Major measurements and equipments

Pulse Pattern Generator, 2 unit - Anritsu
Bit Error Rate Tester, 1 unit - Aritsu
Mode-Locked Laser-Diode, 1 unit - Alnair Labs
OTDM Multiplexer, 1 unit - Alnair Labs
Optical Tx./Rx. with Clock Recovery, 2 unit - Anritsu, Dicovery Semiconductor
Optical Modulator for OOK/DPSK, 1 unit - Photoline
40 GHz Synthesizer, 1 unit - Anritsu
Optical Spectrum Analyzer, 2 units - Anritsu, ADVANTEST
Signal Analyzer, 3 unit - ADVANTEST, Anritsu
Electrical Spectrum Analyzer, 1 unit - ADVANTEST
Optical Sampling Oscilloscope, 1 unit - Yokogawa
50 GHz Sampling Oscilloscope, 1 unit - Agilent
Digital Communication Analyzer, 1 unit - Agilent
Tunable Laser-Diode, Plenty - Santec, ANDO
High-Power Laser-Diode, 5 unit - JDSU, LIMO, 3SP Group
Autocorrelator, 1 iunit - Alnair Labs
Programable Variable Optical Attenuator, 1 unit - Anritsu
Tunable Dispersion Compensation Module, 1 unit - TeraXion
C-band Fiber Amplifier, Plenty - Optolink, Luxpert, Alnair Labs, Nuphoton
Ultra Low-Noise Fiber Amplifier, Nuphoton
S-band Fiber Amplifier, 1 unit - FiberLabs
L-band Fiber Amplifier, 1 unit - LiComm
Optical Comb Generator, 1 unit - Optical Comb
Bandwidth-Tunable Filter, 1 unit - Yanista Optics
Narrow-bandpass filter, 2 unit - Alnair
Receiver, 2 units - Discovery Semiconductor, u2t photonics
Balanced Receiver, 2 unit - Discovery Semiconductor
DPSK Demodulator, 3 unit - Kylia
Optical Power Meter, Plenty - Anritsu, Alnair Labs, Thorlab
Electrical Power Meter, 1 unit - Agilent
Fusion Splicer, 1 unit - Fujikura
Fiber Scope, 4 units - The Fibers, Alnair Labs, Seikogiken
LD Controller, Plenty - Asashi Data Systems
DC Power Supply, Plenty - Kikusui etc.
Polarizer Light Source, 1 unit - OZ Optics
Extinction Ratio Meter, 1 unit - OZ Optics

Optical and electrical components

Optical Bandpass Filber, Plenty - Koshin-kogaku, Alnair Labs
Polarization Controller, Plenty - General Photonics
Multi-CHannel Polarization COntroller, 2 units - FIBERPRO
Optical Delay Line, Plenty - General Photonics
Polarization Beam Splitter, Plenty - General Photonics
Faraday Rotator Mirror, Plenty - General Photonics
Tunable Fabry-Perot Filter, 3 pieces - Micron Optics
Arrayed Waveguide Grating (48 channel), 2 pieces -
Variable Optical Attenuator, 2 pieces - Anritsu
In-Line Optical Power Meter, 2 pieces - Eigenlight
Optical Circulator, Isolator, Plenty -

Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA), Plenty - Kamelian, COVEGA, Inphenix, Alphinon
Quantum-dot SOA, 1 piece - QD Laser
Electroabsorption Modulator, 2 pieces - JAE, CIP
LN Optical Intensity Modulator, Plenty - Sumitomo-Osaka Cement
LN Optical Phase Modulator, 1 unit - COVEGA
Optical Matrix Switch, Plenty -

Standard Single-Mode FIber, >100 km - Sumitomo Electric
Highly Nonlinear FIber, Plenty - Furukawa Electric
Dispersion Compensating Fiber, 2 pieces - FiberLogix, Draka
Polarization-Maintaining Fiber, >100 m - Nufern
Double-Clad Fiber, >100 m - Nufern, CoActive
Optical Fiber Patch Corde, Plenty -

Driver Amplifier, Plenty -
Bias Tee, Plenty -
Isolator, Plenty -
DC Block, Plenty -
Phase Shifter, Plenty -
RF Cable, Plenty -

Fund

Research fund

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
"Research on total optical communication technology"
Year: 2002 to 2005

The Japan Prize Foundation
"Optical tunable delay for photonic networks"
December, 2007 1,000,000(JPY)

Yazaki Memorial Foundation for Science and Technology
"Advanced optical signal processing for ultrabroadband photonic networks"
March, 2008 1,000,000(JPY)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Scientific Research B
"Photonic network technology using multiwavelength and broadband wavelength conversion"
April, 2008 1,600,000(JPY)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists B
"Broadband phased-array antenna sysytem for Radio-over-Fiber"
April, 2008 4,003,000(JPY)

