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Yasuhiko Arakawa

Yasuhiko Arakawa

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Japan
2026
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Materials Science
Japan
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
88
Citations
42250
World Ranking
314
National Ranking
6

Materials Science

D-Index
88
Citations
42701
World Ranking
1827
National Ranking
72

Physics

D-Index
91
Citations
44108
World Ranking
2143
National Ranking
57

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2019 - IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal “For contributions to the development and commercialization of quantum dot lasers.”
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to quantum dot lasers and related nanophotonic devices.
  • 2011 - OSA Fellows For seminal contributions to quantum dot lasers and related nanophotonic devices.
  • 2009 - IEEE David Sarnoff Award “For seminal contributions to improved dynamics of quantum well semiconductor lasers.”
  • 2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the understanding of quantum confinement effects in semiconductor lasers and the development of quantum dot lasers.

Overview

Yasuhiko Arakawa is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with significant contributions in various subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Materials Chemistry; Biomedical Engineering; and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's work focuses on several key topics: photonic and optical devices, semiconductor quantum structures and devices, photonic crystals and applications, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, topological materials and phenomena, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, and quantum dots synthesis and properties.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Semiconductor quantum dots: Technological progress and future challenges, 2021, Science
  • Progress in quantum-dot single photon sources for quantum information technologies: A broad spectrum overview, 2020, Applied Physics Reviews
  • Slow light waveguides in topological valley photonic crystals, 2020, Optics Letters
  • Microcavity-based generation of full Poincaré beams with arbitrary skyrmion numbers, 2021, Physical Review Research
  • Recent progress in topological waveguides and nanocavities in a semiconductor photonic crystal platform [Invited], 2021, Optical Materials Express

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Satoshi Iwamoto
  • Yasutomo Ota
  • Jinkwan Kwoen
  • Masahiro Kakuda
  • Ryota Katsumi

The venues where Yasuhiko Arakawa has published most frequently include:

  • Applied Physics Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Optics Express
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Physical Review B

Recognition for Arakawa's work includes several awards:

  • IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal (2019) for contributions to the development and commercialization of quantum dot lasers
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2017) for contributions to quantum dot lasers and related nanophotonic devices
  • OSA Fellow (2011) for seminal contributions to quantum dot lasers and related nanophotonic devices
  • IEEE David Sarnoff Award (2009) for seminal contributions to improved dynamics of quantum well semiconductor lasers
  • IEEE Fellow (2006) for contributions to the understanding of quantum confinement effects in semiconductor lasers and the development of quantum dot lasers

Best Publications

  • Multidimensional quantum well laser and temperature dependence of its threshold current

    Y. Arakawa;H. Sakaki

  • Observation of the coupled exciton-photon mode splitting in a semiconductor quantum microcavity.

    C. Weisbuch;M. Nishioka;A. Ishikawa;Y. Arakawa

  • Semiconductor quantum dots: Technological progress and future challenges

    F. Pelayo García de Arquer;Dmitri V. Talapin;Victor I. Klimov;Yasuhiko Arakawa

  • Controlling the spontaneous emission rate of single quantum dots in a two-dimensional photonic crystal.

    Dirk Englund;David Fattal;Edo Waks;Glenn Solomon

  • Quantum well lasers--Gain, spectra, dynamics

    Y. Arakawa;A. Yariv

  • Photonic crystal nanocavity based on a topological corner state

    Yasutomo Ota;Feng Liu;Ryota Katsumi;Katsuyuki Watanabe

  • A gallium nitride single-photon source operating at 200 K.

    Satoshi Kako;Charles Santori;Charles Santori;Charles Santori;Katsuyuki Hoshino;Katsuyuki Hoshino;Stephan Götzinger;Stephan Götzinger

  • EFFICIENT CARRIER RELAXATION MECHANISM IN INGAAS/GAAS SELF-ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS BASED ON THE EXISTENCE OF CONTINUUM STATES

    Y. Toda;O. Moriwaki;M. Nishioka;Y. Arakawa

  • Room-Temperature Triggered Single Photon Emission from a III-Nitride Site-Controlled Nanowire Quantum Dot

    Mark J. Holmes;Kihyun Choi;Satoshi Kako;Munetaka Arita

  • III-V/Si hybrid photonic devices by direct fusion bonding

    Katsuaki Tanabe;Katsuyuki Watanabe;Yasuhiko Arakawa

  • Laser oscillation in a strongly coupled single-quantum-dot–nanocavity system

    M. Nomura;N. Kumagai;S. Iwamoto;Y. Ota

  • RAPID CARRIER RELAXATION IN SELF-ASSEMBLED INXGA1-XAS/GAAS QUANTUM DOTS

    B. Ohnesorge;M. Albrecht;J. Oshinowo;A. Forchel

  • Topological photonic crystal nanocavity laser

    Yasutomo Ota;Ryota Katsumi;Katsuyuki Watanabe;Satoshi Iwamoto

  • Theory of gain, modulation response, and spectral linewidth in AlGaAs quantum well lasers

    Y. Arakawa;A. Yariv

  • Over 1.5 μm light emission from InAs quantum dots embedded in InGaAs strain-reducing layer grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

    Jun Tatebayashi;Masao Nishioka;Yasuhiko Arakawa

  • Progress in quantum-dot single photon sources for quantum information technologies: A broad spectrum overview

    Yasuhiko Arakawa;Mark J. Holmes

  • Quantum noise and dynamics in quantum well and quantum wire lasers

    Yasuhiko Arakawa;Kerry Vahala;Amnon Yariv

  • Highly uniform InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots (∼15 nm) by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

    J. Oshinowo;M. Nishioka;S. Ishida;Y. Arakawa

  • Room temperature lasing at blue wavelengths in gallium nitride microcavities

    Takao Someya;Ralph Werner;Alfred Forchel;Massimo Catalano

  • Recent progress in self-assembled quantum-dot optical devices for optical telecommunication: temperature-insensitive 10 Gb s−1 directly modulated lasers and 40 Gb s−1 signal-regenerative amplifiers

    M Sugawara;N Hatori;M Ishida;H Ebe

  • Silicon photonics for next generation system integration platform

    Y. Arakawa;T. Nakamura;Y. Urino;T. Fujita

  • Pentacene-based organic field-effect transistors

    Masatoshi Kitamura;Yasuhiko Arakawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Satoshi Iwamoto
Satoshi Iwamoto University of Tokyo
Masahiro Nomura
Masahiro Nomura University of Tokyo
Takao Someya
Takao Someya University of Tokyo
Yoshiaki Nakata
Yoshiaki Nakata University of Tokyo
Amnon Yariv
Amnon Yariv California Institute of Technology
Naoki Yokoyama
Naoki Yokoyama Apple (United States)
Kazuhiko Hirakawa
Kazuhiko Hirakawa University of Tokyo
Hiroyuki Fujita
Hiroyuki Fujita Tokyo City University
Marek Osinski
Marek Osinski University of New Mexico
Robert A. Taylor
Robert A. Taylor University of New South Wales

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