ARIJIT MISRA is a skilled Research & Development Engineer specializing in optical transceivers at Cisco. Previously, ARIJIT served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at RWTH Aachen University and as a Graduate Researcher at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Additionally, ARIJIT worked as a Research Assistant (DST Inspire Scholar) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. ARIJIT holds a PhD in Optics/Photonics from Technische Universität Braunschweig, obtained in March 2022, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Physics at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, since June 2015.