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Masataka Nakazawa

Masataka Nakazawa

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
70
Citations
18716
World Ranking
920
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies "For pioneering development of 1.48 µm InGaAsP laser-diode pumping of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA)."
  • 1995 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to high-speed optical solution communication using erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, femtosecond lasers, and nonlinear fiber optics.

Overview

Masataka Nakazawa is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan. Their research focuses primarily on engineering and physics, specifically within electrical and electronic engineering as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics. These fields underpin Nakazawa's work in advanced fiber laser technologies and optical network technologies.

Their scholarly output includes contributions to topics such as:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics

Nakazawa's extensive publication record features papers in notable venues, including:

  • Optics Express (13 publications)
  • IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (10 publications)
  • 2022 27th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and 2022 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC) (4 publications)
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology (3 publications)
  • IEICE Transactions on Communications (3 publications)

Frequent collaborators in Nakazawa's work include Toshihiko Hirooka, Masato Yoshida, Keisuke Kasai, Takashi Kan, and Kosuke Kimura.

Significant recent papers include:

  • Theory of AM Mode-Locking of a Laser as an Arbitrary Optical Function Generator, 2021, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
  • Theoretical and experimental analyses of GAWBS phase noise in various optical fibers for digital coherent transmission, 2020, Optics Express
  • 10 Channel WDM 80 Gbit/s/ch, 256 QAM Bi-Directional Coherent Transmission for a High Capacity Next-Generation Mobile Fronthaul, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Precise measurements and their analysis of GAWBS-induced depolarization noise in various optical fibers for digital coherent transmission, 2020, Optics Express
  • GAWBS phase noise characteristics in multi-core fibers for digital coherent transmission, 2020, Optics Express

Nakazawa has been recognized with awards such as the IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies in 2002, citing pioneering work on erbium-doped fiber amplifiers pumped by 1.48 µm InGaAsP laser diodes. Additionally, Nakazawa was named an IEEE Fellow in 1995 for contributions encompassing high-speed optical solution communication, femtosecond lasers, and nonlinear fiber optics.

Best Publications

  • 1.28 Tbit/s-70 km OTDM transmission using third- and fourth-order simultaneous dispersion compensation with a phase modulator

    M. Nakazawa;T. Yamamoto;K.R. Tamura

  • 10 Gbit/s soliton data transmission over one million kilometres

    M. Nakazawa;E. Yamada;H. Kubota;K. Suzuki

  • Ultrastable harmonically and regeneratively modelocked polarisation-maintaining erbium fibre ring laser

    M. Nakazawa;E. Yoshida;Y. Kimura

  • Parabolic pulse generation by use of a dispersion-decreasing fiber with normal group-velocity dispersion

    Toshihiko Hirooka;Masataka Nakazawa

  • Efficient Er3+‐doped optical fiber amplifier pumped by a 1.48 μm InGaAsP laser diode

    Masataka Nakazawa;Yasuo Kimura;Kazunori Suzuki

  • Ultrahigh-speed “orthogonal” TDM transmission with an optical Nyquist pulse train

    Masataka Nakazawa;Toshihiko Hirooka;Peng Ruan;Pengyu Guan

  • Long-term measurement of optical frequencies using a simple, robust and low-noise fiber based frequency comb

    Hajime Inaba;Yuta Daimon;Feng Lei Hong;Atsushi Onae

  • Rayleigh backscattering theory for single-mode optical fibers

    Masataka Nakazawa

  • Supermode noise suppression in a harmonically modelocked fibre laser by selfphase modulation and spectral filtering

    M. Nakazawa;K. Tamura;E. Yoshida

  • Ultrafast nonlinear optical loop mirror for demultiplexing 640 Gbit/s TDM signals

    T. Yamamoto;E. Yoshida;M. Nakazawa

  • 80〜200 GHz erbium doped fibre laser using a rational harmonic mode-locking technique

    E. Yoshida;M. Nakazawa

  • Pulse compression by nonlinear pulse evolution with reduced optical wave breaking in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers

    K. Tamura;M. Nakazawa

  • TDM single channel 640 Gbit/s transmission experiment over 60 km using 400 fs pulse train and walk-off free, dispersion flattened nonlinear optical loop mirror

    M. Nakazawa;E. Yoshida;T. Yamamoto;E. Yamada

  • PRODUCTION OF OPTICAL FIBER PREFORM

    Omae Toshikazu;Tanaka Hiroyuki;Yoshida Minoru;Morisawa Masaaki

  • Experimental demonstration of soliton data transmission over unlimited distances with soliton control in time and frequency domains

    M. Nakazawa;K. Suzuki;E. Yamada;H. Kubota

  • Optical soliton communication in a positively and negatively dispersion-allocated optical fibre transmission line

    M. Nakazawa;H. Kubota

  • Disaster-resilient networking: a new vision based on movable and deployable resource units

    T. Sakano;Z. M. Fadlullah;Thuan Ngo;H. Nishiyama

  • Coherence degradation in the process of supercontinuum generation in an optical fiber

    Masataka Nakazawa;Kohichi Tamura;Hirokazu Kubota;Eiji Yoshida

  • 10.16-Peta-B/s Dense SDM/WDM Transmission Over 6-Mode 19-Core Fiber Across the C+L Band

    Daiki Soma;Yuta Wakayama;Shohei Beppu;Seiya Sumita

  • Fundamentals of stable continuum generation at high repetition rates

    K.R. Tamura;H. Kuhota;M. Nakazawa

  • Low threshold, 290 fs erbium‐doped fiber laser with a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror pumped by InGaAsP laser diodes

    Masataka Nakazawa;Eiji Yoshida;Yasuo Kimura

Frequent Co-Authors

Fumiyuki Adachi
Fumiyuki Adachi Tohoku University
Yoshinari Awaji
Yoshinari Awaji National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Yasuo Kokubun
Yasuo Kokubun Yokohama National University
Francesco Poletti
Francesco Poletti University of Southampton
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)
Itsuro Morita
Itsuro Morita Waseda University

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