Kimio Tatsuno, PhD
OITDA / Hitachi, Ltd.,
Optoelectronic Industry & Technology
Development Association
Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo Japan
tatsuno@oitda.or.jp
“Future Challenges in the Photonics Market”
-Target at the Green Digital EconomyKimio Tatsuno, PhD
OITDA / Hitachi, Ltd.
The photonic product market statistics mainly in Japan up to the last year
(2008) and world wide decade forecast in 2004 provided by OITDA are
introduced and analyzed. The history of the bubble economy is telling that
the fundamental technological innovation like broadcasting, railway and
automobile generated bubbles in the past but they deployed and widely
spread into our daily life and giving essential contributions to the base of the
contemporary modern economy. The ICT that has generated the steep
bubble in 2001 can be regarded as the newest fundamental innovation. And
in Japan, the photonic products are parts of the ICT and hence it is
increasing with higher growth rate than the Japanese GDP even after the ICT
bubble and it’s collapse (Fig. 1).
To predict the future photonics market, the global warming issue is a serious
problem for the sustainability. But it can be regarded that it will give more
chances for the growth of photonic products due to the lower energy
consumption. In the future, for example, energy saving OLED applied to the
flat panel display and solid state lighting will be important and photovoltaic
cell as a clean energy generator will keep growing and the growth will be
accelerated when they are connected to the broadband network supported
by the fiber communication value chain (Fig. 2). The future challenges in the
photonics market is targeted at the “Green Digital Economy”.
Brief Biography:
In 1973, he joined Hitachi CRL (Central Research Laboratory) Kokubunji, Tokyo, after his
master course of applied physics from the University of Osaka. He started his research on the
“Holographic memory”, “Optical disk”, “Diode laser interferometer” and “Laser beam
printer”. From 1986 to 1987, he stayed at Philips Research Lab., Eindhoven as an exchange
researcher for the development of optics for “Phase coupled array lasers”. Being back to CRL
of Hitachi Ltd., he continued his research on the wavelength conversion of diode pumped
solid state SHG Lasers and from 1995, he lead a project of diode laser transceiver modules for
optical fiber communications.
In 2003, he joined NISTEP (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) in the Japanese
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and involved in the research and political
proposals from the aspects of industry, university and government collaborations for the
innovation eco-systems. And in 2007, he joined OITDA (Optoelectronic Industry &
Technology Development Association) on leave from Hitachi Ltd., for the planning and
promotion of the national photonics project. He is a part time professor at the Tokyo
Metropolitan University and a member of JSAP, OSJ, IEICE, OSA, IEEE/LEOS and serving
for them as a committee member. He was a vice president of OSJ in 2005-6 and a co-general
chair of the ODF’08, Taipei.