Minoshima Laboratory, UEC

JST-ERATO MINOSHIMA Intelligent Optical Synthesizer Project

(Paper) The following paper was published in APL Photonics.
Ruichen Zhu, Akifumi Asahara, Takashi Kato, Kaoru Minoshima;
"Advanced circular dichroism measurements with coherent circular polarization switching in dual-comb spectroscopy"
2025/11/12
(Paper) The following paper was published in APL Photonics.
Prasad Koviri, Takahisa Kuwana, Hajime Komori, Masahiro Ishizeki, Takashi Kato, Akifumi Asahara, Thomas R. Schibli, Ryosuke Shimizu, Kaoru Minoshima;
"Time–frequency mode structure study of ultrafast two-photon quantum state with two-color dual-comb-based optical sampling"
2025/5/22
We presented a Plenary talk at APLS 2025, Jeju Island, Korea
Minoshima
2025/5/14
We presented a paper at CLEO 2025, Longbeach, USA.
Kato
2025/5/7
We will present 6 papers at ALPS/OPIC 2025.
Komori, Ito, Urano, Kamata, Kato, Asahara
2025/4/23
Sekiguchi received the Student Poster Presentation Awards at the Laser Society Tokyo Branch Meeting, LSJ
2025/4/2
Shimizu received the Student Poster Presentation Awards at the Laser Society Tokyo Branch Meeting, LSJ
2025/3/31
We will present a paper at Photonics West.
Ishizeki
2025/1/29
We will host and organize the Optics & Photonics Japan (OPJ 2024), Optical Society of Japan!
2024/11/29-12/1
We will present three talks including an invited paper at ICO-26, Cape Town, South Africa.
Minoshima (Invited), Kato, Asahara
2024/10/21
We will present an invited paper at FiO/LS 2024.
Minoshima
2024/9/26
We will present 10 papers at the CLEO-PR 2024.
Koviri, Zhu, Ishizeki, Nagao, Nishimoto, Hitotsumatsu, Cuevas, Kato, Asahara, Minoshima (Invited)
2024/8/5-9
Zhu received The Best Students Oral Paper Award at the ALPS 2024
2024/4/26
We will present 3 papers at the CLEO 2024.
Zhu, Kato, Asahara
2024/5/5-10
We will present 10 papers at ALPS/OPIC 2024.
Zhu, Ishizeki, Komori, Hino, Nagao, Nishimoto, Hitotsumatsu, Cuevas, Kato, Asahara
2024/4/24
Ito received the Best Poster Presentation Award, the Gold Prize, at the Laser Society Tokyo Branch Meeting, LSJ
2024/3/16
We will present an invited paper at Photonics Europe.
Minoshima
2024/4/9
The following paper was published in Applied Physics Express.
P. Koviri, H. Komori, H. Tian, M. Ishizeki, T. Kato, A. Asahara, R. Shimizu, T.R. Schibli, K. Minoshima,
"Single-photon level ultrafast time-resolved measurement using two-color dual-comb-based asynchronous linear optical sampling"
2024/2/14
We will present 2 papers at Photonics West.
Komori, Koviri
2024/1/28
Komori received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Next-Generation Fiber Laser Meeting, LSJ
2024/1/22
The following paper was published in Optics Letters.
Haochen Tian, Ruichen Zhu, Runmin Li, Sida Xing, Thomas R. Schibli, and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Broadband, high-power optical frequency combs covering visible to near-infrared spectral range"
2024/1/19
We will present 2 papers at LSJ Annual Meeting.
Nagao, Mitsumoto
2024/1/19
We will present 6 papers at Optics & Photonics Japan 2023
Koviri, Nekoshima, Fukawa, Zhu, Kato, Mitsumoto
2023/11/27-29
We will present 3 papers at Next-Generation Fiber Laser Meeting, Laser Society Japan
Nagasaki, Akuzawa, Komori
2023/11/17
Akuzawa received the Best Student Presentation Award at the APLS 2023
2023/9/29
We presented 3 papers at the JSAP Fall Meeting 2023
Hino, Komori, Nishimoto
2023/9/21
We presented 3 papers at the ISMTII 2023
Minoshima(Keynote), Asahara(Invited), Kato(Invited)
2023/9/19
We presented 5 papers at the APLS 2023
Minoshima(Invited), Akuzawaw, Ishizeki, Nagasaki, Cuevas
2023/9/5
We will present 1 paper at the FTS 2023.
