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Kunimasa Saitoh

Kunimasa Saitoh

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
68
Citations
17927
World Ranking
1018
National Ranking
26

Overview

Kunimasa Saitoh is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan, specializing in engineering with a strong focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research portfolio encompasses several interconnected subfields including atomic and molecular physics, optics, artificial intelligence, surfaces, coatings and films, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications

Kunimasa Saitoh has contributed scholarly articles to a variety of publication venues. The frequent journals where they have published include:

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Optics Express
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America B
  • Optical Fiber Technology
  • IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Saitoh include:

  • Multi-Core Fiber Technology for SDM: Coupling Mechanisms and Design, 2022, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • High Spatial Density 6-Mode 7-Core Fiber Amplifier for L-Band Operation, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Geometric-phase-induced arbitrary polarization and orbital angular momentum generation in helically twisted birefringent photonic crystal fiber, 2020, Photonics Research
  • Bayesian direct-binary-search algorithm for the efficient design of mosaic-based power splitters, 2021, OSA Continuum
  • Spatial Density and Splicing Characteristic Optimized Few-Mode Multi-Core Fiber, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology

Collaborative work features several frequent co-authors who have contributed significantly alongside Saitoh. These include Takeshi Fujisawa, Takanori Sato, Taiji Sakamoto, Kazuhide Nakajima, and Takashi Matsui.

Best Publications

  • Chromatic dispersion control in photonic crystal fibers: application to ultra-flattened dispersion

    Kunimasa Saitoh;M Koshiba;T Hasegawa;E Sasaoka

  • Full-vectorial imaginary-distance beam propagation method based on a finite element scheme: application to photonic crystal fibers

    K. Saitoh;M. Koshiba

  • Multicore Fiber Technology

    Kunimasa Saitoh;Shoichiro Matsuo

  • Analytical Expression of Average Power-Coupling Coefficients for Estimating Intercore Crosstalk in Multicore Fibers

    Masanori Koshiba;Kunimasa Saitoh;Katsuhiro Takenaga;Shoichiro Matsuo

  • 1.01-Pb/s (12 SDM/222 WDM/456 Gb/s) Crosstalk-managed Transmission with 91.4-b/s/Hz Aggregate Spectral Efficiency

    Hidehiko Takara;Akihide Sano;Takayuki Kobayashi;Hirokazu Kubota

  • Heterogeneous multi-core fibers: proposal and design principle

    Masanori Koshiba;Kunimasa Saitoh;Yasuo Kokubun

  • Numerical modeling of photonic crystal fibers

    K. Saitoh;M. Koshiba

  • Design of a Compact Two-Mode Multi/Demultiplexer Consisting of Multimode Interference Waveguides and a Wavelength-Insensitive Phase Shifter for Mode-Division Multiplexing Transmission

    T. Uematsu;Y. Ishizaka;Y. Kawaguchi;K. Saitoh

  • Single-polarization single-mode photonic crystal fibers

    K. Saitoh;M. Koshiba

  • Empirical relations for simple design of photonic crystal fibers.

    Kunimasa Saitoh;Masanori Koshiba

  • Leakage loss and group velocity dispersion in air-core photonic bandgap fibers

    Kunimasa Saitoh;Masanori Koshiba

  • Highly nonlinear dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fibers for supercontinuum generation in a telecommunication window.

    Kunimasa Saitoh;Masanori Koshiba

  • Coupling characteristics of dual-core photonic crystal fiber couplers

    Kunimasa Saitoh;Yuichiro Sato;Masanori Koshiba

  • Multi-core fiber design and analysis: coupled-mode theory and coupled-power theory

    Masanori Koshiba;Kunimasa Saitoh;Katsuhiro Takenaga;Shoichiro Matsuo

  • Ultra-flattened chromatic dispersion controllability using a defected-core photonic crystal fiber with low confinement losses.

    Kunimasa Saitoh;Nikolaos Florous;Masanori Koshiba

  • Reduction of crosstalk by trench-assisted multi-core fiber

    K. Takenaga;Y. Arakawa;S. Tanigawa;N. Guan

  • Applicability of classical optical fiber theories to holey fibers

    Masanori Koshiba;Kunimasa Saitoh

  • Multi-core fiber

    Shoichiro Matsuo;Kunimasa Saitoh;Masanori Koshiba

  • Demonstration of mode-division multiplexing transmission over 10 km two-mode fiber with mode coupler

    Nobutomo Hanzawa;Kunimasa Saitoh;Taiji Sakamoto;Takashi Matsui

  • Full-vectorial finite element beam propagation method with perfectly matched layers for anisotropic optical waveguides

    K. Saitoh;M. Koshiba

  • Multicore fiber technology

    Kunimasa Saitoh

Frequent Co-Authors

Shoichiro Matsuo
Shoichiro Matsuo Fujikura (Japan)
Katsuhiro Takenaga
Katsuhiro Takenaga Fujikura (United States)
Yutaka Miyamoto
Yutaka Miyamoto Harvard University
Liang Dong
Liang Dong Clemson University
Toshio Morioka
Toshio Morioka Technical University of Denmark
Hidehiko Takara
Hidehiko Takara NTT (Japan)
Keping Long
Keping Long University of Science and Technology Beijing
Stefano Selleri
Stefano Selleri University of Parma
Yoshinari Awaji
Yoshinari Awaji National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

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