Takayoshi Kobayashi
"Development of DUV, UV, visible, IR ultrashort pulse lasers and their applications to carbon nanotubes and topological insulators"

Position

Chair professor of National Chiao-Tung University,
Professor of The University of Electro-Communications,
Guest Professor of Osaka University,
Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo

Education:

1967
University of Tokyo, Bachelor of Science in Physics
1968
University of Tokyo, Master of Science in Physics
1972
University of Tokyo, PhD degree

Professional Experience

1972―1980
Senior research assistant in Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
1977―1979
Invited temporary member of the technical staff in Bell Laboratory in USA
1980―1994
Associate professor of the Graduate School of Science of the University of Tokyo
1994―2002
Full professor of the Graduate School of Science of the University of Tokyo
2002-present
Chair Professor of the National Chiao-Tung University
2002-present
Specially appointed professor of the University of Electro-Communications

Awards

1995
Scientific Achievement Award from the Chemical Society of Japan
2000
Fellow of the Optical Society of America
2003
Scientific Achievement Award from the Spectroscopy Society of Japan
2005
Scientific Achievement Award from the International Vibrational Spectroscopy
2005
Scientific Achievement Award from the Matsuo Foundation
2005
Chair Professor, National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan.
2006
Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo
2006
Outstanding Science Scholar Award from Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship in Taiwan.
2010
Outstanding Contribution to Science and Technology Award from the Shimadzu Science and Technology Foundation
2010
Japan Minister of Education, Culture, Science Award for Outstanding Contribution to Science and Technology
2010
Outstanding Visiting Professor of Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Physics in Beijing
2011
Outstanding Visiting Professor of Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai Institute of Optic’s and Fine Mechanics in Shanghai
2011
Humboldt Award, Outstanding Research in the Development of Ultrashort Pulse Laser and Ultrafast Processes in Molecules
2012
The Chemical Society of Japan Award
2013
Fellow of the Chemical Society of Japan

Publications

Ten papers out of about 580 original papers are listed below.

  1. Sub-5-fs visible pulse generation by pulse-front-matched noncollinear optical parametric amplifier, A. Shirakawa, I. Sakane, M. Takasaka, and T. Kobayashi: Appl. Phys. Lett. 74, 2268-2270 (1999)
  2. Real-time spectroscopy of transition states in bacteriorhodopsin during retinal isomerization: T. Kobayashi, T. Saito, and H. Ohtani: Nature 414, 531-534 (2001)
  3. Controlling the carrier-envelope phase of ultrashort light pulses with optical parametric amplifiers A. Baltuska, T. Fuji, and T. Kobayashi: Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 0133901 (2002)
  4. Visible pulse compression to 4 fs by optical parametric amplification and programmable dispersion control, Baltuska, T. Fuji, and T. Kobayashi, Opt. Lett. 27, 306-308 (2002)
  5. Cascaded four-wave mixing and multicolored arrays generation in a sapphire plate by using two crossing beams of femtosecond laser, J. Liu and T. Kobayashi, Opt. Exp. 16, 22119-22125 (2008)
  6. Primary conformation change in bacteriorhodopsin on photoexcitation, A. Yabushita and T. Kobayashi, Biophys. J., 96, 1447-1461 (2009)
  7. Ultrafast Spectroscopy of oxy-hemoglobin during photodissociation, A. Yabushita and T. Kobayashi, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114, 11654-11658, (2010)
  8. Kinetic isotope effect on the proton-transfer in indigo carmine, I. Iwakura, A. Yabushita, and T. Kobayashi: Chem. Phys. Lett. 484, 354-357 (2010)
  9. Temporal contrast enhancement of femtosecond pulses by a self-diffraction process in a Kerr bulk medium, J. Liu, K. Okamura, Y. Kida, T. Teramoto, and T. Kobayashi: Opt. Exp. 18, 22245 (2010)
  10. Octave-spanning carrier-envelope phase stabilized visible pulse with sub-3-fs puse duration, K. Okamura and T. Kobayashi: Opt. Lett. 36, 226-228 (2011)