The information and communications technology to support Society 5.0 is demanded to be of large capacity, low power consumption, low latency, and high security in all areas from the global scale to inside the chip. Although photonics excels at all of these, there is a need to create new type of photonics suitable for the next-generation information infrastructure technologies for which virtualization is further advanced. At the Platform Photonics Research Center, we are actively pursuing external collaboration, and are conducting research and development such as into (1) building an ecosystem for expanding the deployment of silicon photonics technology developed by the National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, which is the foremost in the world, (2) heterogeneous materials integration and large-scale optical chip technology, (3) opto-electronics integration and co-packaging technology, (4) large-scale optical switching system technology, and (5) optical network virtualization technology. By using these technologies as a nucleus, we are aiming to create technology that can be utilized as a seamless "platform" for photonics in cyber-physical systems.


Namiki Shu
Director of Platform Photonics Research Center