Laser Technology Laboratory
Chief Scientist
Katsumi MIDORIKAWA (D.Eng.)
Novel nonlinear phenomena caused by interaction of ultrashort intense laser pulses with matters are investigated for creation of coherent x-ray sources including x-ray lasers and high-order harmonics. Nonlinear optical phenomena in the soft x-ray region and generation of ultrashort pulses in the region of attosecond seconds are pursued by use of high-order harmonics. In addition, applications of short wavelength and ultrashort laser pulses to material processing and multiphoton microscopy are studied.
- Ultrashort high intensity lasers and their applications to strong field interaction
- Generation of ultrafast XUV radiation and its application to nonlinear optics in the soft x-ray region
- Generation and measurement of attosecond pulses
- Femtosecond laser processing
- Novel multiphoton microscopy with ultraboradband laser pulses
- March 23, 2007
- Laser Technology Laboratory of DRI succeeded in the world's first detection of the electron movement during a moment of 690 atoseconds by focusing an extremely short-pulsed laser on gaseous atoms and/or molecules.
- Midorikawa, K.:
"High-order harmonic generation and attosecond science"
Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 50, 09001 (2011). - Togashi, T., Takahashi, E. J., Midorikawa, K., Aoyama, M., Yamakawa, K., Sato, T., Iwasaski, A., Owada, S., Okino, T., Yamanouchi, K., Kannari, F., Yagishita, A., Nakano, H., Couprie, M. E., Fukai, K., Hatsui, T., Hara, T., Kamehsima, T., Kitamura, H., Kumagai, N., Matsubara, S., Nagasono, M., Ohashi, H., Ohshima, T., Otake, Y., Shintake, T., Tamasaku, K., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, T., Togawa, K., Tomizawa, H., Takahiro, T., Ybashi, M., and Ishikawa, T.:
"Extreme ultraviolet free electron laser seeded with high-order harmonic of Ti:sapphire laser"
Opt. Exp., 19, 317-324 (2011). - Lan, P., Takahashi, E. J., and Midorikawa, K.:
"Isolated-attosecond-pulse generation with infrared double optical gating"
Phys. Rev. A, 83, 063839 (2011). - Zhang, Q. B., Takahashi, E. J., Muecke, O. D., Lu, P. X., and Midorikawa, K.:
"Dual-chirped optical parametric amplification for generating few hundred mJ infrared pulses"
Opt. Exp., 19, 7190-7212 (2011). - Hanada, Y., Sugioka, K., Shihira-Ishikawa, I., Kawano, H., Miyawaki, A., and Midorikawa, K.:
"3D micorfluidic chips with integrated functional microelements fabricated by a femtosecond laser for studying the gliding mechanism cyanobacteria"
Lab on a Chip, 11, 2109-2115 (2011). - Isobe, K., Suda, A., Tanaka, M., Hashimoto, H., Kannari, F., Kawano, H., Mizuno, H., Miyawaki, A., and Midorikawa, K.:
"Nonlinear optical microscopy and spectroscopy employing octave spanning pulses"
IEEE J. Selec. Topic. in Quantum Electron., 16, 767-780 (2010). - Takahashi, E. J., Lan, P., Muecke, O. D., Nabekawa, Y., and Midorikawa, K.:
"Infrared t-wo-color multicycle laser field synthesis for generating intense attosecond pulse"
Phys. Rev. Lett., 104, 233901 (2010). - Takahashi, E. J., Kanai, T., and Midorikawa, K.:
"High-order harmonic generation by an ultrafast infrared pulse: Efficient generation of a coherent "water window" x-ray"
Appl. Phys. B, 100, 29-41 (2010). - Nabekawa, Y., Amani Eilanlou, A., Furukawa, Y., Ishikawa, K. L., Takahashi, H., and Midorikawa, K.:
"Multi-terawatt laser system generating 12-fs pulses at 100 Hz repetition rate"
Appl. Phys. B, 101, 523-534 (2010). - Furukawa, Y., Nabekawa, Y., Okino, T., Saugout, S., Yamanouchi, K., and Midorikawa, K.:
"Nonlinear Fourier-transform spectroscopy of D2 using high-order harmonic radiation"
Phys. Rev. A, 82, 013421 (2010).
Principal Investigator
- Katsumi MIDORIKAWA
- Chief Scientist
Staff Scientist
- Koji SUGIOKA
- Senior Research Scientist
- Tohru KOBAYASHI
- Senior Research Scientist
- Yutaka NAGATA
- Senior Research Scientist
- Yasuo NABEKAWA
- Senior Research Scientist
- Eiji TAKAHASHI
- Senior Research Scientist
- Masuki KAWAMOTO
- Senior Research Scientist
- Yusuke FURUKAWA
- ASI Research Scientist
- Keisuke ISOBE
- ASI Research Scientist
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Natsuki KANDA
- Special Postdoctoral Researcher
- Jian XU
- Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher
- Yuxi FU
- Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher
- Erik Viktor LOETSTEDT
- Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher
- Pengfei LAN
- Contract Researcher
- Abdolreza AMANI EILANLOU
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Kanaka Raju PANDIRI
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Student Trainee
- Sizhu WU
- International Program Associate
Administrative Assistant
- Takiko WAKABAYASHI
- Technical Assistant