Fellows
/Senior Distinguished
Researchers
/Distinguished
Researchers

Awards

• IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Lecturer Award (2006)
• Japan Academy Medal (2009)
• JSPJ Prize (2009)
• Commendation for Science and Technology by Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2010)
• IEEE Fellow (2013)

Academic Activities

• Member of the National University Corporation Evaluation Committee (2010-2014)
• Executive director of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (2019-)
• Chief Executive Editor of Applied Physics Express and Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (2020-)

Visiting Professor

• Guest associate professor in Tokyo Institute of Technology (2001-2009)
• Guest professor in Tokyo Institute of Technology (2010-2017)
• Professor (via cross appointment) in Tokyo Institute of Technology (2017-)

Publications

Papers

1. M. Notomi, "Theory of Light Propagation in Strongly-modulated Photonic Crystals: Refraction-like Behavior in the Vicinity of the Photonic Band Gap", Phys. Rev. B 62, 10696 (2000)
2. M. Notomi, K. Yamada, A. Shinya, J. Takahashi, C. Takahashi, I. Yokohama, "Extremely Large Group Velocity Dispersion of Line-Defect Waveguides in Photonic Crystal Slabs E Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 253902 (2001)
3. M. Notomi, A. Shinya, S. Mitsugi, E. Kuramochi, H-Y. Ryu, "Waveguides, Resonators, and Their Coupled Elements in Photonic Crystal Slabs E Opt. Express 12, pp. 1551-1561 (2004)
4. M. Notomi, H. Suzuki, T. Tamamura, K. Edagawa, "Lasing action due to the two-dimensional quasiperiodicity of photonic quasicrystals with a Penrose lattice", Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 123906 (2004)
5. M. Notomi, A. Shinya, S. Mitsugi, G. Kira, E. Kuramochi, T. Tanabe, "Optical bistable switching of Si high-Q photonic-crystal nanocavities", Opt. Express 13, 2678 (2005)
6. M. Notomi, H. Taniyama, S. Mitsugi, E. Kuramochi, "Optomechanical wavelength and energy conversion in high-Q double-layer cavities of photonic crystal slabs E Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 023903 (2006).
7. T. Tanabe, M. Notomi, E. Kuramochi, A. Shinya, H. Taniyama, "Trapping and Delaying photons for over one nanosecond in an ultrasmall high-Q photonic-crystal nanocavity E Nature Photonics 1, 49 (2007)
8. M. Notomi, E. Kuramochi, T. Tanabe, "Large-scale arrays of ultrahigh-Q coupled nanocavities E Nature Photonics 2, 741-747 (2008).
9. K. Edagawa, S. Kanako, and M. Notomi, "Photonic amorphous diamond structure with a 3D photonic band gap. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 013901 (2008).
10. T. Tanabe, M. Notomi, H. Taniyama, E. Kuramochi, "Dynamic release of tapped light from an ultrahigh-Q nanocavity via adiabatic frequency tuning E Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 043907 (2009).
11. M. Notomi, "Manipulating light with strongly modulated photonic crystals", Reports on Progress in Physics 73, 096501 (2010).
12. K. Nozaki, T. Tanabe, A. Shinya, S. Matsuo, T. Sato, H. Taniyama, and M. Notomi, "Sub-femtojoule all-optical switching using a photonic crystal nanocavity E Nature Photonics 4, 477 (2010).
13. S. Matsuo, A. Shinya, T. Kakitsuka, K. Nozaki, T. Segawa, T. Sato, Y. Kawaguchi and M. Notomi, "High-speed ultracompact buried heterostructure photonic-crystal laser with 13 fJ of energy consumed per bit transmitted", Nature Photonics 4, 648 (2010).
14. K. Nozaki, A. Shinya, S. Matsuo, Y. Suzaki, T. Segawa, T. Sato, Y. Kawaguchi, R. Takahashi and M. Notomi, "Ultralow-power all-optical RAM based on nanocavities E Nature Photonics, 6, 248 (2012).
15. K. Takeda, T. Sato, A. Shinya, K. Nozaki, W. Kobayashi, H. Taniyama, M. Notomi, K. Hasebe, T. Kakitsuka, S. Matsuo, "Few-fJ/bit data transmissions using directly modulated lambda-scale embedded active region photonic-crystal lasers," Nature Photonics 7, 569 (2013).
16. M. D. Birowosuto, A. Yokoo, G. Zhang, K. Tateno, E. Kuramochi, H. Taniyama, M. Takiguchi, and M. Notomi, "Movable High-Q Nanoresonators Realized by Semiconductor Nanowires on a Si Photonic Crystal Platform E Nature Materials 13, pp. 279-285 (2014).
17. E. Kuramochi, K. Nozaki, A. Shinya, K. Takeda, T. Sato, S. Matsuo, H. Taniyama, H. Sumikura and M. Notomi, "Large-scale integration of wavelength-addressable all-optical memories on a photonic crystal chip", Nature Photonics 8 (6), 474-481 (2014).
18. K. Nozaki, S. Matsuo, T. Fujii, K. Takeda, M. Ono, A. Shakoor, E. Kuramochi, and M. Notomi , "Photonic-crystal nano-photodetector with ultrasmall capacitance for on-chip light-to-voltage conversion without an amplifier", Optica, vol. 3, pp. 483-492 (2016).
19. M. Ono, H. Taniyama, H. Xu, M. Tsunekawa, E. Kuramochi, K. Nozaki, and M. Notomi, "Deep-subwavelength plasmonic mode converter with large size reduction for Si-wire waveguide," Optica 3, pp. 999-1005 (2016).
20. K. Takata, and M. Notomi, "Photonic Topological Insulating Phase Induced solely by Gain and Loss," Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 213902 (2018).
21. K. Nozaki, S. Matsuo, T. Fujii, K. Takeda, A. Shinya, E. Kuramochi, and M. Notomi, "Femtofarad optoelectronic integration demonstrating energy-saving signal conversion and nonlinear functions", Nature Photonics 13, 454 (2019).
22. M. Ono, M. Hata, M. Tsunekawa, K. Nozaki, H. Sumikura, H. Chiba, and M. Notomi, "Ultrafast and energy-efficient all-optical switching with graphene-loaded deep-subwavelength plasmonic waveguides", Nature Photonics 14, 37 (2020).
23. T. Yoda and M. Notomi, "Generation and annihilation of topologically protected bound states in the continuum and circularly polarized states by symmetry breaking E Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053902 (2020).
24. K. Takata, K. Nozaki, E. Kuramochi, S. Matsuo, K. Takeda, T. Fujii, S. Kita, A. Shinya, and M. Notomi, "Observing exceptional point degeneracy of radiation with electrically pumped photonic crystal coupled-nanocavity lasers E Optica 8, 184 (2021).

Keywords

• nanophotonics, photonic crystal, photonic integrated circuits, optical computation, topological photonics