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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to optical amplification
  • 2007 - OSA Fellows For contributions to the development of key pumping technologies of EDFA and Raman amplifiers for WDM transmission systems.

Overview

Shu Namiki is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a specialized emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering. Their body of work also intersects with atomic and molecular physics and optics, artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, and information systems.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Advanced Optical Network Technologies
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors

Namiki has contributed extensively to the scientific community through numerous publications. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2022
  • Optics Communications

Some recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Namiki are:

  • "Semiconductor optical amplifiers: recent advances and applications," 2022, Advances in Optics and Photonics
  • "Roadmap on optical communications," 2024, Journal of Optics
  • "On-chip bacterial foraging training in silicon photonic circuits for projection-enabled nonlinear classification," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Simple and fully CMOS-compatible low-loss fiber coupling structure for a silicon photonics platform," 2020, Optics Letters
  • "Large-scale silicon photonics switch based on 45-nm CMOS technology," 2020, Optics Communications

Namiki collaborates frequently with several researchers, demonstrating ongoing cooperative work in their field. These frequent co-authors include:

  • Keijiro Suzuki
  • Kazuhiro Ikeda
  • Takashi Inoue
  • Ryotaro Konoike
  • Ryosuke Matsumoto

Namiki's contributions have been formally recognized, having received notable distinctions such as:

  • IEEE Fellow, 2017, for contributions to optical amplification
  • OSA Fellow, 2007, for contributions to the development of key pumping technologies of EDFA and Raman amplifiers for WDM transmission systems

Best Publications

  • Ultrabroad-band Raman amplifiers pumped and gain-equalized by wavelength-division-multiplexed high-power laser diodes

    S. Namiki;Y. Emori

  • Raman amplifier, optical repeater, and raman amplification method

    Youichi Akasaka;Yoshihiro Emori;Shu Namiki

  • 100 nm bandwidth flat-gain Raman amplifiers pumped and gain-equalised by 12-wavelength-channel WDM laser diode unit

    Y. Emori;K. Tanaka;S. Namiki

  • Ultra-compact 32 × 32 strictly-non-blocking Si-wire optical switch with fan-out LGA interposer.

    Ken Tanizawa;Keijiro Suzuki;Munehiro Toyama;Minoru Ohtsuka

  • Sub-200-fs pulsed erbium-doped fiber laser using a carbon nanotube-polyvinylalcohol mode locker

    Aleksey G. Rozhin;Youichi Sakakibara;Shu Namiki;Madoka Tokumoto

  • Low-Insertion-Loss and Power-Efficient 32 × 32 Silicon Photonics Switch With Extremely High-Δ Silica PLC Connector

    Keijiro Suzuki;Ryotaro Konoike;Junichi Hasegawa;Satoshi Suda

  • 100 nm bandwidth flat gain Raman amplifiers pumped and gain-equalized by 12-wavelength-channel WDM high power laser diodes

    Y. Emori;S. Namiki

  • Self-switching of optical pulses in dispersion-imbalanced nonlinear loop mirrors

    William S. Wong;Shu Namiki;Mordechai Margalit;Hermann A. Haus

  • Ultra-compact 8 × 8 strictly-non-blocking Si-wire PILOSS switch

    Keijiro Suzuki;Ken Tanizawa;Takashi Matsukawa;Guangwei Cong

  • Ultra-high-extinction-ratio 2 × 2 silicon optical switch with variable splitter

    Keijiro Suzuki;Guangwei Cong;Ken Tanizawa;Sang-Hun Kim

  • Noise of the stretched pulse fiber laser. I. Theory

    S. Namiki;H.A. Haus

  • Ultrahigh-Definition Video Transmission and Extremely Green Optical Networks for Future

    S Namiki;T Kurosu;K Tanizawa;J Kurumida

  • 6.4-Tb/s (160×42.7 Gb/s) transmission with 0.8 bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency over 32×100 km of fiber using CSRZ-DPSK format

    Benyuan Zhu;Lynn E. Nelson;Scott Stulz;Alan H. Gnauck

  • Energy rate equations for mode-locked lasers

    Shu Namiki;Erich P. Ippen;Hermann A. Haus;Charles X. Yu

  • Semiconductor optical amplifiers: Recent advances and applications

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  • Broadband four-wave mixing generation in short optical fibres

    O. Aso;Shin-Ichi Arai;T. Yagi;M. Tadakuma

  • Ultrafast all-optical logic gate using a nonlinear optical loop mirror based multi-periodic transfer function

    Yuji Miyoshi;Kensuke Ikeda;Hideaki Tobioka;Takashi Inoue

  • Pulse compression techniques using highly nonlinear fibers

    Takashi Inoue;Shu Namiki

  • Raman amplifier system, apparatus and method for identifying, obtaining and maintaining an arbitrary Raman amplification performance

    Shu Namiki;Yoshihiro Emori;Mikio Ogai

  • All-optical demultiplexing of 160–10Gbit∕s signals with Mach-Zehnder interferometric switch utilizing intersubband transition in InGaAs∕AlAs∕AlAsSb quantum well

    R. Akimoto;T. Simoyama;H. Tsuchida;S. Namiki

  • Cost-effective depolarized diode pump unit designed for C-band flat-gain Raman amplifiers to control EDFA gain profile

    Y. Emori;S.-I. Matsushita;S. Namiki

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuhiro Ikeda
Kazuhiro Ikeda National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Mark Pelusi
Mark Pelusi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Ken-ichi Kitayama
Ken-ichi Kitayama Osaka University
Ken-ichi Sato
Ken-ichi Sato Nagoya University
Benjamin J. Eggleton
Benjamin J. Eggleton University of Sydney
David Marpaung
David Marpaung University of Twente
Christopher R. Doerr
Christopher R. Doerr Doerr Consulting LLC
Yoshinari Awaji
Yoshinari Awaji National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Toshio Morioka
Toshio Morioka Technical University of Denmark

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