Nano-photonics for Advanced Networks

This book encourages optoelectronic researchers and engineers to exploit innovative nano-photonic applications in next-generation information and communications systems. The authors discuss applications enabled by three forms of nano-photonics: silicon photonics, photonic crystals and surface plasmons, with a view to the development of the defining applications and technologies of tomorrow. They explain topics clearly for readers both new to the field and experts in photonics, providing:

• basic knowledge of the general structures, physics and characteristics of optoelectronic devices;
• advanced understanding of the specific structures, physics and characteristics of the latest nano-scale optoelectronic and surface-plasmonic devices and related technologies; and
• an account of practical applications for each form of nano-photonics, among them: optical transception, LiDAR, optical neuro-computing, optical random access memory and high-power and narrow-beam surface-emitting lasers.

The book is organised to treat the basics of each form of nano-photonic device and then the applications. Specialist researchers studying and practitioners employing nano-photonics will find Nano-photonics for Advanced Networks to be a useful means of keeping track of both the properties and applications of such devices. The book will also serve graduate students well as a comprehensive sourcebook for the subject.

Kiyoshi Asakawa received his B.E. and Ph. D degrees in physical engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1968 and 1992, respectively. In 1968, he joined NEC central research laboratories. From 1981 to 1987, he was on assignment at Optoelectronic Joint Research Laboratory (OJL) to work on the III-V compound semiconductor dry etching for photonic devices. Between 1996 and 2004, he was engaged in the Femtosecond Technology Research Association (FESTA), where he was a group leader of the nano-processing technologies including photonic crystals and quantum dots for ultra-fast all-optical devices. In 2004 - 2008, he was a professor of University of Tsukuba. In 2007 - 2009, he was an adjunct auditor of National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. In 2010 - 2015, he was a visiting professor and principal coordinator of University of Tsukuba. He was once a visiting researcher with Prof. James Merz at University of California, Santa Barbara in 1987-1988, visiting professorof University of Tsukuba in 1993 - 2002, and also visiting professor of Hokkaido University in 1998 and 2001. In 1986, he received the best paper award from The Japan Society of Applied Physics. In 1991, he received the research award from The Agency of Science and Technology, Japan. In 2015, he received the Nishizawa award from DPS 2015. His research and development concerns in the industry and academic institutes were, firstly, dry-etching technologies for optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEICs) and, secondly, nano-photonics technologies including photonic crystals, quantum dots, surface plasmon and their applications to advanced signal processing devices in photonic network and high-sensitivity bio-photonic sensors in a micro-fluidic bio-chemical system. 

Yoshimasa Sugimoto received their B.E. degree, M.E. degree and Ph. D degree in electronic engineering from Shizuoka University, Japan, in 1978, 1980 and 1996, respectively. In 1980, he joined the Central Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Kawasaki. He has been engaged in the research and development of photo-detectors, VCSELs and dry etching process for III-V compound semiconductors. He joined the Femtosecond Technology Research Association (FESTA), where he developed nano-processing technologies of photonic crystals for ultra-fast photonic devices, from 2000 to 2004. Since 2007, he is engaged in the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), where he is currently developing nano-processing technologies of nano-photonic devices such as photonic crystals for ultra-fast photonic devices, plasmonic and metamaterial devices. From 2004 to 2007, he was a Visiting Professor in the Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA), University of Tsukuba, Japan. From 2010 to 2018, he was a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University.

Shigeru Nakamura received his B. S. and M. S. degrees in physics from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1988 and 1990, respectively. In 1990, he joined NEC Corporation, Tsukuba, Japan, and is engaged in the research and development of ultrafast all-optical devices and sub-systems, silicon photonics devices and sub-systems, and then optical sensing sub-systems. He has made many invited presentations in international conferences, and he has received best paper awards in conferences such as OEC1994, OECC2002, and OECC2011.