RIKEN Baton Zone Program Mid-Infrared Laser Source Laboratory
Team Leader: Shinichi Imai（Ph.D.)
Deputy Team Leader: Masaki Yumoto (Ph.D.）
Research Summary
The mid-infrared region holds many molecular fingerprint signatures important in various sensing applications. We are going to realize mid-infrared laser light source which can be equipped with in the vehicles, drones and instrumentations for these purposes. The light source consists of fundamental laser light and optical-nonlinear devices. We would like to make their size much more compact with advanced concepts of laser configurations.
[Integrated Collaborative Research with: Oxide Corporation]
Main Research Fields
- Engineering
Related Research Fields
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
- Chemistry
Keywords
- mid-infrared
- lasers
- wavelength conversion
- nonlinear optics
- quantum electronics
Selected Publications
Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.
- 1.
Y. Okabayashi, Y. Tomihari, M. Yumoto, S. Imai.:
"Burst pulse generation in Cr:ZnSe laser with mid-infrared tunability"
Opt. Eng. 61(3), 036105 (2022) - 2.
Y. Okabayashi, Y. Tomihari, M. Yumoto, S. Imai.:
"Pulse-on-demand Cr:ZnSe laser"
Proceedings Volume 11980, Solid State Lasers XXXI: Technology and Devices; 119800E (2022) - 3.
Y. Okabayashi, Y. Tomihari, S. Imai, M. Yumoto, S. Wada, and Y. Furukawa.:
"2 µm Tm:YAG laser with pulse-on-demand operation"
Proc. SPIE LASE, paper 11664-2 (2021). - 4.
M. Yumoto, N. Saito, and S. Wada.:
"52 mJ/pulse, electronically tuned Cr:ZnSe MOPA system pumped with Tm:YAG laser"
Opt. Express, Vol. 25, No. 26, pp. 32948-32956 (2017) - 5.
T. Lin, A. Aoki, N. Saito, M. Yumoto, S. Nakajima, K. Nagasaka, S. Ichinose, K. Mizutani, S. Wada, Y. Izumi.:
"Dental hard tissue ablation with a mid-infrared tunable, nanosecond pulsed Cr:CdSe laser"
Lasers in Surgery and Medicine Vol, 39, 76-82 (2016). - 6.
M. Yumoto, N. Saito, U. Takagi and S. Wada.:
"Electronically tuned Cr:ZnSe laser pumped with Q-switched Tm:YAG laser"
Opt. Express 23 (19), 25009-25016 (2015). - 7.
M. Yumoto, N. Saito, Y. Urata, and S.Wada.:
"128 mJ/pulse, laser-diode pumped, Q-switched Tm:YAG laser"
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 21, 1601305 (2015) - 8.
*Y.Furukawa, K.Kitamura, A.Alexandrovski, R.K.Route, M.M.Fejer and G.Foulon.:
"Green induced infrared absorption in Mg:LiNbO3"
Appl. Phys. Lett. 78 1790. (2001) - 9.
*Y.Furukawa, K.Kitamura, S.Takekawa, A.Miyamoto, M.Terao, and N.Suda.:
"Photorefraction in LiNbO3 as a function of [Li]/[Nb] and MgO concentrations"
Appl.Phys.Lett. 77 2494 (2000).
Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Shinichi Imai
- Team Leader
Core members
- Masaki Yumoto
- Deputy Team Leader
- Yusuke Okabayashi
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Satoshi Makio
- Visiting Scientist
- Junji Hirohashi
- Visiting Scientist
- Yasuhiro Tomihari
- Visiting Technician
Contact Information
Email: shinichi.imai [at] riken.jp