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Optical Physics and Engineering Lab
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A lab that uses light to probe electrons inside materials and to control both materials and light.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding materials with light, and controlling materials and light.
The Kishida Lab studies the properties of materials using light.
Using a variety of spectroscopic methods, it examines how materials with “low-dimensional electron systems,” in which electrons are confined in thin chains or thin layers, behave in response to light.
The lab aims to clarify the electronic states and optical properties inside materials and to control the state of light.
Key terms
- Spectroscopy
- A method of probing the inside of a material by shining light on it and measuring how it reflects, absorbs, or emits light at each color (wavelength)
- Strongly correlated electron systems
- Materials whose properties are determined by strong repulsion between electrons. A material that should be a metal can even become an insulator
- Nonlinear optical response
- A phenomenon in which a material responds to intense light in a way that is not proportional to the light's intensity
- Femtosecond
- One quadrillionth of a second. Very short light pulses are used to measure changes that occur on this timescale
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The lab uses a variety of spectroscopic methods to investigate the optical properties of materials with low-dimensional electron systems. It aims to understand the electronic states and optical properties inside materials and to control the state of light.
*Illustrative imageLaser Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems and Organic Crystals
In strongly correlated electron systems, where electrons strongly influence one another, a material expected to be a metal can turn out to be an insulator. The lab investigates electronic states with methods such as reflectance spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy, and studies how to control those states with light and electric fields.
*Illustrative imageOptical Response and Electrical Conduction of Conducting Polymers
The lab shines ultrashort pulse lasers on conducting polymers, in which carbon atoms are linked in chains, and examines their response to light. It studies how to efficiently induce phenomena in which the electronic state changes with light within about a trillionth of a second, and the mechanisms behind them.
*Illustrative imageUltrafast Optical Response of Nanocarbon and Atomic Layer Materials
Nanocarbon materials such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, as well as atomic layer materials, show large nonlinear optical responses. The lab investigates how the state settles down after illumination, measuring it on femtosecond timescales.
*Illustrative imageSpectroscopy of Thermoelectric Materials
The lab studies thermoelectric materials, which convert heat into electricity, as a stage for understanding the behavior of electrons and atomic vibrations. Using optical experiments, it observes the state of the electrons and vibrations inside the materials.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kishida Lab consist of faculty, administrative staff, and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorHideo Kishida
- Associate ProfessorTakeshi Koyama
- Assistant ProfessorYuto Nakamura
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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: “Optoelectronics experiment” Adelphi Lab Center / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Laser Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems and Organic Crystals: “Organic crystal 1” RemiJos / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Optical Response and Electrical Conduction of Conducting Polymers: “Femtosecond Laser and Pulse Compressor - Optics Lab - INRIM” Giorgio Brida from Torino, Italy / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Ultrafast Optical Response of Nanocarbon and Atomic Layer Materials: “Types of Carbon Nanotubes” User Mstroeck on en.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Spectroscopy of Thermoelectric Materials: “Thermoelectric Seebeck power module” Gerardtv / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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