Asahara
2023/7/28
We will present an invited talk at the JSAP Topical Meeting.
Minoshima (Invited)
2023/7/27
We will present 2 papers at the CLEO-Europe 2023.
Minoshima (Tutorial), Kato
2023/6/28
We presented 7 papers at the CLEO 2023.
Minoshima (Invited), Asahara, Kato, Zhu, Mitsumoto, Kusex2
2023/5/7-12
We presented 6 papers at the ALPS/OPIC 2023.
R.Li, Koviri, Fukawa, Ishizeki, Kato x2
2023/4/20
Asahara was awarded Young Researcher Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2023/4/7
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Akifumi Asahara, Seishiro Akiyama, and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Dual-comb spectroscopy for in-plane angle measurement using OAM vortex light"
2023/3/23
The following paper was published in Applied Physics Express.
Runmin Li, Haochen Tian, Takashi Kato, Akifumi Asahara, and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Broadband coherently synthesized two-color electro-optic frequency combs with phase noise suppression"
2022/12/28
The following paper was published in Applied Physics Letters.
Haochen Tian, Runmin Li, Takeru Endo, Takashi Kato, Akifumi Asahara, Lukasz A. Sterczewski, and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Dual-comb spectroscopy using free-running mechanical sharing dual-comb fiber lasers"
2022/11/21
The following paper was published in Optics Continuum.
Shintaro Kurata, Hirotaka Ishii, Kazuhiro Terada, Tamaki Morito, Haochen Tian, Takashi Kato, and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Dead-zone free single-shot three-dimensional measurement using a high-repetition-rate Yb:fiber comb"
2022/11/17
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Haochen Tian, Runmin Li, Lukasz A. Sterczewski, Takashi Kato, Akifumi Asahara, and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Quasi-real-time dual-comb spectroscopy with 750-MHz Yb:fiber combs"
2022/7/19
We will present 9 papers at the CLEO-PR 2022.
Kato x2, Tian, R. Li, Endo, Tanaka, J. Li, Zhu, Yoshii
2022/8/2-4
We will present 9 papers at the CLEO:2022.
Kato x2, Asahara, Haochen, R.Li, Nishimoto, Kuse x2, Miyamura
2022/5/15-20
We will present 9 papers at the ALPS 2022.
Endo, Tanaka, J. Li, R. Li, Kurata, Tian, Kato x2, Asahara
2022/4/19
Prof. Minoshima received the Optical Engineering Award from the Japanese Society of Applied Physics
2022/4/4
Prof. Minoshima received the Taizan Awards, Laser Progress Award from the Institute for Laser Technology
2022/4/4
Zhu received The Poster Presentation Award at 558th Meeting of Laser Society Japan.
2021/11/12
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Takashi Kato, Megumi Uchida, Yurina Tanaka, Kaoru Minoshima,
"One-shot three-dimensional imaging using a two-dimensional spectrometer with a fiber bundle"
2021/12/15
Adachi and Kusumi received The Paper Presentation Encouragement Award at 41st Annual Meeting of Laser Society Japan.
2021/10/29
A paper of Nakajima et al., has been highlighted as an Editor's Pick of Optics Letters.
2021/10/27
The following paper was published in Optics Letters.
Yoshiaki Nakajima, Yugo Kusumi, Kaoru Minoshima,
"Mechanical sharing dual-comb fiber laser based on an all-polarization-maintaining cavity configuration"
2021/10/27
We will give 5 presentations at OPJ meeting.
Hasegawa, Li Jiajie, Zhu, Akiyama, Yoshii
2021/10/28
We will give 12 presentations at JSAP annual meeting.
Li Runmin, Tian, Tanaka, Endo, Li Jiajie, Sakuma, Morito, Nishimoto x2, Kato, Yoshii, Kuse
2021/9/10-13
We will give seven presentations at CLEO:2021.