CASIO Science Promotion Foundation
"All-optical node technology based on optical waveform conversion for photonic networks"
December, 2008 1,000,000(JPY)

The Kurata Memorial Hitachi Science and Technology Foundation
"Photonic network technology for broadband wavelength conversion"
March, 2009 1,300,000(JPY)

Research Foundation for the Electrotechnology of Chubu
Optical power feeder RoF access system using multi-mode fibers"
March, 2009 1,700,000(JPY)

Ozawa-Yoshikawa Memorial Electronics Research Foundation
"Optical regenerative buffer system"
March, 2009 3,000,000(JPY)

The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF)
"Photonic network technology based on optical signal format conversion"
March, 2009 1,400,000(JPY)

The MURATA Science Foundation
"Advanced multicarrier light source for photonic networks"
June, 2009 1,200,000(JPY)

The NAKAJIMA Foundation
"Photonic network technology for high-efficiency and low power consumption"
January, 2010 4,500,000(JPY)

KDDI Foundation
"Broadband wavelength conversion for advanced modulation formats"
March, 2010 2,400,000(JPY)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Scientific Research B
"Photonic network technology with capbility of optical carrier regeneration"
April, 2011 15,500,000(JPY)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Scientific Research B
"Optical fiber transmission of multicarrier wireless signal without distortion"
April, 2011 1,500,000(JPY)

The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF)
"Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) base station based on optical power feeder system"
March, 2012 1,400,000(JPY)

INAMORI Foundation
"Advanced optical signal processing using quantum-dot semiconductor technology"
April, 2012 1,000,000(JPY)

JGC-S Schlarship Foundation
"Low-power consumption ultrahigh-speed optical transmission technology"
September, 2012 2,000,000(JPY)

Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST)
"Creation of Face-to-Face Communication Industry by Ultra High-Speed Plastic Optical Fiber and Photonics Polymers for High-Resolution and Large-Size Display (Core researcher Prof. Yasuhiro Koike)"
Octorber, 2012 (Co-worker) 10,000,000(JPY)

Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE)
"Research on flexible and effective optical/wireless integrated access networks for advanced wireless communication technologies"
November, 2013 (Co-worker) 27,570,000(JPY)

Travel grant

The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF)
15th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC 2007)
Bangkok, Thailand, August, 2007 170,000(JPY)

Marubun Research Promotion Foundation
The 21st Annual Meeting of The IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (LEOS 2008)
Newport beach, USA, August, 2008 200,000(JPY)

IEEE Communications Society ICC 2009 Student Travel Grant
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009)
Dresden, Germany, February, 2009 100,000(JPY)

The Kurata Memorial Hitachi Science and Technology Foundation
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2009)
Vienna, Austria, July, 2009 200,000(JPY)

The Kurata Memorial Hitachi Science and Technology Foundation
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2010)
Torino, Italy, July, 2010 200,000(JPY)

IEEE Photonics Society OECC 2011 Student Travel Grant
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC 2011)
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, June, 2011 NT $5,000

The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF)
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013)
Budapest, Hungary, June, 2013 290,000(JPY)

Award

Ericsson Young Scientist Award
"Research on opto-electronics, optical communication sysytem, photonic networks, and optical/wireless sysytem"
Ericsson, Japan, November, 2008

FUNAI Information Technology Award For Young Researchers
"Research on optical signal processing for photonic networks"
FUNAI Foundation for Information Technology (FFIT), April, 2009

OECC 2010 Young Scientist Award (as a co-worker)
"All-optical picosecond duration-tunable NRZ-to-RZ
data format conversion with pedestal suppression"
15th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC2010), July, 2010

TELECOM System Technology Award
"Optical carrier regeneration for carrier wavelength reusein a multicarrier distributed WDM network", and 3 related papers
The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF) , March, 2011

OWPT 2021 Paper Award（T. Kobatake, N. Shindo, and M. Matsuura）
"Simultaneous fiber transmission of control and mobile communication signals in power-over-fiber drones for airborne base stations"
Optical Wireless and Fiber Power Transmission Conference（OWPT）, April,s 2021

OECC 2021 Best Student Paper Award (M. Sagara)
"Frequency comb assisted photonic digital-to-analog conversion based on frequency chirp in a QD-SOA"
26th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC 2021), July, 2021

OWPT 2022 Paper Award（N. Shindo, T. Kobatake, and M. Matsuura）
「Flight demonstration of power-over-fiber drone for aerial base stations」
Optical Wireless and Fiber Power Transmission Conference（OWPT）, April, 2022

OWPT 2022 Student Paper Award（K. Murakami, H. Mamiya, and M. Matsuura）
「Simultaneous data and power transmission using a double-clad fiber with low-loss transmission band at 1550 nm」
Optical Wireless and Fiber Power Transmission Conference（OWPT）, April, 2022

We deelpy appreciate the great research funds and supports from the above research foundations and related organizations.