Professional Career of Kenichi Iga
1968Dr. Eng. Tokyo Institute of Technology
1973Associate Professor, P&I Lab., Tokyo Institute of Technology
1979-1980Visiting Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories
1984Professor, P&I Lab., Tokyo Institute of Technology
1995Director, P&I Lab., Tokyo Institute of Technology
2000Director of Institute Library and Director of P&I Microsystem
Research Center
2001Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2001Executive Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)(-2007.9.30)
2001Guest Professor of Kogakuin University(-2007.9.30)
2007.10.24 President of Tokyo Institute of Technology
Awards
1992William Streifer Award for Scientific Achievement from IEEE/LEOS
1998John Tyndall Award from IEEE/LEOS and OSA
2000The 3rd Millennium Medal from IEEE
2001Purple Ribbon Medal from Japanese Emperor (Fellow of IEEE, OSA, IEICE)
2003 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award
2003 Fujiwara Award
2007 The Welker Award
2007 C&C Award
Major works
Prof. Iga first proposed (in 1977) and pioneered the surface emitting semiconductor
laser (VCSEL).
He is also an active proponent of gradient-index planar microlens arrays.
He published more than 400 scientific papers.
1)Haruhisa Soda,Kenichi Iga, Tomoyuki Kitahara, and Yasuharu Suematsu,
"GaInAsP/InP surface emitting injection lasers,"Jpn. J. Appl. Phys.,
vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 2329-2330, Dec. 1979.
2)Kenichi Iga, Fumio Koyama, and Susumu Kinoshita, "Surface
emitting semiconductor lasers,"IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. QE-24,
no. 9, pp. 1845-1855, Sep. 1988.
3)Fumio Koyama, Susumu Kinoshita, andKenichi Iga, "Room temperaturecw
operation of GaAs vertical cavity surface emitting laser,"Trans.IEICE,
vol. E71, no. 11, pp. 1089-1090, Dec. 1988.
4)Kenichi Iga, メSurface emitting laser - Its birth and generation
of new optoelectronics fieldモ, IEEE JSTQE, vol. 6, No. 6, pp.1201-1215, Nov/Dec,
2000.
5)Y. Suematsu and K. Iga, "Introduction to Optical Fiber Communication"
from Ohm-sha/John Wiley & Sons (1976)
6)K. Iga, Y. Kokubun, and M. Oikawa, "Fundamentals of Microoptics"
Academic Press (1984)
7)K. Iga, "Fundamentals of Laser Optics" Ohm-sha and Plenum
(1994)
8)K. Iga and F. Koyama, "Surface Emitting Lasers", Kyoritsu-Publishing
Co. Ltd. (1999)
