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

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, and Kenichi 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, "Surface emitting laser - Its birth and generation of new optoelectronics field" 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)
9)K. Iga and Y. Kokubun, "Encyclopedic Handbook of Integrated Optics", Tailor and Francic ( 2006)