資料7-DCommission D (Electronics and Photonics) Activity Report
December 2013-March 2014
March 26, 2014
Tadao Nagatsuma

1. Commission Activities
URSI GASS 2014: Status of submission of two sessions proposed by Commission D of Japan isas follows;
1) Broadband Ubiquitous Network with Wired and Wireless convergence (Katsumi Iwatsuki,Yuichi Kado, and Katsutoshi Tsukamoto) scheduled on August 19, 2014.
Total submission: 9 (5 papers are invited)
2) Trends in THz Communications (Tadao Nagatsuma, Ci-Ling Pan, and Thomas Kuerner)scheduled on August 22, 2014.
Total submission: 6 (2 paper are invited)
Status of National Report: Commission Chair asked all the members to submit their report, andthe report will be put together by the end of April 2014. Considering delayed submission asexperienced in 2011, it will be finalized by the middle of May at the latest.

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:January 23-24, 2014 (Osaka); In particular, special session on “Future access networks bycombining fiber-optic and wireless technologies” were organized with invited speakers from NTT,NTT Docomo, KDDI, NEC, Waseda University, Tohoku University, etc.
Technical Committee on Terahertz Applications Systems (IEICE):
Following technical meeting was held jointly with Technical Committee on Electron Devices onsubjects related to THz devices and applications:January 16-17, 2014 (Sendai); Invites talks were on 60-GHz radios, >100-GHz amplifiers and theircommunications applications, THz resonant tunneling diode, THz generation and detection using
nonlinear optical devices, and THz Graphene devices.
Technical Committee on Integrated Photonic Devices and Applications (IEICE):
Following technical meeting was held on subjects related to integrated photonic device
technologies and their and applications:January 30-31, 2014 (Kinugawa); Invites talks were Silicon photonics as multi-purpose301

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photonics-electronics convergence platform, Integration of photonic nanostructure devices using
silicon CMOS-compatible process, Optical interconnection technology using Si photonics, III-V
photonics on Si platform, Lightwave modulation technologies for digital and analog applications,Trends in terahertz communications and expectation to integrated photonics, Optical Nyquist pulseand applications, Ultra-high capacity optical transmission by space division/mode-divisionmultiplexing, InP photonic integrated circuits for optical switching and polarization control,
Photonic crystal laser, Photonic integrated circuits using optical multi-mode, Photonic AD
converter, MEMS technologies for optical path control, Bio-implantable devices using CMOS
image sensor technology, and NDT technologies using electromagnetic wave from microwaves toinfrared waves.
IEICE General Conference:
Following technical meeting was held in the session of Microwave Photonics (C-14) at the IEICEgeneral conference:
March 19-20, 2013 (Niigata); 23 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. In addition, focused session
on optical probing of electromagnetic waves was held, covering an antenna-integrated electric filedsensor, electro-optic electric field sensor, photonically-assisted antenna characterization, etc.

3. International activities related to areas covered by Commission D
SPIE 2014 Photonics West:
The conference was held on February 1-6, 2014 at Moscone Center San Francisco. At a session ofConference 9007: Broadband Access Communication Technologies VIII, following notable papers
were presented; Toward 100G/400G flexible systems for advanced access and data Center
Networks, Digital coherent technologies, Next-generation integrated photonics devices,
Next-generation access network and advanced components, Wireless and wired convergence accessnetworks, Few mode fibers , multimode fiber for MIMO communications. In particular, the theme
on “Data center networks” is the most central one at this conference, as was taken at OpticalCommunications Plenary Session, while number of papers on Radio-over-fiber was decreased.
Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2014):
The conference was held on 09-13 March 2014 at Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco.
This is the largest conference related to fiber-optic communications technologies covering devices
and system applications. One of the important technological trends which Commission D is deeply
involved in is a combination of fiber optic communications and wireless communication. Use ofanalog photonic techniques is expected to offer much higher performance and energy-efficientsolutions comparing to digital techniques. Integration of photonic and electronic devices will play a
key role to realize such services at low cost.
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