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Yoshitomo Okawachi

Yoshitomo Okawachi

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
60
Citations
15239
World Ranking
2155
National Ranking
683

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - OSA Fellows Yoshitomo Okawachi Columbia University, USA For pioneering contributions to slow light based on stimulated scattering and chip-based optical frequency combs

Overview

Yoshitomo Okawachi is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, specializing in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics as well as Electrical and Electronic Engineering. They also have contributions in Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, and Biophysics.

Their work covers a range of topics including advanced fiber laser technologies, photonic and optical devices, mechanical and optical resonators, optical network technologies, laser-matter interactions and applications, photonic crystal and fiber optics, and advanced photonic communication systems.

Okawachi has contributed to multiple publications in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Optica
  • Optics Letters
  • Nature

Selected recent papers highlight their involvement in cutting-edge photonics and optics research:

  • "Integrated femtosecond pulse generator on thin-film lithium niobate" (2022, Nature)
  • "Near-Degenerate Quadrature-Squeezed Vacuum Generation on a Silicon-Nitride Chip" (2020, Physical Review Letters)
  • "Massively scalable Kerr comb-driven silicon photonic link" (2023, Nature Photonics)
  • "Raman lasing and soliton mode-locking in lithium niobate microresonators" (2020, Light Science & Applications)
  • "Chip-based self-referencing using integrated lithium niobate waveguides" (2020, Optica)

Frequent collaborators in Okawachi's research include Alexander L. Gaeta, Michal Lipson, Xingchen Ji, Bok Young Kim, and Jae K. Jang. The volume of joint publications suggests ongoing and significant cooperative work within the photonics community.

Okawachi has been recognized as an OSA Fellow in 2021 for pioneering contributions to slow light based on stimulated scattering and chip-based optical frequency combs. This award acknowledges their specific advances within optical science and engineering disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Tunable all-optical delays via Brillouin slow light in an optical fiber.

    Yoshitomo Okawachi;Matthew S. Bigelow;Jay E. Sharping;Zhaoming Zhu

  • Battery-operated integrated frequency comb generator.

    Brian Stern;Xingchen Ji;Xingchen Ji;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Alexander L. Gaeta

  • Broadband mid-infrared frequency comb generation in a Si(3)N(4) microresonator.

    Kevin Luke;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Michael R E Lamont;Alexander L Gaeta

  • Octave-spanning frequency comb generation in a silicon nitride chip.

    Yoshitomo Okawachi;Kasturi Saha;Jacob S Levy;Y Henry Wen

  • Ultra-low-loss on-chip resonators with sub-milliwatt parametric oscillation threshold

    Xingchen Ji;Felippe A. S. Barbosa;Samantha P. Roberts;Avik Dutt

  • Silicon-chip mid-infrared frequency comb generation

    Austin G. Griffith;Ryan K.W. Lau;Jaime Cardenas;Yoshitomo Okawachi

  • Wide bandwidth slow light using a Raman fiber amplifier

    Jay E. Sharping;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Alexander L. Gaeta

  • On-chip dual-comb source for spectroscopy

    Avik Dutt;Avik Dutt;Chaitanya Joshi;Chaitanya Joshi;Xingchen Ji;Xingchen Ji;Jaime Cardenas

  • Thermally controlled comb generation and soliton modelocking in microresonators.

    Chaitanya Joshi;Jae K Jang;Kevin Luke;Xingchen Ji

  • Silicon-chip-based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy.

    Mengjie Yu;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Austin G. Griffith;Nathalie Picqué

  • Fully integrated ultra-low power Kerr comb generation

    Brian Stern;Xingchen Ji;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Alexander L. Gaeta

  • Breaking the Loss Limitation of On-chip High-confinement Resonators

    Xingchen Ji;Felippe A. S. Barbosa;Samantha P. Roberts;Avik Dutt

  • Modelocking and femtosecond pulse generation in chip-based frequency combs.

    Kasturi Saha;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Bonggu Shim;Jacob S. Levy

  • Demonstration of temporal cloaking

    Moti Fridman;Alessandro Farsi;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Alexander L. Gaeta

  • Ultrabroadband supercontinuum generation in a CMOS-compatible platform

    R. Halir;Y. Okawachi;J. S. Levy;M. A. Foster

  • Route to stabilized ultrabroadband microresonator-based frequency combs

    Michael R. E. Lamont;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Alexander L. Gaeta

  • Mode-locked mid-infrared frequency combs in a silicon microresonator

    Mengjie Yu;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Austin G. Griffith;Michal Lipson

  • All-optical slow-light on a photonic chip

    Yoshitomo Okawachi;Mark A. Foster;Jay E. Sharping;Alexander L. Gaeta

  • All-optical, wavelength and bandwidth preserving, pulse delay based on parametric wavelength conversion and dispersion.

    Jay E. Sharping;Yoshitomo Okawachi;James van Howe;Chris Xu

  • Octave-spanning coherent supercontinuum generation in a silicon nitride waveguide

    Adrea R. Johnson;Aline S. Mayer;Alexander Klenner;Kevin Luke

  • Silicon-Chip Mid-Infrared Frequency Comb Generation

    Austin G. Griffith;Ryan K. W. Lau;Jaime Cardenas;Yoshitomo Okawachi

  • Diamond Nonlinear Photonics

    Marko Loncar;Pawel Latawiec;Vivek Venkataraman;Michael Burek

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander L. Gaeta
Alexander L. Gaeta Columbia University
Michal Lipson
Michal Lipson Columbia University
Mark A. Foster
Mark A. Foster Johns Hopkins University
Marko Loncar
Marko Loncar Harvard University
Ursula Keller
Ursula Keller ETH Zurich
Chris Xu
Chris Xu Cornell University
Keren Bergman
Keren Bergman Columbia University
Robert W. Boyd
Robert W. Boyd University of Ottawa
Carsten Langrock
Carsten Langrock Keysight Technologies (United States)
Martin M. Fejer
Martin M. Fejer Stanford University

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