{"title":"Femtosecond technology: a new industrial technology platform","authors":"T. Sakurai","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.2001.969142","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. Increased processing speed in electronics has given birth to new industries. Current computers and high-speed communication systems largely use technologies handling signals of a few 100 MHz up to the GHz range. Development of technologies handling very fast phenomena with precision of a few tens of femtoseconds and with a repetition rate in the THz range by simple and compact means could produce revolutionary change in systems, and surely will lead to a new industrial platform. To promote the research and develop such technologies handling ultra-fast phenomena, \"The Femtosecond Technology Research Project\" was started in 1995, sponsored by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization in Japan) as a ten-year project. This project set two major targets. One was to develop ultra-fast optical devices, which enable 1 Tb/s OTDM (optical time division multiplexed) transmission. The other is to develop compact ultra-short X-ray pulse sources for various diagnosis applications. The generation and control of ultra-short optical pulses are key issues in both targets.","PeriodicalId":18008,"journal":{"name":"LEOS 2001. 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (Cat. No.01CH37242)","volume":"44 1","pages":"3-4 vol.1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"LEOS 2001. 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (Cat. No.01CH37242)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.2001.969142","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Summary form only given. Increased processing speed in electronics has given birth to new industries. Current computers and high-speed communication systems largely use technologies handling signals of a few 100 MHz up to the GHz range. Development of technologies handling very fast phenomena with precision of a few tens of femtoseconds and with a repetition rate in the THz range by simple and compact means could produce revolutionary change in systems, and surely will lead to a new industrial platform. To promote the research and develop such technologies handling ultra-fast phenomena, "The Femtosecond Technology Research Project" was started in 1995, sponsored by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization in Japan) as a ten-year project. This project set two major targets. One was to develop ultra-fast optical devices, which enable 1 Tb/s OTDM (optical time division multiplexed) transmission. The other is to develop compact ultra-short X-ray pulse sources for various diagnosis applications. The generation and control of ultra-short optical pulses are key issues in both targets.