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Photonics and Quantum Optics for the Creation of Innovative Functions

Research Supervisor: Tatsuo Izawa
Affiliation: 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.

Strategic Sector

Ultimate and Local Control of Photon and Applications

Research Projects

Year Started : 2007
Research Director	Affiliation	Research Project
Jun Ohta	Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology	Development of Biomedical Photonic LSIs
Kazuo Kadowaki	Professor, University of Tsukuba	Emission of Continuous THz Waves by Making Use of Superconductors and Its Applications
Hideki Hashimoto	Professor, Osaka City University	Functional Control of the Primary Process of Photosynthesis in Nano Space
Hideki Hirayama	Team Leader, RIKEN	Development of 230-350nm Band InAlGaN-based High-efficiency Deep-UV Emitting Devices
Noriaki Miyanaga	Professor, Osaka University	Adaptive Power Photonics

Year Started : 2006
Research Director	Affiliation	Research Project
Ryosuke Kodama	Professor, Osaka University	High Energy Density Plasma Photonics
Makoto Kuwata- Gonokami	Professor, The University of Tokyo	Active Meso-optics based on Dynamical Spatio-temporal Control of Molphology
Toshihiko Baba	Professor, Yokohama National University	Photonic Nanostructure Active Functional Devices and Their Integration
Takashi Matsuoka	Professor, Tohoku University	Research on InN Semiconductor Laser Diodes with High Temperature-Stability for Optical Communication Systems
Kenjiro Miyano	Professor, The University of Tokyo	Bilateral Control of Electrons and Light through Electron Correlation
Shuntaro Watanabe	Professor, The University of Tokyo	Development of the Technique to Steer Electrons by the Ultrahigh Optical Field

Year Started : 2005
Research Director	Affiliation	Research Project
Katsumi Kishino	Professor, Sophia University	New Evolution of Nitride Semiconductor Lasers Based on Nanocolumn Crystals
Ikuo Suemune	Professor, Hokkaido University	Creation of Superconducting Photonics and Its Applications
Susumu Noda	Professor, Kyoto University	Development of Ultimate Light-Emission Technology Based on Photonic Crystals
Hirokazu Hori	Professor, University of Yamanashi	Creation and Simulation of Optoelectronics Function in Nanometer Space
Mikio Yamashita	Specially Appointed Professor/ Emeritus Professor, Hokkaido University	Creation of New Quantum Optical Technology by Controlling Electric-field Waveform of Optical Pulses with an Extremely Short Duration

Research Area Website: http://www.photonics.jst.go.jp/en/index.html