RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics Digital Twin for Light-Matter Interaction RIKEN ECL Research Team
RIKEN ECL Team Leader: Shuntaro Tani (Ph.D.)
Research Summary
With the advancement of laser technology, we can now apply laser fields onto materials, the strength of which is comparable to the interatomic bonds of the materials themselves. These strong and controllable light electric fields are expected to be utilized in precise laser processing and various forms of material state control. However, the physics underlying irreversible processes, such as the fragmentation of a continuous solid into discrete atoms, remains not fully understood. At present, extensive trial and error is necessary to control these processes. In this research project, we aim to develop a method to extract the 'context' of phenomena by extensively observing microscopic processes beginning with photoexcitation, through the complete automation of experiments. Utilizing this technique, we intend to elucidate the governing equations of materials' irreversible transformation and construct a digital twin for optimizing these processes.
Main Research Fields
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
Related Research Fields
- Engineering
- Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Keywords
- Precision laser processing
- Ultrafast pump–probe spectroscopy
- Deep learning
- Digital Twin
- Autonomous experiment
Selected Publications
Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.
- 1.
*Suemoto, T., Ono, S., Asahara, A., Okuno, T., Suzuki, T., Okazaki, K., Tani, S., and Kobayashi, Y.:
"Comprehensive study of the luminescence properties of elemental metals"
Phys. Rev. B. 111, 035150 (2025). - 2.
*Tani, S., and Kobayashi, Y.:
"Pulse-by-pulse evolution of surface morphology driven by femtosecond laser pulses",
J. Appl. Phys. 133, 143104 (2023). - 3.
*Shimahara, K., Tani, S., Sakurai, H., and Kobayashi, Y.:,
"A deep learning-based predictive simulator for the optimization of ultrashort pulse laser drilling"
Commun. Eng. 2, 1 (2023). - 4.
*Tani, S., Sugiyama, K., Sukegawa, T., Sato, T., Ishizuka, Y., Taya, S., Feng, F., Komeda, O., Suto, H., Saitoh, H., and Kobayashi, Y.:
"Real-time high-spectral-resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy with a signal-to-noise ratio of ten thousand"
Opt. Express. 30, 36813 (2022). - 5.
*Tani, S., and Kobayashi, Y.:
"Ultrafast laser ablation simulator using deep neural networks"
Sci. Rep. 12, 5837 (2022).
Publications
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Shuntaro Tani
- RIKEN ECL Team Leader
Contact Information
Cooperation Center W307
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Email: shuntaro.tani@riken.jp