Outline

Our team leverages aSdvanced photonic technologies to tackle global challenges such as agriculture, aging societies, energy resource management, and environmental change, while also contributing to breakthroughs in fundamental science. We develop optical remote sensing systems for detecting gases in daily life and industry, atmospheric monitoring tools for analyzing cosmic ray and solar activity indicators, breath analysis techniques for health diagnostics, short-range LiDAR for tunnel degradation detection, and hydrogen-based renewable energy systems. In fundamental science, we are advancing high-power coherent Lyman-alpha light sources for ultra-slow muon generation in particle physics, as well as laser-based solutions for space debris removal and spaceborne sensing. These efforts are rooted in core research on photonic materials and optical control. We focus especially on tunable infrared light sources based on nonlinear wavelength conversion for quantum sensing.

Fields

Engineering, Physics, Biology / Biochemistry, Agricultural Sciences, Medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy

Keywords

Particle control and measurement, Medical and agricultural measurement, Trace gas measurement, Natural energy, Space applications

Subjects

  • Mid-infrared Electronic Wavelength Tuning via Intracavity Differencefrequency Mixing in Cr:ZnSe Laser
  • Development of Next-Generation Agri-photonics Research
  • Development of laser irradiation technology and a laser for space
  • Development of renewable energy supply systems for hydrogen energy production, storage,and utilization
  • Visualizing human judgment in diagnostics of infrastructure
  • Application to biomedical, agricultural, and industrial measurement using lasers and photoacoustic wave
Research image 1

(a) Sodium LIDAR
(b) Coherent Lyman-α resonance radiation source for ultra-slow muon generation

Research image 2

(c) Laser inspection of infrastructure by courtesy of Shizuoka Pref. and Topcon Corp.
(d) Application of photonics control technology to plant cultivation

Selected Publications

  • Kurose, N., Obata, K., Koike, K., Nomura, S., Ogawa, T., Wada, S., Sugioka, K., and Aoyagi, Y.: “Formation of two-dimensional multichannel vertical optical waveguides in a nitrogen-vacancy center diamond using a femtosecond Bessel beam laser for local quantum sensing”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 126, 161102 (2025).
  • Tsai, M., Wang, K., Wada, S., Hsieh, C., Tseng, L., Horie, M., and Sassa, T., “Enhanced Photorefractive Performance by Controlling Ion-Assisted Charge Injection and Accumulation with Random Biphenyl Co-Polymerized Poly (Carbazolyl-Amine)”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 34(51), 2409659 (2024).
  • Mikami, N., Morishita, K., Murakami, T., Hosobata, T., Yamagata, Y., Ogawa, T., Mukouyama, Y., Nakanishi, S., Ager, III, J. W., Fujii, K., and Wada, S.: “Long Period Voltage Oscillations Associated with Reaction Changes between CO2 Reduction and H2 Formation in Zero-Gap-Type CO2 Electrochemical Reactor”, ACS Energy Lett. 9(9), 4225-4232 (2024).
  • Nakamura, Y., Moriyama, D., Isomura A., Sasoh, A., Tsuno, K., Ogawa, T., Wada, S., and Fukushima, T.: “Laser ablation impulse dependence on beam Spatial-Profile” Opt. Laser Technol. 169, 110160 (2024).
  • Yumoto, M., Miyata, K., Kawata, Y., and Wada, S.: “Mid-infrared self-difference frequency generation via random quasi-phase-matching in Cr:ZnSe laser”, Opt. Laser Technol. 169, 110161 (2024).　

Achievements

Members

Members List
Name Position
Satoshi Wada Team Director
Norihito Saito Senior Scientist
Kiwamu Kase Senior Research Scientist
Tomoki Matsuyama Senior Research Scientist
Takafumi Sassa Senior Research Scientist
Shigeharu Moriya Senior Research Scientist
Yutaka Nagata Senior Research Scientist
Takayo Ogawa Research Scientist
Katsushi Fujii Research Scientist
Kentaro Miyata Research Scientist
Masato Otagiri Research Scientist
Takeharu Murakami Research Scientist
Manabu Inukai Research Scientist
Tatsuya Shinozaki Research Scientist
Kentaro Nishigori Research Scientist
Naoki Uchiyama Research Scientist
Hiroshi Kasuga Technical Scientist
Michio Sakashita Technical Staff I
Katsuhiko Tsuno Technical Staff I
Kei Morishita Technical Staff I
Yasushi Kawata Technical Staff I
Toshihiro Okashita Technical Staff I
Akihiro Tanabashi Technical Staff I
Saki Miyajima Technical Staff I
Hiroshi Matsutaka Technical Staff I
Aya Kashifuku Technical Staff I
Tomohiro Tsukihana Technical Staff I
Norihiro Matsuyama Technical Staff I
Noriko Kurose Technical Staff I
Yoko Ono Technical Staff Ⅱ
Takeshi Matsumoto Technical Staff Ⅱ
Miyuki Nara Technical Staff Ⅱ

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