Professor Yasuhiko Arakawa, Director of NanoQuine ,the University of Tokyo and Director of the Photonics Electronics Convergence Center at the Institute of Industrial Science, has been selected to receive the 107th Japan Academy Prize. The prize was awarded to Professor Arakawa for his proposal of the quantum dot concept and its application to semiconductor lasers and his contribution to its practical application, the application of quantum dot lasers to silicon photonics, the realization of high-temperature-operated single photon sources and single artificial atom lasers, and the establishment of the foundations of solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics through the observation of the first vacuum Rabi splitting in semiconductors. The award ceremony will take place on 12 June at the Japan Academy in Ueno.
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