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Ken-ichi Sato

Ken-ichi Sato

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
57
Citations
11085
World Ranking
1995
National Ranking
67

Overview

Ken-ichi Sato is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a particular emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including computer networks and communications, nuclear and high energy physics, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics addressed in their work focus largely on optical and photonic technologies. These include:

  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Advanced Optical Network Technologies
  • Interconnection Networks and Systems
  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices

Ken-ichi Sato has published frequently in venues dedicated to optics and communications technologies. Key publication venues for their work are:

  • Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2022
  • Optics Express
  • Journal of Instrumentation

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Sato include:

  • Optical switching will innovate intra data center networks [Invited Tutorial], 2023, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • Prospects and challenges of optical switching technologies for intra data center networks, 2022, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • High-port-count optical circuit switches for intra-datacenter networks [Invited Tutorial], 2021, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Frequent collaborators in their research include Ryotaro Konoike, Keijiro Suzuki, Shu Namiki, Hiroyuki Matsuura, and Kazuhiro Ikeda, each having contributed jointly on multiple occasions. These collaborative relationships have supported the development of work related to optical network technologies and photonic systems.

Best Publications

  • Network performance and integrity enhancement with optical path layer technologies

    K.-I. Sato;S. Okamoto;H. Hadama

  • Broad-band ATM network architecture based on virtual paths

    K.-I. Sato;S. Ohta;I. Tokizawa

  • Self-healing ATM networks based on virtual path concept

    R. Kawamura;K.-I. Sato;I. Tokizawa

  • More than 1000 channel optical frequency chain generation from single supercontinuum source with 12.5 GHz channel spacing

    H. Takara;T. Ohara;K. Mori;K. Sato

  • Dynamic bandwidth control of the virtual path in an asynchronous transfer mode network

    S. Ohta;K.-I. Sato

  • Optical Networking Technologies That Will Create Future Bandwidth-Abundant Networks [Invited]

    K.-i. Sato;H. Hasegawa

  • GMPLS-based photonic multilayer router (Hikari router) architecture: an overview of traffic engineering and signaling technology

    K. Sato;N. Yamanaka;Y. Takigawa;M. Koga

  • Disruption minimized spectrum defragmentation in elastic optical path networks that adopt distance adaptive modulation

    Tatsumi Takagi;Hiroshi Hasegawa;Ken-ichi Sato;Yoshiaki Sone

  • A dynamically controllable ATM transport network based on the virtual path concept

    Satoru Ohta;Ken-ichi Sato;Ikuo Tokizawa

  • Chirp characteristics of 40-gb/s directly Modulated distributed-feedback laser diodes

    K. Sato;S. Kuwahara;Y. Miyamoto

  • Ultra low loss and long length photonic crystal fiber

    K. Tajima;Jian Zhou;K. Nakajima;K. Sato

  • Dynamic routing and frequency slot assignment for elastic optical path networks that adopt distance adaptive modulation

    T. Takagi;H. Hasegawa;K. Sato;Y. Sone

  • Optical path cross-connect node architectures for photonic transport network

    S. Okamoto;A. Watanabe;K.-I. Sato

  • Advances in Transport Network Technologies: Photonic Networks, ATM, and SDH

    Ken-Ichi Sato

  • Spectral encoding and decoding of 10 Gbit/s femtosecond pulses using high resolution arrayed-waveguide grating

    H. Tsuda;H. Takenouchi;T. Ishii;K. Okamoto

  • Prospects and Challenges of Multi-Layer Optical Networks

    Ken-ichi Sato;Hiroshi Hasegawa

  • Virtual path and link capacity design for ATM networks

    Y. Sato;K.-I. Sato

  • Design and performance of an optical path cross-connect system based on wavelength path concept

    M. Koga;Y. Hamazumi;A. Watanabe;S. Okamoto

  • An efficient hierarchical optical path network design algorithm based on a traffic demand expression in a cartesian product space

    I. Yagyu;H. Hasegawa;K. Sato

  • Development of Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC)

    K. Yamamoto;K. Yamamura;K. Sato;S. Kamakura

Frequent Co-Authors

Shu Namiki
Shu Namiki National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hidehiko Takara
Hidehiko Takara NTT (Japan)
Toshio Morioka
Toshio Morioka Technical University of Denmark
Yutaka Miyamoto
Yutaka Miyamoto Harvard University
Kazuhiro Ikeda
Kazuhiro Ikeda National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Lena Wosinska
Lena Wosinska Chalmers University of Technology
Masahiko Jinno
Masahiko Jinno Kagawa University
Suresh Subramaniam
Suresh Subramaniam George Washington University
Taiichi Otsuji
Taiichi Otsuji Tohoku University
Paolo Monti
Paolo Monti Chalmers University of Technology

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