The 2014 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Electronics, Information and Communication
• Achievement:
  Pioneering research on semiconductor lasers for high-capacity long-distance optical fiber communication
• Lecture:
  光ファイバ通信と半導体レーザ、そして社会

Major Awards

1983	Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal
1983	Prime Minister's Award for Communication Achievement
1986	David Sarnoff Award
1989	Toray Science and Technology Prize
1994	The John Tyndall Award
1994	C&C Prize
1996	Medal with Purple Ribbon
1997	Eduard Rhein Basic Research Prize
2003	IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
2003	Person of Cultural Merits

Academic Degrees

1955	Tokyo Institute of Technology, B.S. in Engineering
1960	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Engineering

Professional Career

1961	Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1973	Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1989	President, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1995	Director General, National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research
1997	President, Kochi University of Technology
2001	Director General, National Institute of Informatics
2005	Advisor, National Institute of Informatics (-2009)
2011	Honorary Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Major Publications

• “Room Temperature CW Operation of (100) GaInAsP/InP DH Laser Emitting at 1.51μm,” S. Arai, M. Asada, Y. Suematsu, and Y. Itaya, Japan. J. Appl. Phys., 18, 12, pp.2333-2334 (Dec. 1979).
• “Single Wavelength Operation of 1.53μm GaInAsP/InP BH Integrated Twin Guide Lasers with Distributed Bragg Reflector under Direct Modulation up to 1GHz,” K. Utaka, K. Kobayashi, F. Koyama, Y. Abe, and Y. Suematsu, Electron. Lett., 17, 11, pp.368-369 (May 1981).
• “Dynamic-Single-Mode Semiconductor Lasers with Distributed Reflector,” Y. Suematsu, S. Arai, and K. Kishino, IEEE J. Lightwave Technol., LT-1, 1, pp.161-176 (Mar. 1983).
• “1.5μm Phase-Shifted DFB Lasers for Single-Mode Operation,” K. Sekartedjo, N. Eda, K. Furuya, Y. Suematsu, F. Koyama, and T. Tanbun-Ek, Electron. Lett., 20, 2, pp.80-81 (Jan. 1984).
• “Analysis of Dynamic Spectral Linewidth of Dynamic-Single-Mode (DSM) Lasers and Related Transmission Bandwidth of Single-Mode Fibers,” F. Koyama and Y. Suematsu, IEEE J. Quantum Electron., QE-21, 4, pp.292-297 (Apr. 1985).