Masataka Nakazawa was born on 17 September 1952 and is a Japanese researcher in optical communication engineering.
11 Facts About Masataka Nakazawa
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Masataka Nakazawa is a distinguished professor at Tohoku University in Japan.
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Masataka Nakazawa's pioneering work on erbium-doped fiber amplifier has made a significant contribution to the development of global long-distance, high-capacity optical fiber network.
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Masataka Nakazawa was a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.
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Masataka Nakazawa became a distinguished professor in 2008 and the director of RIEC in 2010.
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Masataka Nakazawa served as the director of Japan Council for Research Institutes and Centers of National Universities and of Research Organization of Electrical Communication in 2011.
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Masataka Nakazawa then began research on an erbium-doped fiber laser in 1987 and amplifier in 1989.
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Masataka Nakazawa invented the LD pumped erbium-doped fiber amplifier, which made it possible to construct a compact, reliable, and low-power consumption optical repeater for high-speed, high-capacity, and long-distance optical communication systems.
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Masataka Nakazawa reported backward Raman amplification in 1984, which remains in commercial use.
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Masataka Nakazawa subsequently undertook intensive work on high-speed optical transmission technology using ultrashort Gaussian pulses, optical solitons, optical Fourier transformation, and Nyquist pulses.
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Masataka Nakazawa has published more than 500 academic journal papers and given 400 international conference presentations.