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Photonics Center (Photonics Area)
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A center that provides a place for education, research, and information exchange in photonics.
AboutAbout the lab
A center joined by labs across graduate schools and departments.
The Photonics Center is a center attached to the Graduate School of Engineering that provides a place for education, research, and information exchange in photonics, a field spanning a wide range of disciplines.
Osaka University is known as a mecca of photonics research, and labs that cross graduate school and department boundaries, along with many companies, participate in the center.
The center has advanced cutting-edge scientific research on nanophotonics and plasmonics and its application and industrialization, together with human resource development and international exchange.
It is currently promoting MEXT's Photonics Life Science R&D Hub (COI-NEXT), which began in fiscal 2022 (Reiwa 4).
Key terms
- Photonics
- Science and technology for understanding and using the interaction between light and matter.
- COI-NEXT
- The name of the program for the photonics life science R&D hub that this center has been promoting since fiscal 2022 (Reiwa 4).
ResearchResearch themes
Labs that cross graduate school and department boundaries, along with many companies, participate in the center. It has advanced cutting-edge scientific research on nanophotonics and plasmonics and its application and industrialization, together with human resource development and international exchange.
*Illustrative imageR&D Hub for Photonics Life Science
The center has been promoting MEXT's Photonics Life Science R&D Hub (full-scale type) since fiscal 2022 (Reiwa 4).
*Illustrative imageProjects for Starting a Company and Commercialization
The center has called for proposals from researchers who aim to start a company or commercialize photonics-related technologies, and has supported the selected projects. The requirements are that the proposal aims at starting a company or commercialization within two years and that it is related to photonics.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Photonics Center consist of the Steering Committee and member labs belonging to graduate schools, departments, institutes, and other units within the university.As of 2025
- ProfessorKatsumasa Fujita
- ProfessorKazuya Kikuchi
- ProfessorTakeshi Omasa
- ProfessorYasushi Inoe
- ProfessorHirotsugu Ogi
- ProfessorJunichi Takahara
- ProfessorTetsusei Kurashiki
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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: “POLARIS 4th Amplifier” Dr. Marco Hornung / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- R&D Hub for Photonics Life Science: “Dark Cool Optical Microscope” Rouibi Dhia Eddine Nadjm / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Projects for Starting a Company and Commercialization: “Lean-StartUp-Cycle-EN” Antonsk / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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