資料7-DCommission D (Electronics and Photonics) Activity Report
July 2013-November 2013
November 26, 2013
Tadao Nagatsuma

1. Commission Activities AP-RASC 2013: Two Japanese committee members of Commission D (T. Nagatsuma and M.
Fujita) attended AP-RASC 2013 held on September 1-5 in Taiwan to attend and/or preside thesessions; D1: Space Photonics, DC: Radio-over-fiber Systems and Technologies, DJ1: Microwave
Integrated Circuits, DJ2: Terahertz-wave Technologies.
 ICTRS 2013: T. Nagatsuma attended the ICTRS 2013(organized by URSI Bulgaria) held on
July 11-12 in Noordwijkerhout, Netherland to give a talk on the topic covered by Commission D;
Photonic generation of terahertz waves for communications and sensing.
 Plan of domestic workshop: Preparations are on-going for the first e-conference type workshop
organized by Commission D.

2. 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:
July 18-19, 2013 (Wakkanai); Light and Radio wave workshop (Radio-over-fiber link and systems,etc.)
Technical Committee on Terahertz Applications Systems (IEICE):
Following technical meeting was held on subjects related to THz devices and applications:
August 6, 2013 (Sapporo); Invites talks were on THz photo-mixers, meta-material antennas, andTHz detection and imaging using Graphene devices.
IEICE Society Conference:
Following technical meeting was held in the session of Microwave Photonics (C-14) at the IEICE
society conference:
September 17, 2013 (Fukuoka); 18 papers were presented, which cover signal generation,
electronic and photonic devices for microwave photonics applications, system applications
including radio-over-fiber links, radars, imaging and wireless communications.

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3. International activities related to areas covered by Commission DInternational Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz 2013):
The conference was held on September 1-6 in Mainz on the Rhine, Germany. There were ten
plenary talks, 58 oral sessions and three poster sessions. Main topics of regular sessions wereterahertz sources, detectors, other related materials/components, applications including
spectroscopy, imaging, communications, etc. Next year’s venue of this conference is Tucson, USA.
International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics 2013 (MWP 2013):
The conference was held on October 28-31 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. This conference consistsof a single session with a relatively small number of attendees, about 150, this year. The workshop
on the first day focused on the integration technology of microwave photonics (MWP) systems,
which is a key to expand a marketplace of MWP technologies. The main topics of this conference
were photonic generation and control of microwaves, enabling devices such as lasers, detectors andmodulators, system applications such as radio-over-fiber, fiber-optic/wireless convergence,
beam-forming phased array, measurement, etc. Next year’s venue of this conference is Sapporo,Japan.
Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC 2013):
The conference was held on November 5-8 in Seoul, Korea. This is the largest conference related tomicrowave technologies held in Asia-Pacific regions. Representative technical sessions were on
advanced meta-materials, microwave imaging and remote sensing, RF transceivers, transitions andpackaging, broadband antenna and arrays, millimeter-wave circuits and systems, millimeter-wave
and sub-millimeter-wave integrated circuits, biomedical applications, wireless power transfer andapplications, sub-millimeter and THz technologies, EM analysis, future communications, etc. Next
year’s venue of this conference is Sendai, Japan.
Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP 2013):
The conference was held on November 12-15 in Beijing, China. This is the premier conference in
the Asia-Pacific region on photonics and relevant technologies including photonic materials anddevices,communication

andnetworktechnologies,

sensingtechnologies,

bio-photonictechnologies, illumination technologies, photovoltaic technologies and other photonic technologiesregarding energy issues. On November 12, a workshop on microwave photonics was held with 13
invited papers covering devices, sub-systems and applications.
OthersThe other related conferences are IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC 2013) held on September 8-12,
Bellevue, US, European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2013) held
on September 22-26 in London, UK, and European Microwave Week (EuMW 2013) held on
October 6-11 in Nürnberg, Germany.

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