Adachi, Kato, Asahara, Kitora, Nishimoto, Kuse (x2)
2021/5/10-14
We gave five presentations at The ALPS Meeting, 2021.
Morito, Zhu, Hasegawa, Kato, Asahara
2021/4/19-21
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Takahiko Mizuno, Yoshiaki Nakajima, Yuya Hata, Takuya Tsuda, Akifumi Asahara, Takashi Kato, Takeo Minamikawa, Takeshi Yasui, and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Computationally image-corrected dual-comb microscopy with a free-running single-cavity dual-comb fiber laser"
2021/2/15
The following paper was published in Applied Physics Letters.
Bo Xu, Yuxuan Ma, Hirotaka Ishii, Isao Matsushima, Zhigang Zhang, Kaoru Minoshima,
"Nonlinear amplification based on a tightly phase locked 750 MHz Yb:fiber frequency comb"
2021/1/18
The following paper was published in arXiv.
Takashi Kato, Hirotaka Ishii, Kazuhiro Terada, Tamaki Morito, Kaoru Minoshima,
"Fully non-scanning three-dimensional imaging using an all-optical Hilbert transform enabled by an optical frequency comb"
2020/06/16
The following paper was published in Optics Express
Yoshiaki Nakajima, Takuya Hariki, Akiko Nishiyama, and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Phase-stabilized all-fiber-based mode-filtering technique for generating a gigahertz frequency comb"
2020/05/28
The following paper was published in arXiv.
Akifumi Asahara, Satoru Shoji, and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Optical combs and optical vortices combined for spatiotemporal manipulation of light and matter"
2020/05/12
We gave four presentations at CLEO:2020.
Minoshima (Plenary), Asahara, Kato, Nakajima
2020/5/11-15
The following paper was published in Applied Physics Express.
Akifumi Asahara,et al.,
"Dual-comb-based asynchronous pump-probe measurement with an ultrawide temporal dynamic range for characterization of photo-excited InAs quantum dots"
2020/05/05
We gave four presentations at The ALPS Meeting, 2020.
Adachi, Kusumi, Kato, Asahara
2020/4/20-23
We gave six presentations at The 67th JSAP Spring Meeting, 2020.
Akiyama, Asahara, Adachi, Kato, Moritoh, Hasegawa
2020/3/12-15
We gave six presentations at The 20th LSJ Tokyo seminar.
Akiyama, Hasegawa, Moritoh, Kawai, Terada, Yanagisawa
2020/3/9
【Press release】High-resolution 3D imaging method using chirped optical frequency combs based on convolution analysis of the spectral interference fringe
2020/2/17
A paper of Kato et al., was selected as Top Downloaded Articles from OSA Continuum.
2020/1/25
The following paper was published in OSA Continuum.
Takashi Kato et al.,
"High-resolution 3D imaging method using chirped optical frequency combs based on convolution analysis of the spectral interference fringe"
2019/12/18
Prof. Minoshima was featured in JSTnews (in Japanese).
2019/12/18
Prof. Minoshima contributed a review to Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (in Japanese).
2019/12/18
Ishii received The Best Poster Award at Laser Society Workshop.
2019/12/11
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Akiko Nishiyama et al.,
"Optical?optical double-resonance dual-comb spectroscopy with pump-intensity modulation"
2019/12/05
The article of Prof. Minoshima was published in OplusE (in Japanese).
2019/11/25
Prof. Minoshima contributed a review to the Kogaku (in Japanese).
2019/11/10
【Press release】Development of a magneto-optic effect measuring system using dual-comb spectroscopy
2019/11/6
Ultra-Fast Optoelectronics (UFO) technical group meeting was held in UEC.
2019/9/27
The article of Prof. Minoshima was published in The Nikkei (in Japanese).
2019/7/30
We gave nine presentations at The 80th JSAP Autumn Meeting, 2019.
Kusumi, Hata, Asahara, Nakajima, Ikisawa, Adachi, Kato, Ishii
2019/9/19-21
A paper of Nakajima et al., was selected as Top Downloaded Articles in Lasers and Laser Optics from Optics Express.
2019/6/25
A paper of Asahara and Minoshima was selected as Most Cited Articles of APL photonics.
