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RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics Extreme Photonics Research Team

Team Director: Eiji J. Takahashi (D. Eng.)

Research Summary

Eiji J. Takahashi(D. Eng.)

Laser is the ultimate light source created by mankind, and it has become an indispensable tool for our social life. In this laboratory, our main goal is to create an unexplored ultrafast laser by using the extreme nature of laser such as ultrashort pulse, super broadband, high power, and so on. Specifically, we are developing a high-power a few-cycle laser source and using it to develop a novel laser source with full coherence in the soft x-ray region and a pulse width of the attosecond region. We extend the frontier of laser science through the development of novel laser sources.

Main Research Fields

  • Engineering

Related Research Fields

  • Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
  • Optical Engineering and Photonics-related
  • Related to Optical Materials Science and Atomic Physics

Keywords

  • Femtosecond Laser Technology
  • Attosecond Science
  • Strong-field physics
  • Quantum beam

Selected Publications

  • 1.Rajpoot, R., and Takahashi, E.J.:
    "Subcycle pulse control of holographic and nonholographic electron interferences"
    Physical Review Research, 8, 013323 (2026)
  • 2.Nishimiya, K., and Takahashi, E.J.:
    "Advances in dual-chirped optical parametric amplification"
    Advances in Physics: X, 10, (1) (2025)
  • 3.Dong, D., Wang, H., Xue, B., Imasaka, K., Kanda, N., Fu, Y., Nabekawa, Y., and Takahashi, E.J.:
    "Perturbed three-channel waveform synthesizer for efficient isolated attosecond pulse generation and characterization"
    Opt. Lett. 50, 1461 (2025)
  • 4.Rajpoot, R., and Takahashi, E.J.:
    "Systematic analysis of an attosecond pulse generation by a subcycle laser field"
    Physical Review Research, 7, 013047 (2025)
  • 5.Nishimiya, K., Wang, F., Lan, P., and Takahashi, E.J.:
    "Octave-spanning supercontinuum coherent soft x-ray for producing a single-cycle soft x-ray pulse"
    Opt. Lett. 49, 5779 (2024)
  • 6.Lu. X. and Takahashi, E.J.:
    "Dual-chirped optical parametric amplification of high-energy single-cycle laser pulses"
    Nature Photonics 18, 99-106 (2024).
  • 7.Bing, X., Midorikawa, K., and Takahashi, E.J.:
    "Gigawatt-class, tabletop, isolated-attosecond-pulse light source"
    Optica 9, 360-363 (2022).
  • 8.Lu, X., Bing, X., Ishii, N., Itatani, J., Midorikawa, and Takahashi, E.J.:
    "100-mJ class, sub-two-cycle, carrier-envelope phase-stable dual-chirped optical parametric amplification"
    Opt. Lett. 47, 3371-3374 (2022).
  • 9.Bing, X., Tamaru, Y., Fu, Y., Yuan, H., Lan, P., Mucke, O.D., Suda, A., Midorikawa, K., and Takahashi, E.J.:
    "A Custom-Tailored Multi-TW Optical Electric Field for Gigawatt Soft-X-Ray Isolated Attosecond Pulses."
    Ultrafast Science 2021, 1-13 (2021).
  • 10.Bing, X., Tamaru, Y., Fu, Y., Yuan, H., Lan, P., Mucke, O.D., Suda, A., Midorikawa, K., and Takahashi, E.J.:
    "Fully stabilized multi-TW optical waveform synthesizer: Toward gigawatt isolated attosecond pulses"
    Science Advances, 6: eaay2802. (2020).

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Lab Members

Principal investigator

Eiji J. Takahashi
Team Director

Core members

Yasuo Nabekawa
Senior Research Scientist
Natsuki Kanda
Research Scientist
Yu-Chieh Lin
Research Scientist
Rambabu Rajpoot
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ahmed Ramadan Ibrahim
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dai Ikeda
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Kaito Nishimiya
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Kotaro Imasaka
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Hiroki Kawase
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Mitsunori Toyoda
Visiting Scientist
Takeshi Higashiguchi
Visiting Scientist
Akiyoshi Hishikawa
Visiting Scientist
Mizuho Fushitani
Visiting Scientist
Toru Morishita
Visiting Scientist
Akira Suda
Visiting Scientist
Jiro Itatani
Visiting Scientist
Dianhong Dong
International Program Associate
Minshuang Xia
International Program Associate
Yunpeng Liu
International Program Associate

Careers

Position Deadline
Seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (26-619) Open until filled

Contact Information

W507, 5F, Cooperation Center,
2-1 Hirosawa,
Wako, Saitama
351-0198, Japan
Email: ufsxp-info@ml.riken.jp

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