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Hishikawa Lab
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A lab that watches and controls ultrafast molecular motion with extremely intense, ultrashort light.
AboutAbout the lab
Opening up new chemistry with extreme light
The Hishikawa Lab studies how light interacts with matter and pursues new chemistry using extreme light.
In lasers strong enough to rival the electric fields inside atoms and molecules, matter behaves in ways fundamentally different from how it behaves under weak light.
Using the properties of coherent light and advanced spectroscopic methods, the lab explores new phenomena in atoms, molecules, and solids.
The lab aims to pioneer new pathways of chemical reactions and to control them with light.
Key terms
- Coherent
- Having the peaks and troughs of light waves remain aligned with one another. Laser light is the prime example.
- Attosecond
- An extremely short unit of time: one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second.
- Spectroscopy
- A method of separating light by wavelength and measuring it to study the properties and changes of matter.
NewsLab news
A doctoral student won a Best Poster Award at UP2026 (International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena)
A doctoral student won a Best Poster Award at the 41st Symposium on Chemical Reactions
A review article was published in the Journal of the Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research
A doctoral student won an Excellent Poster Award at the 19th Symposium on Molecular Science
A paper was published in Phys. Rev. Research
ResearchResearch themes
Using advanced spectroscopic methods based on the properties of coherent light, the lab aims to discover new phenomena and to pioneer and control chemical reaction processes. Its work includes visualizing molecular motion that occurs on the extremely short attosecond and femtosecond timescales, pioneering and controlling chemical reactions that use intense laser fields with controlled waveforms as the reaction medium, and studying nonlinear optical processes in extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray laser fields.
View More ↗MembersFaculty
The Hishikawa Lab consists of faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorAkiyoshi Hishikawa
- Associate ProfessorMizuho Fushitani
- LecturerAkitaka Matsuda
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