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Masaya Notomi

Masaya Notomi

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
72
Citations
24391
World Ranking
797
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For leadership in the development of photonic crystals and applications

Overview

Masaya Notomi is a researcher affiliated with NTT in Japan whose work primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Their research covers several subfields, including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their main research topics encompass Photonic and Optical Devices, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Optical Network Technologies, Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, Nanowire Synthesis and Applications, and Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics.

Notomi has contributed to numerous scientific publications and has published extensively in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Optics Express
  • ACS Photonics
  • NTT technical review

Recent publications by Notomi and their collaborators include:

  • Generation and Annihilation of Topologically Protected Bound States in the Continuum and Circularly Polarized States by Symmetry Breaking (2020), Physical Review Letters
  • All-Optical InAsP/InP Nanowire Switches Integrated in a Si Photonic Crystal (2020), ACS Photonics
  • Ultrashort low-loss Ψ gates for linear optical logic on Si photonics platform (2020), Communications Physics
  • Hybrid Nanowire Photodetector Integrated in a Silicon Photonic Crystal (2020), ACS Photonics
  • Highly nitrogen-vacancy doped diamond nanostructures fabricated by ion implantation and optimum annealing (2020), APL Materials

Notomi frequently collaborates with several researchers, with notable coauthors including Akihiko Shinya, Masato Takiguchi, Taiki Yoda, Yuto Moritake, and Kenta Takata. These collaborations have encompassed multiple publications and projects in photonics and related fields.

Over the course of their career, Notomi has received recognition such as being named an IEEE Fellow in 2013 for leadership in the development of photonic crystals and applications, reflecting their involvement in advancing this area of research.

Best Publications

  • Theory of light propagation in strongly modulated photonic crystals: Refractionlike behavior in the vicinity of the photonic band gap

    M. Notomi

  • Superprism Phenomena in Photonic Crystals

    Hideo Kosaka;Takayuki Kawashima;Akihisa Tomita;Masaya Notomi

  • Extremely Large Group-Velocity Dispersion of Line-Defect Waveguides in Photonic Crystal Slabs

    M. Notomi;K. Yamada;A. Shinya;J. Takahashi

  • Self-collimating phenomena in photonic crystals

    Hideo Kosaka;Takayuki Kawashima;Akihisa Tomita;Masaya Notomi;Masaya Notomi

  • Sub-femtojoule all-optical switching using a photonic-crystal nanocavity

    Kengo Nozaki;Takasumi Tanabe;Akihiko Shinya;Shinji Matsuo

  • Ultrahigh-Q photonic crystal nanocavities realized by the local width modulation of a line defect

    Eiichi Kuramochi;Masaya Notomi;Satoshi Mitsugi;Akihiko Shinya

  • Optical bistable switching action of Si high-Q photonic-crystal nanocavities

    Masaya Notomi;Akihiko Shinya;Satoshi Mitsugi;Goh Kira

  • Waveguides, resonators and their coupled elements in photonic crystal slabs.

    M. Notomi;A. Shinya;S. Mitsugi;E. Kuramochi

  • Large-scale arrays of ultrahigh-Q coupled nanocavities

    Masaya Notomi;Eiichi Kuramochi;Takasumi Tanabe

  • Trapping and delaying photons for one nanosecond in an ultrasmall high-Q photonic-crystal nanocavity

    Takasumi Tanabe;Masaya Notomi;Eiichi Kuramochi;Akihiko Shinya

  • All-optical switches on a silicon chip realized using photonic crystal nanocavities

    Takasumi Tanabe;Masaya Notomi;Satoshi Mitsugi;Akihiko Shinya

  • Manipulating light with strongly modulated photonic crystals

    Masaya Notomi

  • Fast bistable all-optical switch and memory on a silicon photonic crystal on-chip.

    Takasumi Tanabe;Masaya Notomi;Satoshi Mitsugi;Akihiko Shinya

  • High-speed ultracompact buried heterostructure photonic-crystal laser with 13 fJ of energy consumed per bit transmitted

    Shinji Matsuo;Akihiko Shinya;Takaaki Kakitsuka;Kengo Nozaki

  • Ultrafast and energy-efficient all-optical switching with graphene-loaded deep-subwavelength plasmonic waveguides

    Masaaki Ono;Masanori Hata;Masanori Hata;Masato Tsunekawa;Masato Tsunekawa;Kengo Nozaki

  • Photonic crystals for micro lightwave circuits using wavelength-dependent angular beam steering

    Hideo Kosaka;Takayuki Kawashima;Akihisa Tomita;Masaya Notomi;Masaya Notomi

  • Large-scale integration of wavelength-addressable all-optical memories on a photonic crystal chip

    Eiichi Kuramochi;Kengo Nozaki;Akihiko Shinya;Koji Takeda

  • Superprism phenomena in photonic crystals: toward microscale lightwave circuits

    H. Kosaka;T. Kawashima;A. Tomita;M. Notomi

  • Ultralow-power all-optical RAM based on nanocavities

    Kengo Nozaki;Akihiko Shinya;Shinji Matsuo;Yasumasa Suzaki

  • Disorder-induced scattering loss of line-defect waveguides in photonic crystal slabs

    E. Kuramochi;M. Notomi;S. Hughes;A. Shinya

  • Ultrahigh-Q Nanocavity with 1D Photonic Gap

    M Notomi;E Kuramochi;H Taniyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Akihiko Shinya
Akihiko Shinya NTT (Japan)
Eiichi Kuramochi
Eiichi Kuramochi NTT (Japan)
Shinji Matsuo
Shinji Matsuo NTT (Japan)
Takasumi Tanabe
Takasumi Tanabe Keio University
Toshiaki Tamamura
Toshiaki Tamamura NTT Electronics
R Richard Nötzel
R Richard Nötzel South China Normal University
Yong-Hang Zhang
Yong-Hang Zhang Arizona State University
Yuzo Yoshikuni
Yuzo Yoshikuni Kitasato University
Toshihiko Baba
Toshihiko Baba Yokohama National University

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