2019/6/25
The following paper was published in Applied Physics Express.
Akifumi Asahara and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Coherent multi-comb pulse control demonstrated in polarization-modulated dual-comb spectroscopy technique"
2019/6/13
ERATO-IOS Project was featured in UEC e-Bulletin.
2019/5/30
Kaoru Minoshima gave 2019 MIT Hermann Anton Haus Lecture (2019/4/11).
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019/5/20
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Yoshiaki Nakajima et al.,
"All-polarization-maintaining, polarization-multiplexed, dual-comb fiber laser with a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror"
2019/5/6
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Yoshiaki Nakajima et al.,
"High-coherence ultra-broadband bidirectional dual-comb fiber laser"
2019/2/20
The following paper was published in Optics Letters.
Yuxuan Ma et al.,
"Low-noise 750??MHz spaced ytterbium fiber frequency combs"
2018/8/22
UEC-ERATO Symposium ?Optical Frequency Comb and Ultrashort Pulse Laser? was held in UEC.
2018/4/23
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Akiko Nishiyama et al.,
"Precise and highly-sensitive Doppler-free two-photon absorption dual-comb spectroscopy using pulse shaping and coherent averaging for fluorescence signal detection"
2018/3/28
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Yoshiaki Nakajima et al.,
"Mode-filtering technique based on all-fiber-based external cavity for fiber-based optical frequency comb"
2018/2/13
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Akiko Nishiyama et al.,
"Sensitivity improvement of dual-comb spectroscopy using mode-filtering technique"
2017/12/6
The following paper was published in ArXiv.
Akifumi Asahara, Kaoru Minoshima
"Multi-optical comb metrology using relative carrier envelope phase control and demonstration for arbitrary polarization modulation"
2017/10/17
ERATO Symposium was held at 2017 JSPE Autumn Meeting.
2017/9/20
UEC-ERATO Symposium ?Recent Progress in Optical Frequency Comb? was held in UEC.
2017/8/26
UEC-ERATO Symposium ?Optical Coherence Tomography and Biomedical Imaging? was held in UEC.
2017/8/25
JST ERATO Joint Symposium was held at ICO-24.
2017/8/24
The following paper was published in Scientific Reports.
Takashi Kato et al.,
"No-scanning 3D measurement method using ultrafast dimensional conversion with a chirped optical frequency comb"
2017/6/16
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Bo Xu et al.,
"Fully stabilized 750-MHz Yb: fiber frequency comb"
2017/5/13
The following paper was published in APL Photonics.
Akifumi Asahara and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Development of ultrafast time-resolved dual-comb spectroscopy"2017/2/21
The following paper was published in Optics Letters.
Akifumi Asahara et al.,
"Dual-comb spectroscopy for rapid characterization of complex optical properties of solids"2016/11/1
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Akiko Nishiyama et al.,
"Doppler-free dual-comb spectroscopy of Rb using optical-optical double resonance technique"2016/10/28
Member list is updated.2016/5/1
Visitors from the Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences2015/12/9
The following paper was published in Optics Express.
Yoshiaki Nakajima and Kaoru Minoshima,
"Highly stabilized optical frequency comb interferometer with a long fiber-based reference path towards arbitrary distance measurement"2015/9/25
Member list is updated.2015/8/10
Prof. Minoshima was elected as a Fellow Member of the Optical Society (OSA).2015/5/13
APS-TV on activities of UEC Tokyo Optical Science Group is online.2015/3/2
Web site of UEC Tokyo Optical Science Group is open.2015/3/2
Minoshima Lab. English site is updated.2015/2/20


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UEC MINOSHIMA Laboratory was established in 2013.
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Optical frequency comb is our main topic. By full use of its capability as “Optical Synthesizer” for controlling optical waves in time, frequency and space domains, we can develop a wide variety of applications.
