Our two PhD Scholars - Mr. Gopal Prasad Sahu (Supervisor: Professor Kavita Devi) and Ms. Harsha Miriam Reji (Supervisor: Dr. R. Prabhu) - from the Department of Physics, IIT Dharwad, have emerged as the winners of the Best Paper/Best Poster in the competition held at the 16th edition of the International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, PHOTONICS – 2024 (www.photonics2024.in), which was organized at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, during the period 12th-15th December 2024.