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Shinji Yamashita

Shinji Yamashita

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
45
Citations
8225
World Ranking
3549
National Ranking
130

Shinji Yamashita publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shinji Yamashita sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 450 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Shinji Yamashita D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shinji Yamashita sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - OSA Fellows Shinji Yamashita RCAST, The University of Tokyo, Japan “for pioneering contributions to fiber lasers, including carbon nanotube and graphene photonics based ultrafast pulse generation and signal processing, and fast wavelength-swept dispersion-tuned lasers for optical coherent tomography” (Engineering and Science Research)

Overview

Shinji Yamashita is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan, focusing on research in engineering and physics. Their work covers a broad range of topics primarily centered around fiber laser technologies and photonics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Medicine

Subfields of study highlight specialization in:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Surgery
  • Instrumentation
  • Biomedical Engineering

The core topics of their research work involve:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications

Shinji Yamashita has a notable publication record spanning several renowned venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Optics Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Optics Express
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology

Frequent co-authors working alongside Yamashita include:

  • Sze Yun Set
  • Takuma Shirahata
  • Maolin Dai
  • Bowen Liu
  • Lei Jin

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Yamashita include:

  • "Fiber-based dynamically tunable Lyot filter for dual-wavelength and tunable single-wavelength mode-locking of fiber lasers," 2020, Optics Express
  • "Towards an ultrafast 3D imaging scanning LiDAR system: a review," 2024, Photonics Research
  • "Hyperuniform Disordered Solids with Morphology Engineering," 2023, Laser & Photonics Review
  • "2.5 GHz harmonic mode locking from a femtosecond Yb-doped fiber laser with high fundamental repetition rate," 2021, Optics Letters
  • "Neutron lifetime measurement with pulsed cold neutrons," 2020, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

Among honors received, Shinji Yamashita was awarded as an OSA Fellow in 2017 for contributions related to fiber lasers, including ultrafast pulse generation using carbon nanotube and graphene photonics, and for advancements in fast wavelength-swept dispersion-tuned lasers applied in optical coherence tomography.

Best Publications

  • Saturable absorbers incorporating carbon nanotubes directly synthesized onto substrates and fibers and their application to mode-locked fiber lasers

    S Yamashita;Y Inoue;S Maruyama;Y Murakami

  • Multiwavelength erbium-doped fibre laser using intracavity etalon and cooled by liquid nitrogen

    S. Yamashita;K. Hotate

  • A Tutorial on Nonlinear Photonic Applications of Carbon Nanotube and Graphene

    S. Yamashita

  • Optical deposition of graphene and carbon nanotubes in a fiber ferrule for passive mode-locked lasing

    Amos Martinez;Kazuyuki Fuse;Bo Xu;Shinji Yamashita

  • Carbon nanotube mode lockers with enhanced nonlinearity via evanescent field interaction in D-shaped fibers.

    Yong-Won Song;Shinji Yamashita;Chee S. Goh;Sze Y. Set

  • Mechanical exfoliation of graphene for the passive mode-locking of fiber lasers

    Amos Martinez;Kazuyuki Fuse;Shinji Yamashita

  • Multi-gigahertz repetition rate passively modelocked fiber lasers using carbon nanotubes

    Amos Martinez;Shinji Yamashita

  • Widely tunable erbium-doped fiber ring laser covering both C-band and L-band

    S. Yamashita

  • Nonlinear optics in carbon nanotube, graphene, and related 2D materials

    Shinji Yamashita

  • Deposition of carbon nanotubes around microfiber via evanascent light

    Ken Kashiwagi;Shinji Yamashita

  • Anisotropic Nd–Fe–B thin‐film magnets for milli‐size motor

    S. Yamashita;J. Yamasaki;M. Ikeda;N. Iwabuchi

  • Single-walled carbon nanotubes for high-energy optical pulse formation

    Yong-Won Song;Shinji Yamashita;Shigeo Maruyama

  • 10 GHz fundamental mode fiber laser using a graphene saturable absorber

    Amos Martinez;Shinji Yamashita

  • Energy Management Mechanism for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs)

    Y. Yan;S.-W. Wong;L. Valcarenghi;S.-H. Yen

  • Fast and wide tuning range wavelength-swept fiber laser based on dispersion tuning and its application to dynamic FBG sensing.

    Yuichi Nakazaki;Shinji Yamashita

  • 5-GHz pulsed fiber Fabry-Pe/spl acute/rot laser mode-locked using carbon nanotubes

    S. Yamashita;Y. Inoue;K. Hsu;T. Kotake

  • Polarization insensitive all-fiber mode-lockers functioned by carbon nanotubes deposited onto tapered fibers

    Yong-Won Song;Keiyo Morimune;Sze Y. Set;Shinji Yamashita

  • Wide and fast wavelength-tunable mode-locked fiber laser based on dispersion tuning.

    Shinji Yamashita;Masahiro Asano

  • In-situ monitoring of optical deposition of carbon nanotubes onto fiber end

    Ken Kashiwagi;Shinji Yamashita;Sze Yun Set

  • Energy efficiency in passive optical networks: where, when, and how?

    L. Valcarenghi;Dung Pham Van;Pier Giorgio Raponi;P. Castoldi

  • Passively mode-locked lasers with 17.2-GHz fundamental-mode repetition rate pulsed by carbon nanotubes

    Yong-Won Song;Shinji Yamashita;Chee S. Goh;Sze Y. Set

Frequent Co-Authors

Sze Yun Set
Sze Yun Set University of Tokyo
Shigeo Maruyama
Shigeo Maruyama University of Tokyo
Kazuo Hotate
Kazuo Hotate Toyota Technological Institute
Yosuke Mizuno
Yosuke Mizuno Yokohama National University
Kentaro Nakamura
Kentaro Nakamura Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kazuro Kikuchi
Kazuro Kikuchi National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education
Kaiming Zhou
Kaiming Zhou Aston University
Leonid G. Kazovsky
Leonid G. Kazovsky Stanford University
Ian Bennion
Ian Bennion Aston University
T. Okoshi
T. Okoshi University of Tokyo

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