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2024/ 3/29
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Researchers involved in silicon photonics research at PPRC were awarded the AIST Presitdent Award 2023. president award (in Japanese)

2024/ 1/ 1
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Dr. Koji Yamada, a principal research manager of PPRC, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow with a citation for “Contributions to Silicon Photonics”, as of January 1, 2024. The award will be presented at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) to be held in March, 2024.

2023/11/22
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The research article of Takashi Inoue, a member of Optical Network Research Team, and coworkers, entitled as “Learning-based digital back propagation considering cross-phase modulation in wavelength-division multiplexed transmission systems” , was selected as 2023 Best Paper Award of IEICE Technical Committee on Optical Communication Systems.

2023/10/ 6
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Results of joint research by the University of Tokyo and AIST in which Team Leader Makoto Okano of Hybrid Photonics Research Team participates, entitled as "Photonic Tensor Core with Low-insertion-loss, Non-volatile Ge2Sb2Te3S2 Intensity Modulators," was selected as one of Best Papers (Tu.B.3.3) of ECOC2023 (2023/10/1-5).

2023/ 9/11
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Results of joint research by the University of Tokyo and AIST in which Team Leader Makoto Okano of Hybrid Photonics Research Team participates, entitled as "Photonic Matrix Multiplication using Low-insertion-loss and Non-volatile Ge2Sb2Te3S2 Intensity Modulators," was selected as one of the highlighted presentations and released to the press at the 84th Japan Society of Applied Physics Autumn Meeting 2023. (Application of Optical Computer Technology to Deep Learning. Demonstration of Matrix Operation using Optical Modulators with New Materials and Optical Circuits with a Novel Structure.)

2023/ 6/ 8
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Dr. Koji Yamada, a principal research manager of PPRC and Dr. Tai Tsuchizawa, an invited researcher of Silicon Photonics Research Team in PPRC, were awarded The Achievement Award from IEICE, Japan, for their Pioneering research on silicon integrated photonic circuits.

2023/ 2/28
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The research article of Ryosuke Matsumoto, Senior Researcher of Optical Network Research Team, and coworkers, entitled as "Performance Verification of 7,424 × 7,424 Optical Switch Offering 1.4 μs Switching Time", was selected as the Top-Scored paper (M4J.5) of OFC2023 (2023/3/5-9)

2023/ 2/28
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The research article of Yuki Atsumi, Senior Researcher of Hybrid Photonics Research Team, and coworkers, entitled as "Free-Space Signal Transmission Using Optical Beam Scanning Device Incorporating Broadband Silicon Surface Optical Couplers", was selected as the Top-Scored paper (M3C.4) of OFC2023 (2023/3/5-9)

2023/ 1/27
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The research article of Fumi Nakamura, Researcher of Optical Integration Research Team, and coworkers, entitled as “Micromirror Fabrication for Co-packaged Optics using 3D Nanoimprint Technology” , was selected as Editor’s Pick of Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B .

2023/ 1/25
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Dr. Cong Guangwei, Senior Researcher of Silicon Photonics Research Team, will give an invited talk entitled “Silicon Photonic Hopfield-like Electro-optical Recurrent Network for Time-series Data Processing and Recognition” at OFC2023 (3/3/5-9) held by OPTICA.

2022/12/13
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Dr. Ryosuke Matsumoto, senior researcher of Optical Network Research Team, was selected as a  Finalist of Tingye Li Innovation Prize at OFC2023 held by OPTICA, for the presentation titled ”Performance Verification of 7,424 × 7,424 Optical Switch Offering 1.4 μs Switching Time” (M4J.5).

2022/11/17
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Dr. Ryosuke Sato, Research Assistant of Silicon Photonics Research Team, and his coworkers have received Young Scientist Presentation Award from The Japan Society of Applied Physics for the presentation entitled “Fabrication of Si-SiO2-Si slot waveguide using µ-Transfer printing” at the 83rd JSAP Autumn Meeting 2022.

2022/ 8/ 5
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Dr. Fumi Nakamura, Researcher of Optical Integration Research Team, will give an invited talk entitled “Demonstration of Micromirror Fabrication for Co-packaged Optics Using UV Nanoimprint” at NNT2022 (Nanoimprint and Nanoprint Technology Conference) Oct. 5-7, 2022.

2022/ 8/ 5
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Dr. Ryotaro Konoike , Senior Researcher of Photonics Systems Research Team, gave an invited talk entitled “Programmable Waveguides on 2D Coupled Silicon Ring Resonator Array” at CLEO Pacific Rim 2022.

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