資料8-DCommission D (Electronics and Photonics) Activity Report
November 2016-March 2017
March 30, 2017
Katsutoshi Tsukamoto

1. Domestic activities related to areas covered by Commission D
Technical Committee on Microwave Photonics (IEICE): Following technical meeting was held on specific subjects
including regular contributions, November 14, 2016 (Tokyo); Three Special Lectures: Technology overview of highspeed and stable quantum key distribution, Future Optical Access Systems Using Burst-Mode Optical Amplifiers,
Recent development of terahertz communication using resonant tunneling diode oscillators, and 8 contributed paperrelated MMW and THz wave photonics devices, systems, and applications were provided. The committee chair wasProf. Yuichi Kado (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology), who is a member onJapan Commission D.
Technical meeting on Microwave Photonics (IEICE) was held in cooperation with other five technical committees
related with Electronics and photonics on January 18-19, 2017, at Ise, Mie. Prof. Kado, Prof. Toda, Prof. Ito and Prof.
Yoshimoto, Commission D members contributed in its organization and presentations. In the meeting, 4 invited
presentations were provided on specific subjects; Control of circularly polarized light electromagnetic field using chiralphotonic crystals; IoT Data Analysis Technology; Evolution of optical and mobile communication systems and futureintegration; and Elastic Optical Path Control Methods for Highly-Reliable Optical Network. 45 contributed paper on thefollowing topics were presented: advanced photonic networks and devices, photonic generation, antenna or radio overfiber devices and systems for and modulation of microwave, millimeter wave, submillimeter wave, and THz wave.
IEICE General Conference 2016: the session of Microwave Photonics (C-14) was held at the IEICE generalconference, March 22-25, 2017 (Nagoya); 19 papers were presented, which covered millimeter wave, submillimeter
wave, and THz wave signal generation, modulation and antenna devices; electronic and photonic devices for
microwave photonics applications; system applications including radio-over-fiber links, and optical wirelesscommunications.

2. International activities related to areas covered by Commission DSPIE 2017 Photonics West: The conference was held on January 28 - February 2, 2017 at Moscone Center, San
Francisco USA. At the session of Conference 10128 “Broadband Access Communication Technologies XI” co-chairedby Commission D member, Prof. Tsukamoto, following notable papers were presented; Classical key distribution in
optical communication; 3D hybrid integration for active silicon photonics; Integrated microwave photonics: a key
enabling technology for radio-over- fiber; Advanced digital-signal processing for short-haul optical-fiber transmission
beyond 100G; Data center performance improvement using optical wireless links; FireFly: a reconfigurable opticalwireless networking approach in data The role of integrated photonics in datacenter networks; Toward exa-scale opticalcircuit switch interconnect networks for future datacenter/HPC; Advanced Optical fibers and Amplifiers for SDM andData Centers; Silicon Photonics and Alternative Technologies for Data Centers and Short Hauls; Millimeter-Wave
Components and Technologies and 5G Radio-Over-Fiber (RoF) Systems for Access; Millimeter-Wave Technologies
and Advanced MIMO RoF Systems.