Photonics Control Technology Team

Team Leader

Satoshi Wada

Ph.D.

Photo: Satoshi Wada

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Photonics Control Technology Team,
RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics

#119 1F Laser Science Laboratory,
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 Japan

Outline

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Our team investigates new optical technologies for solving world-wide environmental and energy problems. We are mainly developing remote-sensing system of poisonous gas, lidar as an atmospheric monitor for high energy cosmic ray observation, and solar-pumped laser for advanced energy source. We are also developing tunable laser-based biosensors for biomedical and agricultural applications. These researches will contribute to build and to maintain social environment that humans can live safely. Moreover, we are investigating fundamental research topics including particle control with high power Lyman α coherent source, and development of laser pumped neutron source. New applied researches were performed on the basis of basic research of laser materials, and nonlinear optics.

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

  1. Development of trace gas remote-sensing system with mid-infrared laser
  2. Development of infrastructure measurement system with laser remote-sensing system
  3. Research of renewable energy using solar light
  4. Generation of ultraslow muon with vacuum ultraviolet laser
  5. 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

  1. Miyata, K., Kato, K., Wada, S., and Petrov, P.: “Thermo-optic dispersion properties of CdSe for parametric nonlinear interactions ” , Opt. Mater. Express 12, 963-969 (2022).
  2. Fujii, K., Goto, T., Koike, K., Sugiyama, M., Nakamura, S., and Wada, S.: “Carrier Pathway for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation with Intermediate State in n-type GaN Compared with Route of Anodic Corrosion”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125 (16), 8562-8569 (2021).
  3. Matsuura, R., Lo, CW., Wada, S., Somei, J., Ochiai, H., Murakami, T., Saito, N., Ogawa, T., Shinjo, A., Benno, Y., Nakagawa, M., Takei, M., and Aida.,Y.: “SARS-CoV-2 disinfection of air and surface contamination by TiO2 photocatalyst-mediated damage to viral morphology, RNA, and protein” , Viruses 13, 942 (2021).
  4. Tsuyama, S., Taketani, A., Murakami, T., Sakashita, M., Miyajima, S., Ogawa, T., Wada, S., Maeda, H., and Hanada, Y.: “Quantitative prediction of a functional ingredient in apple using Raman spectroscopy and multivariate calibration analysis” , Appl. Phys. B 127, 92 (2021).
  5. Yumoto, M., Kawata, Y., Abe, T. Matsuyama, T., and Wada, S.: “Non-destructive mid-IR spectroscopy with quantum cascade laser can detect ethylene gas dynamics of apple cultivar ‘Fuji’ in real time”, Sci. Rep. 11, 20695 (2021).

Members

Satoshi WadaTeam Leader
Norihito SaitoSenior Scientist
Kiwamu KaseSenior Research Scientist
Tomoki MatsuyamaSenior Research Scientist
Takafumi SassaSenior Research Scientist
Takayo OgawaResearch Scientist
Masaki YumotoResearch Scientist
Katsushi FujiiResearch Scientist
Kentaro MiyataResearch Scientist
Masayuki MaruyamaResearch Scientist
Takeharu MurakamiResearch Scientist
Masato OtagiriResearch Scientist
Yoshito IshikiPostdoctoral Researcher
Michio SakashitaTechnical Staff Ⅰ
Katsuhiko TsunoTechnical Staff Ⅰ
Kei TaneishiTechnical Staff Ⅰ
Kei MorishitaTechnical Staff Ⅰ
Yasushi KawataTechnical Staff Ⅰ
Toshihiro OkashitaTechnical Staff I
Yoko OnoTechnical Staff Ⅱ
Takeshi MatsumotoTechnical Staff Ⅱ