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.

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)
Real-time spectroscopy of transition states in bacteriorhodopsin during retinal isomerization: T. Kobayashi, T. Saito, and H. Ohtani: Nature 414, 531-534 (2001)
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)
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)
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)
Primary conformation change in bacteriorhodopsin on photoexcitation, A. Yabushita and T. Kobayashi, Biophys. J., 96, 1447-1461 (2009)
Ultrafast Spectroscopy of oxy-hemoglobin during photodissociation, A. Yabushita and T. Kobayashi, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114, 11654-11658, (2010)
Kinetic isotope effect on the proton-transfer in indigo carmine, I. Iwakura, A. Yabushita, and T. Kobayashi: Chem. Phys. Lett. 484, 354-357 (2010)
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)
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)