Strategic Sector
Ultimate and Local Control of Photon and Applications
Research Supervisor
Tatsuo Izawa(Executive Vice President for Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Year Started
2005
Outline
This research area is aiming to create innovative science and technologies in Photonics and Quantum Optics including light source, detectors, and light control technologies for material science, life science, information processing and communications. It covers, for example, the researches of quantum dot, photonic crystal and nonlinear optics for information processing, communications and measurement technologies. The control technologies of atoms and molecules, chemical reaction control by light, the observation and measurement of living body, the development of new light sources and detectors for industrial and medical applications, ultra-fine processing technologies and file memories using evanescent wave, and the related material science are also included.
Year Started : 2007
Jun Ohta
Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Kazuo Kadowaki
Professor, University of Tsukuba
Hideki Hashimoto
Professor, Osaka City University
Hideki Hirayama
Team Leader, RIKEN
Noriaki Miyanaga
Professor, Osaka University
Year Started : 2006
Ryosuke Kodama
Professor, Osaka University
Makoto Kuwata- Gonokami
Professor, The University of Tokyo
Toshihiko Baba
Professor, Yokohama National University
Takashi Matsuoka
Professor, Tohoku University
Kenjiro Miyano
Professor, The University of Tokyo
Shuntaro Watanabe
Professor, The University of Tokyo
Year Started : 2005
Katsumi Kishino
Professor, Sophia University
Ikuo Suemune
Professor, Hokkaido University
Susumu Noda
Professor, Kyoto University
Hirokazu Hori
Professor, University of Yamanashi
Mikio Yamashita
Specially Appointed Professor/ Emeritus Professor, Hokkaido University
