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Ken-ichi Kitayama

Ken-ichi Kitayama

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
63
Citations
15133
World Ranking
1373
National Ranking
40

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to optical fiber communications, radio-on-fiber communications, and photonic networks.

Overview

Ken-ichi Kitayama is a researcher affiliated with Osaka University in Japan. Their work spans multiple aspects of engineering with a primary focus on reservoir engineering and simulation methods.

Kitayama's recent publications include:

  • Minimal design of multi-stage reservoir based on small-world network, 2024, Engineering Research Express
  • Pairwise Transmission to Break the Fiber Dispersion Barrier of High-Speed Multilane IM-DD Systems, 2025, Journal of Lightwave Technology

Their work has appeared in journals such as Engineering Research Express and Journal of Lightwave Technology.

Frequent collaborators with Kitayama include:

  • Paikun Zhu
  • Yuki Yoshida
  • Kouichi Akahane
  • Bahram Jalali

The topics addressed by Kitayama's research focus on:

  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods

One of the identified subfields associated with Kitayama's work is Ocean Engineering.

In 2003, Kitayama was recognized as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to optical fiber communications, radio-on-fiber communications, and photonic networks.

Best Publications

  • Optical Fiber Communication Conference

    Josep M Fabrega;Michela Svaluto Moreolo;F Javier Vilchez;Bijan Rahimzadeh Rofoee

  • Analysis of beat noise in coherent and incoherent time-spreading OCDMA

    Xu Wang;K. Kitayama

  • OCDMA over WDM PON-solution path to gigabit-symmetric FTTH

    K. Kitayama;Xu Wang;Naoya Wada

  • 40 Gb/s W-band (75–110 GHz) 16-QAM radio-over-fiber signal generation and its wireless transmission

    Atsushi Kanno;Keizo Inagaki;Isao Morohashi;Takahide Sakamoto

  • Architectural considerations for photonic IP router based upon optical code correlation

    K. Kitayama;N. Wada;H. Sotobayashi

  • Photonic IP routing

    K.-I. Kitayama;N. Wada

  • Novel frontier of photonics for data processing—Photonic accelerator

    Ken Ichi Kitayama;Masaya Notomi;Makoto Naruse;Koji Inoue

  • Fiber-optic millimeter-wave downlink system using 60 GHz-band external modulation

    T. Kuri;K. Kitayama;A. Stohr;Y. Ogawa

  • A 10 Gb/s optical code division multiplexing using 8-chip optical bipolar code and coherent detection

    N. Wada;K. Kitayama

  • Simultaneous three-band modulation and fiber-optic transmission of 2.5-Gb/s baseband, microwave-, and 60-GHz-band signals on a single wavelength

    K. Ikeda;T. Kuri;K. Kitayama

  • Code division multiplexing lightwave networks based upon optical code conversion

    K. Kitayama

  • Wavelength-division-multiplexed Millimeter-waveband radio-on-fiber system using a supercontinuum light source

    T. Nakasyotani;H. Toda;T. Kuri;K. Kitayama

  • Versatile optical code-based MPLS for circuit, burst, and packet switchings

    K.-I. Kitayama;M. Murata

  • High reflectivity superstructured FBG for coherent optical code generation and recognition.

    Xu Wang;Koji Matsushima;Akihiko Nishiki;Naoya Wada

  • Propagation characteristics of IEEE 802.15.4 radio signal and their application for location estimation

    S. Hara;Dapeng Zhao;K. Yanagihara;J. Taketsugu

  • NRZ-OOK-to-RZ-BPSK modulation-format conversion using SOA-MZI wavelength converter

    K. Mishina;A. Maruta;S. Mitani;T. Miyahara

  • 1.6-b/s/Hz 6.4-Tb/s QPSK-OCDM/WDM (4 OCDM x 40 WDM x 40 Gb/s) transmission experiment using optical hard thresholding

    H. Sotobayashi;W. Chujo;K. Kitayama

  • Demultiplexing using an arrayed-waveguide grating for frequency-interleaved DWDM millimeter-wave radio-on-fiber systems

    H. Toda;T. Yamashita;T. Kuri;K. Kitayama

  • Full-duplex fiber-optic RF subcarrier transmission using a dual-function modulator/photodetector

    A. Stohr;K. Kitayama;D. Jager

  • High-performance optical code generation and recognition by use of a 511-chip, 640-Gchip/s phase-shifted superstructured fiber Bragg grating

    Xu Wang;Koji Matsushima;Ken-ichi Kitayama;Akihiko Nishiki

  • 325 nm bandwidth supercontinuum generation at 10 Gbit/s using dispersion-flattened and non-decreasing normal dispersion fibre with pulse compression technique

    H. Sotobayashi;K. Kitayama

Frequent Co-Authors

Akihiro Maruta
Akihiro Maruta Osaka University
Naoya Wada
Naoya Wada National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Tetsuya Kawanishi
Tetsuya Kawanishi Waseda University
Atsushi Kanno
Atsushi Kanno National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Shu Namiki
Shu Namiki National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Yoshinari Awaji
Yoshinari Awaji National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Dimitra Simeonidou
Dimitra Simeonidou University of Bristol
Shoichiro Matsuo
Shoichiro Matsuo Fujikura (Japan)
Jens C. Rasmussen
Jens C. Rasmussen Socionext Europe
Takehiro Tsuritani
Takehiro Tsuritani Furukawa Electric (United Kingdom)

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