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Information Photonics Lab
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The lab combines light and information science to create new ways of measuring and computing.
AboutAbout the lab
Combining light and computing
The Information Photonics Lab studies the interdisciplinary field between optics and information science.
The lab works on pioneering new optical systems and computing systems.
The lab rests on two pillars: computational imaging, which aims to bring innovation to optics through information science, and AI photonics, which aims to bring innovation to information science through optics.
The lab aims to design minimal, refined systems rooted in the essence of light and information.
Key terms
- Computational imaging
- An approach to imaging that combines an optical system with computation, processing the measured signals to form an image
- Scattering medium
- Something that scatters light and disturbs its path, such as frosted glass or biological tissue
- Reservoir computing
- A machine learning method that uses the complex dynamics of physical phenomena directly for computation
NewsLab news
A doctoral student received the FY2025 CCS Encouragement Award at the IEICE NOLTA Society Conference
A paper on speeding up a light-based decision-making system was published in Optics Express
Graduate school admissions information session on May 23
A paper on decision making using quantum optics was published in npj Quantum Information
A paper on imaging through scattering materials was published in Advanced Imaging
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies light and information from two perspectives: Computing for Photonics and Photonics for Computing. In the area where optics and information science intersect, it works on pioneering new optical systems and computing systems.
*Illustrative imageComputational Imaging
By integrating optics and information science, and harmonizing signal processing, including machine learning, with the measurement and control of light, the lab pioneers imaging technologies that go beyond simply capturing images. Its work includes new microscopes, imaging through scattering media, and three-dimensional displays.
*Illustrative imagePhotonic AI
The lab designs systems that solve computations physically, making use of the high speed and parallelism of light. It creates new principles and application systems, such as optical chaos, quantum walks, decision-making systems using single photons, and reservoir computing.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Information Photonics Lab consist of faculty, project researchers, project specialists, graduate students, and short-term visiting students.As of 2026
- ProfessorRyoichi HorisakiPublications ↗
- Project Associate ProfessorAndré Röhm
- Assistant Professor巳鼻 孝朋
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Detail of a Micropositioner on a Optical Table” Tobin from Rochester, NY, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Computational Imaging: “Speckle from HeNe laser” Yilmazhas / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Photonic AI: “RGB Laser” PANG KA KIT / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Physical Information Measurement and Inverse Problems Lab): “Magnetic field around wire” Maciej J. Mrowinski / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Brain Information Measurement and Control Lab (Amano-Nakayama Lab)): “Double cone coil” Baburov / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Real-World Information Environment Lab): “October 19, 2012- Acoustic Levitation for Medicine ( )” ENERGY.GOV / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Computing Systems Lab (Nakamura-Takase)): “Pleiades two row” NASA Ames Research Center / Public domain (cropped)
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