People

Ken Kuriki
E-mail: kuriki@mit.edu
Website: http://kuriki.mit.edu

Ken Kuriki was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1973. He received his B.S. degree in applied chemistry from Keio University, Yokohama, in 1996. In 1996 he moved as a visiting scientist to Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, in the group of Yoshi Okamoto. He obtained his Ph.D. in material science from Keio University in 2002 under the direction of Yasuhiro Koike, with a thesis on the design of plastic optical fiber lasers and amplifiers with organic dyes and lanthanide chelates.

Publications:

1. K. Kuriki, T. Kobayashi, N. Imai, T. Tamura, S. Nishihara, Y. Nishizawa, A. Tagaya, Y. Koike and Y. Okamoto
“High efficiency organic dye-doped polymer optical fiber lasers”,
Applied Physics Letters, Vo. 77, No. 3, 331-333 (2000).

2. K. Kuriki, T. Kobayashi, N. Imai, T. Tamura, S. Nishihara, A. Tagaya, Y. Koike and Y. Okamoto
“Fabrication and properties of polymer optical fibers containing Nd-chelate”,
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vo. 12, No. 8, 989-991 (2000).

3. K. Kuriki, T. Kobayashi, N. Imai, T. Tamura, Y. Koike and Y. Okamoto
“Organic dye-doped polymer optical fiber lasers”,
Polymers for advanced Technologies, Vol.11, 612-616 (2000).

4. K. Kuriki, S. Nishihara, Y. Nishizawa, A. Tagaya, Y. Koike and Y. Okamoto
“Fabrication and optical properties of neodymium-, praseodymium-, and erbium-chelates-doped plastic optical fibres“
Electronics Letters, Vol. 37, No. 7, 415-417 (2001).

5. K. Kuriki, Y. Koike and Y. Okamoto
“Plastic Optical Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Containing Lanthanide Complexes”,
Chemical Reviews, Vol. 202, No. 102, 2347-2356 (2002).

6. K. Kuriki, S. Nishihara, Y. Nishizawa, A. Tagaya, Y. Koike and Y. Okamoto
“Spectroscopic properties of lanthanide chelates in perfluorinated plastics for optical applications”
Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 19, No. 8, 1844-1848 (2002)

7. K. Kuriki, T. Yoshinaga, S. Nishihara, Y. Nishizawa, A. Tagaya, Y. Okamoto and Y. Koike
“Observation of fluorescence in an optically pumped erbium-containing perfluorinated media at 1.5 ?m”
Optics Letters, accepted

8. K. Kuriki, Y. Nishizawa, T. Yoshinaga, A. Tagaya, Y. Okamoto and Y. Koike
”Laser Performances of Organic Dye-doped Graded-index Plastic Optical Fiber”,
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, accepted

Articles in Magazines

1. Opto and Laser Europe, Issue 56, November 15, 1998.
“Polymer fibres amplify and lase in the visible”

2. Fiber Systems International, Aug / Sep 2000, Vol. 1, No. 4, 15, 2000.
“Doping creates fresh possibilities for POF”

3. Laser Focus World, August 2001, 11, 2001.
“Fluorescence decay observed in plastic optical fiber”