Prof. Ravindra Kumar Sinha obtained M. Sc. (Physics) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, in 1984, and Ph.D. degree in the area of Fiber Optics and Optical Communication Technology from the IIT, Delhi, India, in 1990. He had held research and academic positions at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, REC (now NIT) Hamirpur H.P., Delhi College of Engineering- DCE, University of Delhi and Delhi Technological University-DTU, Delhi. Currently, he is a Professor of Applied Physics and Chief Coordinator of TIFAC- Center of Relevance and Excellence in Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (Mission REACH Program of Technology Vision 2020, Govt. of India) at Delhi Technological University Delhi since October 2002.