Ultrafast All-Optical Signal Processing Devices

Dr Hiroshi Ishikawa, Tsukuba, Japan
Dr Ishikawa is the Director of the Ultrafast Photonic Devices Laboratory in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. He worked for research and development of optical semiconductor devices in Fujitsu Labs Ltd from 1972 to 2001. In 2001 he moved to Femtosecond Technology Research Association Central Res. Lab. as a group leader of ultrafast all-optical switching devices. He is at AIST since 2004. He is a member of Japan Society of Applied Physics, The Physical Society of Japan, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, and IEEE (Fellow).