Institute for Laser Science
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The Institute for Laser Science (レーザー新世代研究センター) is a department of the University of Electro Communications (電気通信大学), located near Tokyo, Japan.
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[edit] Location
Coordinates: (+35.657952,+139.54128)
Address:1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan.
[edit] History
Established in 1980, the Institute specializes mainly in improving the performance of gas lasers, especially excimer lasers. Between 1990 and 2005, the Institute developed fiber disk lasers and the concept of power scaling. It also developed one of first active mirrors in 1992.
Since 2000, its main research directions have been in the areas of solid state lasers, fiber lasers and ceramics. Since then, the Institute has carried out experiments with quantum reflection of cold excited neon atoms from silicon surfaces. It has also performed the first experiments with ridged mirrors for cold atoms and the interpretation as Zeno effect since 2003. In 2004, the Institute developed the first microchip atomic trap, 2004.
[edit] Current research:
- Laser science solid-state lasers [1], in particular, generation of very short pulses [2], fiber lasers, frequency stabilization [3], power scaling, coherent addition.
- Generation and analysis of multi-charge ions [4],
- Ultra-cold atoms (cooling, trapping, Bose–Einstein condensate, atom optics and holography, quantum reflection and ridged mirrors.
[edit] See also
- University of Electro-Communications (English version)
- Japenese version: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/電気通信大学#.E3.83.AC.E3.83.BC.E3.82.B6.E3.83.BC
- http://www.ils.uec.ac.jp/eng , homepage of the Institute(English version)
- Google map; the institute is the large building in the center, just south of the tennis court:
