Progress in Nano-Electro Optics IV

Motoiochi Ohtsu was appointed a Research Associate, an Associate professor, a Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 1986 to 1987, while on leave from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, he joined the Crawford Hill Laboratory, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ. In 2004, he moved to the University of Tokyo as a professor. He has written over 417 papers and received 87 patents. He is the author, co-author, and editor of 55 books, including 22 in English. In 2000, he was appointed as the President of the Tokyo Chapter, LEOS, IEEE. From 2000, He is an executive director of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. His main field of interests is nanophotonics.He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and a Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. He is also a Tandem Member of the Science Council of Japan. Awards: 14 prizes from academic institutions, including the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering of Japan in 2007, the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics in 2009.

Near-Field Imaging of Magnetic Domains.- Improvement of Interface Quality in Cleaved-Edge-Overgrowth GaAs Quantum Wires Based on Micro-optical Characterization.- Recombination Dynamics in InxGa1(TM)xN-Based Nanostructures.- Quantum Theory of Radiation in Optical Near Field Based on Quantization of Evanescent Electromagnetic Waves Using Detector Mode.