context of optics and photonics in India. The most notable contributions of Prof Rao, introduced in India for the fist time, are white-light interferometry, degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM), electric field induced second harmonic generation (EFISHG), incoherent laser spectroscopy (using dye laser), and femtosecond lasers for creating nano/microstructures.
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