News

Lab members enjoyed an overnight ski trip in Yuzawa, Nigata prefecture.

On the 7th of March members of Yamashita-Set Lab attended a talk and Q and A session given by 2018 Nobel Laureate Dr. Donna Strickland. The event was hosted by the University of Electro-Communications Optica student chapter. We thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to meet such a distinguished researcher and thank both Dr. Strickland and the UEC Optica chapter for making this event possible.

Lab members visited Automotive World, advanced automotive technology show

Assoc. Prof. Set Sze Yun and doctoral student Naoki Yamaguchi visited the head office of SCREEN Holdings in Kyoto, where Prof. Set gave an invited talk. They also visited Noda Lab at Kyoto University.

Congratulations to doctoral student Naoki Yamaguchi for winning 3rd place for best student paper at IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), held in Vancouver, Canada.

Yamaguchi-san’s winning paper was titled “Coherent Doppler LiDAR using Novel MEMS-based Optical Phased Array Scanner”.

The Optica student chapter was proud to host Prof. Amr Helmy, who presented an excellent talk on hybridization in plasmonic devices.

In proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2022 have now become available. Our group’s works can be accessed using the links below:

• Novel Data-Processing Method for High-Accuracy Spectrally Steered LiDAR using Dispersion-Tuned Swept Laser
• All-Optical 25-Gbps Silicon Carbide Kerr Switching Intensity Modulator On Silicon Platform
• All Polarization-Maintaining Wavelength-Tunable Femtosecond Pulse Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Based on Strain Controlled Lyot-Filter
• Reduction of Noise in a Passively Harmonic Mode-locked Fiber Laser by Optimizing Cavity Length
• Coherent Doppler Lidar for Improved Object Velocimetry using Dual Measurement Fusion
• Orthogonally-Polarized Bi-directional Dual-Comb Fiber Laser

Professor  Sze Y, Set has been elected as one of the IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturers for 2022-2023.  The IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Program was designed to honor excellent speakers who have made technical, industrial or entrepreneurial contributions to the field of photonics and to enhance the technical programs of the IEEE Photonics Society Chapters, presenting plenary style lectures to as many audiences as possible across the world.

Prof. Set’s lecture will be titled ‘Nano-Carbon Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers.’  Further details can be found at www.photonicssociety.org.

Also, please see here for more information on the Distinguished Lecturer Program.

We are pleased to announce the publishing of Professor Yamashita’s new book: Optoelectronics for Fiber Optic Communications and Measurement. It covers everything from the basics of fiber communications and measurement to in-depth analysis of the physical principles behind optical waveguides, optical fiber, lasers, and much more. The book is available in a variety of locations and websites, so please do enjoy!

The CLEO conference is where leading researchers from around the world present key innovations they have recently made in a variety of fields. This year the Yamshita-Set lab have several of our researchers making presentations you will not want to miss. Here is a comprehensive list of both our oral and poster presentations:

Poster Presentations

1. All-Optical 25-Gbps Silicon Carbide Kerr Switching Intensity Modulator On Silicon Platform by Chih-Hsien Cheng, Cai-Syuan Fu, Sze Yun Set, Shinji Yamashita and Gong-Ru Lin
2. Reduction of Noise in a Passively Harmonic Mode-locked Fiber Laser by Optimizing Cavity Length by Zihao Zhao, Guanyu Ye, Takuma Shirahata, Sean Wolfe, Lei Jin, Sze Yun Set, and Shinji Yamashita

Oral Presentations

1. All Polarization-Maintaining Wavelength-Tunable Femtosecond Pulse Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Based on Strain Controlled Lyot-Filter by Xiangnan Sun, Shinji Yamashita and Sze Yun Set
2. Orthogonally-Polarized Bi-directional Dual-Comb Fiber Laser by Kota Uyama, Takuma Shirahata, Sze Yun Set, and Shinji Yamashita
3. Coherent Doppler Lidar for Improved Object Velocomitry using Dual Measurement Fusion by Sean Wolfe, Takuma Shirahata, Shinji Yamashita and Sze Yun Set

For more information on the conference and how to attend please click here