1952                        Institute established

1969                        PG (M.Sc. Applied Physics) started

1989-90                 MHRD Grant (10 Lakhs + 5 Lakhs) recd. for Laser Technology

1994                       AICTE approved M.Tech (Optoelectronics) 

1994                       DAE-NLP Granted ~ 60.00 Lakhs for M.Tech (Optoelectronics)

1995                      1st Batch of M.Tech (Optoelectronics) admitted

1990-2002           Grants received ~ 150 Lakhs from DAE-NLP, DAE-BRNS, 
                          AICTE, CSIR, DST and UGC.

1998 ONWARDS        National and International Collaborations with CAT, BARC 
                                    and Humboldt University, Berlin

2002-2004 

1.  Proposed Center for Photonics?under World Bank Project 
    on TEQIP
2.  M. Tech. (Optoelectronics) Accredited by NBA (AICTE) for 5 
   years from Sept. 2003

The only programme accredited for 5 years in the institute