2026 Akira Shirakawa: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	41	6932	6692	143	137	299	7139

Overview

Akira Shirakawa is affiliated with the University of Electro-Communications in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with a focus on several specialized subfields and topics.

The main subfields of study associated with their work include:

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Computational Mechanics

The primary topics covered in their research consist of:

Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
Photonic and Optical Devices
Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows

Shirakawa has contributed publications to a number of venues, including:

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Journal of Physics Photonics
Optics Express
JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES

Selected recent papers authored by Shirakawa include:

"Deep reinforcement learning for tiled aperture beam combining in a simulated environment," 2020, Journal of Physics Photonics
"Phase-locked and mode-locked multicore photonic crystal fiber laser with a saturable absorber," 2021, Optics Express
"Tiled Aperture Beam Combining with Reinforcement Learning," 2020, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
"Aerodynamic Characteristics of Airfoil with Thin Leading-Edge at Low Reynolds Numbers," 2020, JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES
"Phase-locked and mode-locked multicore photonic crystal fiber laser with saturable absorber," 2021, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Frequent collaborators in their publications include:

Henrik Tünnermann
Tomonari Kawamura
Kazuya Saito
Masato Okamoto

Best Publications

Sub-5-fs visible pulse generation by pulse-front-matched noncollinear optical parametric amplification

A. Shirakawa;I. Sakane;M. Takasaka;T. Kobayashi

442
Citations
Coherent addition of fiber lasers by use of a fiber coupler.

Akira Shirakawa;Tomoharu Saitou;Tomoki Sekiguchi;Ken-ichi Ueda

360
Citations
Pulse-front-matched optical parametric amplification for sub-10-fs pulse generation tunable in the visible and near infrared

Akira Shirakawa;Isao Sakane;Takayoshi Kobayashi

343
Citations
Promising ceramic laser material: Highly transparent Nd3+:Lu2O3 ceramic

J. Lu;K. Takaichi;T. Uematsu;A. Shirakawa

250
Citations
Noncollinearly phase-matched femtosecond optical parametric amplification with a 2000 cm -1 bandwidth

Akira Shirakawa;Takayoshi Kobayashi

186
Citations
Yb3+:Y2O3 Ceramics – a Novel Solid-State Laser Material

Jianren Lu;Kazunori Takaichi;Tomohiro Uematsu;Akira Shirakawa

177
Citations
Diode-pumped mode-locked Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic laser.

A. Shirakawa;K. Takaichi;H. Yagi;J. F. Bisson

147
Citations
Composite Yb:YAG/Cr 4+ :YAG ceramics picosecond microchip lasers

Jun Dong;Ken-ichi Ueda;Akira Shirakawa;Hideki Yagi

146
Citations
High-power Yb-doped photonic bandgap fiber amplifier at 1150-1200 nm.

A. Shirakawa;H. Maruyama;K. Ueda;C. B. Olausson

143
Citations
Laser-diode pumped heavy-doped Yb : YAG ceramic lasers

Jun Dong;Akira Shirakawa;Ken-ichi Ueda;Hideki Yagi

138
Citations
Diode-pumped ultrashort-pulse generation based on Yb(3+):Sc(2)O(3) and Yb(3+):Y(2)O(3) ceramic multi-gain-media oscillator.

Masaki Tokurakawa;Akira Shirakawa;Ken-ichi Ueda;Hideki Yagi

138
Citations
Highly efficient continuous-wave operation at 1030 and 1075 nm wavelengths of LD-pumped Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic lasers

Kazunori Takaichi;Hideki Yagi;Jianren Lu;Jean-Francois Bisson

137
Citations
Efficient Yb3+:Y3Al5O12 ceramic microchip lasers

Jun Dong;Akira Shirakawa;Ken-ichi Ueda;Hideki Yagi

135
Citations
Lu2O3:Yb3+ ceramics – a novel gain material for high-power solid-state lasers

K. Takaichi;H. Yagi;A. Shirakawa;K. Ueda

130
Citations
Real-time vibrational mode-coupling associated with ultrafast geometrical relaxation in polydiacetylene induced by sub-5-fs pulses

Takayoshi Kobayashi;Akira Shirakawa;Hiroshi Matsuzawa;Hachiro Nakanishi

125
Citations
Tunable visible and near-infrared pulse generator in a 5 fs regime

T. Kobayashi;A. Shirakawa

124
Citations
Yb3+-doped Y3Al5O12 ceramics – A new solid-state laser material

K. Takaichi;H. Yagi;J. Lu;A. Shirakawa

117
Citations
Generation of radially polarized mode in Yb fiber laser by using a dual conical prism

Jian-lang Li;Ken-ichi Ueda;Mitsuru Musha;Akira Shirakawa

115
Citations
Diode-pumped 65 fs Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb(3+):Lu(2)O(3) and nondoped Y(2)O(3) combined ceramic laser.

Masaki Tokurakawa;Akira Shirakawa;Ken-ichi Ueda;Hideki Yagi

109
Citations
Diode-pumped mode-locked Yb(3+):Lu(2)O(3) ceramic laser.

M. Tokurakawa;K. Takaichi;A. Shirakawa;K. Ueda

106
Citations
Laguerre-Gaussian modes selection in diode-pumped solid-state lasers

Yury Senatsky;Jean-François Bisson;Jianlang Li;Akira Shirakawa

90
Citations
Diode-pumped sub-100 fs Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb3+:Sc2O3 ceramic laser.

Masaki Tokurakawa;Akira Shirakawa;Ken-ichi Ueda;Hideki Yagi

87
Citations
167 W, power scalable ytterbium-doped photonic bandgap fiber amplifier at 1178nm

C. B. Olausson;A. Shirakawa;M. Chen;J. K. Lyngsø

86
Citations
Limits of coherent addition of lasers: simple estimate

D. Kouznetsov;J. Bisson;A. Shirakawa;K. Ueda

82
Citations
Efficient excitations of radially and azimuthally polarized Nd^3+:YAG ceramic microchip laser by use of subwavelength multilayer concentric gratings composed of Nb_2O_5/SiO_2

Jian-Lang Li;Ken-ichi Ueda;Lan-xiang Zhong;Mitsuru Musha

75
Citations