Akihiro Maruta

Akihiro Maruta received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University, Suita, Japan, in 1988, 1990, and 1993, respectively, all in communications engineering. In 1993, he joined the Department of Communications Engineering, Osaka University. Since 2005, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technology. His current research interests include optical fiber communication systems and all-optical signal processing. Professor Maruta is a Member of the IEEE/LEOS, OSA, and IEICE.

Biography Updated on 4 June 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Numerical study on multiple-pulse operation of passively modelocked stretched pulse fiber ring laser
    Optics Communications, vol. 270, no. 2, pp. 407–413, 2007
  2. Polarization-Insensitive Monolithic 40-Gbps SOA–MZI Wavelength Converter With Narrow Active Waveguides
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 32–39, 2007
  3. All-optical modulation format conversion from NRZ-OOK to RZ-QPSK using parallel SOA-MZI OOK/BPSK converters
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 12, p. 7774, 2007
  4. All-optical modulation format conversion from on-off-keying to multiple-level phase-shift-keying based on nonlinearity in optical fiber
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 13, p. 8444, 2007
  5. All-optical tunable delay line based on soliton self-frequency shift and filtering broadened spectrum due to self-phase modulation
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 17, p. 7895, 2006
  6. Experimental demonstration of all-optical tunable delay line based on distortion-less slow and fast light using soliton collision in optical fiber
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 24, p. 11736, 2006
  7. Photonic analogue-to-digital conversion using electroabsorption modulator and supercontinuum light
    Electronics Letters, vol. 42, no. 17, p. 1000, 2006
  8. NRZ-OOK-to-RZ-BPSK Modulation-Format Conversion Using SOA-MZI Wavelength Converter
    Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 3751–3758, 2006
  9. Two-Bit All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion by Filtering Broadened and Split Spectrum Induced by Soliton Effect or Self-Phase Modulation in Fiber
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 307–314, 2006
  10. Bi-Soliton under the Influence of Third Order Dispersion in Dispersion-Managed Optical Transmission System
    IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E88-B, no. 5, pp. 1955–1962, 2005
  11. Joint Special Section on Recent Progress in Optoelectronics and Communications
    IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E88-B, no. 5, pp. 1852–1852, 2005
  12. A Novel Quantization Scheme by Slicing Supercontinuum Spectrum for All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion
    IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 465–467, 2005
  13. 2-Bit All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion by Slicing Supercontinuum Spectrum and Switching with Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror and Its Application to Quaternary ASK-to-OOK Modulation Format Converter
    IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E88-B, no. 5, pp. 1963–1969, 2005
  14. All-optical analog-to-digital conversion based on fiber nonlinearity
    Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part I: Communications), vol. 88, no. 3, pp. 53–62, 2004
  15. All-Optical Quantization Scheme Based on Fiber Nonlinearity
    IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 587–589, 2004
  16. Bi-soliton pulse in a dispersion-managed optical transmission system and its application
    Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part I: Communications), vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 44–52, 2002
  17. Bisoliton propagating in dispersion-managed system and its application to high-speed and long-haul optical transmission
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 640–650, 2002
  18. Symmetric bi-soliton solution in dispersion-managed system
    Electronics Letters, vol. 37, no. 22, p. 1357, 2001
  19. Interactions between dispersion-managed solitons in optical-time-division-multiplexed systems
    Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part II: Electronics), vol. 84, no. 6, pp. 24–29, 2001
  20. Collision-induced timing-jitter analysis in a wavelength-division-multiplexed optical soliton-transmission system with dispersion management
    Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 18, no. 4, p. 419, 2001
  21. On the dispersion managed soliton
    Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 515, 2000
  22. Interactions between dispersion managed solitons in optical-time-division-multiplexed system
    IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 299–301, 2000
  23. Effectiveness of densely dispersion managed solitons in ultra-high speed transmission
    Electronics Letters, vol. 36, no. 23, p. 1947, 2000
  24. Optimal dispersion management for a wavelength division multiplexed optical soliton transmission system
    Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 1547–1559, 1999
  25. Optimal dispersion management for wavelength-division-multiplexed RZ optical pulse transmission
    Electronics Letters, vol. 34, no. 9, p. 902, 1998
  26. Reduction of Gordon-Haus jitter in a dispersion compensated optical transmission system: analysis
    Optics Communications, vol. 149, no. 4-6, pp. 261–266, 1998
  27. Dynamically gain flattened EDFA with bent dispersion shifted fibre
    Electronics Letters, vol. 33, no. 25, p. 2126, 1997
  28. Interaction between guiding centre solitons in a periodically dispersion compensated optical transmission line
    Electronics Letters, vol. 33, no. 12, p. 1063, 1997
  29. Recent Progress in Dispersion-Managed Soliton Transmission Technologies
    Optical Fiber Technology, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 197–213, 1997
  30. Finite-element analysis of three-dimensional waveguide transfer problem-application to coaxial line system
    Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part II: Electronics), vol. 77, no. 5, pp. 39–46, 1994
  31. Transparent boundary for finite-element beam propagation method
    Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part II: Electronics), vol. 77, no. 5, pp. 32–38, 1994
  32. Finite element analysis of open-type waveguides with homogeneous cladding by the use of multipole expansion
    Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part II: Electronics), vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 36–42, 1993
  33. Boundary element analysis of electromagnetic fields in cylindrical structures
    Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part II: Electronics), vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 43–49, 1993
  34. Finite-element analysis of open-type axially symmetric waveguides
    Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part II: Electronics), vol. 75, no. 12, pp. 34–39, 1992
  35. Analysis of open-type waveguides by the vector finite-element method
    IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, vol. 1, no. 12, pp. 376–378, 1991
  36. Finite–element analysis of waveguide transfer problem—field connection by using the Galerkin method
    Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part II: Electronics), vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 48–54, 1990