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浦野,阿久澤,加藤,美濃島
[11aP16] パルスエンベロープをアダプティブ制御した光コム⼲渉計によるfceo⾛査を⽤いた絶対距離測定法の⾼度化2025/12/11Optics & Photonics Japan (OPJ2025),徳島あわぎんホール
小森,Schibli,加藤,浅原,清水,美濃島
[11aG9] ⼆波⻑同期光コムを⽤いた単⼀光⼦レベル極微弱光での⾼精度⾶⾏時間距離測定2025/12/11Optics & Photonics Japan (OPJ2025),徳島あわぎんホール
伊藤,朱,Zhenfeng,加藤,浅原,美濃島
[11aG8] 繰り返し周波数変調を⽤いた広帯域かつ⾼速なデュアルコム光⾳響分光法の開発2025/12/11Optics & Photonics Japan (OPJ2025),徳島あわぎんホール
鎌田,加藤,浅原,美濃島
[10aE4] モード分解された広帯域EOコムのスペクトル⼲渉による精密距離測定法の開発2025/12/10Optics & Photonics Japan (OPJ2025),徳島あわぎんホール
小椋,加藤,美濃島
[9aE3] 光コムを⽤いたコヒーレントリンクによる瞬時3次元測定の⾼精度化と適⽤性拡⼤2025/12/9Optics & Photonics Japan (OPJ2025),徳島あわぎんホール
阿部,加藤,浅原,Wang,Gavara,Chang,美濃島
[8a-N402-5] 精密分光計測に向けた反共振中空コアファイバの曲げによるスペクトル干渉抑制に関する研究2025/9/8第86回応用物理学会秋季学術講演会,名城大学
小椋,加藤,美濃島
[8p-N402-2] 光コムを用いた瞬時3次元測定におけるコヒーレントリンクによる広ダイナミックレンジ化2025/9/8第86回応用物理学会秋季学術講演会,名城大学
関口,日野,浅原,加藤,美濃島
[8p-N402-6] 光コムの位相制御による広帯域背景光除去手法を用いた高感度分光計測に関する研究2025/9/8第86回応用物理学会秋季学術講演会,名城大学
山田,長尾,加藤,浅原,美濃島
[8p-N402-9] 機械共有型デュアルコムファイバレーザーを用いた簡便かつ高品位な中赤外分光手法の研究2025/9/8第86回応用物理学会秋季学術講演会,名城大学
一松,美濃島,久世
[9a-N402-5] 位相変調とヘテロダイン検出を用いたφ-OTDR に基づく極限学習機械2025/9/9第86回応用物理学会秋季学術講演会,名城大学
美濃島(Plenary)
Versatile control of optical waves with optical frequency combs enables broad applications beyond frequency metrology 2025/5/14APLS 2025, Jeju Island
加藤,美濃島
Coherent linked one-shot three-dimensional imaging towards extremely wide dynamic range with optical frequency comb2025/5/7CLEO 2025, Long Beach
小森,Koviri,Schibli,加藤,浅原,清水,美濃島
[ALPS-I6-02] Time-Resolved Photon-Counting Time-of-Flight Ranging Technique by Asynchronous Optical Sampling Using a Dual-Wavelength Comb2025/4/24ALPS/OPIC 2025, 横浜
浦野,阿久澤,加藤,美濃島
[ALPS-I5-04] High-Precision Absolute Distance Measurement Method with fceo tuning in Adaptively Controlled Optical Frequency Comb Interferometry2025/4/24ALPS/OPIC 2025, 横浜
加藤,美濃島
[ALPS-I5-02] Three-dimensional nm-level displacement captured by coherent linked one-shot three-dimensional imaging with optical frequency comb2025/4/24ALPS/OPIC 2025, 横浜
浅原,美濃島
[ALPS-I2-03] OAM-dependent Pump-probe Measurement with Ultrawide Temporal Dynamic Range using Dual Optical Frequency Combs2025/4/23ALPS/OPIC 2025, 横浜
伊藤,朱,加藤,浅原,美濃島
[ALPSp1-43] Study on High-speed Broadband Dual-comb Spectroscopy Schemes Using Dynamic Repetition Frequency Modulation2025/4/23ALPS/OPIC 2025, 横浜
鎌田,R.Li,加藤,浅原,美濃島
[ALPSp1-41] Distance measurement using frequency-calibrated interference spectrum of electro-optic frequency comb2025/4/23ALPS/OPIC 2025, 横浜