Kenju Otsuka

Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Terms: Proceedings of the 2nd Topical Meeting, Alpbach, Austria. Edited by R. G. Harrison, K. Otsuka and H. Winful (World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 1993). (https://www.amazon.com/Nonlinear-Dynamics-Optical-Terms-Proceedings/dp/9810212593)

Early in his career, he served Discussion Session chair for 20th Solvay Conference on Quantum Optics at Brussels in 1991, General co-chairs for Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Systems at Alpbach, Austria, in 1992, Discussion Leader for Gordon Research Conference on Nonlinear Optics and Lasers at New Hampshire in 1993. He published numerous scientific articles and a Monograph: Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Complex Systems (Kluwer Scientific Publishers, 1999; Springer, 2000).

B. S. degree in communication engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, in 1968 and the Ph. D. in quantum electronics from Tohoku University by correspondence in 1976.

He was employed as a researcher by Musashino Electrical Communication Laboratory, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Cooperation (NTT, currently) in Musashino-shi, Tokyo in 1968 and finally managed computational physics with the Cray Supercomputer at Otsuka Research Group aiming for computer-aided design and analysis of novel materials and complex systems at NTT Basic Research Laboratories (http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/e/). In NTT, he performed basic research on optical communications, solid-state lasers, gigabit optical pulse generations, nonlinear photonic devices, nonlinear dynamics and chaos in optics. He was appointed to Professor in Applied Physics of Tokai University, Hiratsuka, in 1994 and Department Chair of Human and Information Science of Tokai University in 2001. He evolved into a teaching and research carrier until the retirement in March 2011 with a research topic on laser-diode-pumped thin-slice as well as microchip solid-state lasers, nonlinear laser science and singular optics, pattern formations and nonlinear dynamics in optical complex systems, as well as self-mixing thin-slice solid-state laser metrology.

Kenju Otsuka (大塚建樹 Otsuka Kenju, born January 2, 1946) is a Japanese engineer and physicist concerned with lasers and quantum electronics.

Kenju Otsuka was born on January 2, 1946, in Anto, old Manchuria of Japan, and raised in Shiogama-shi, Japan. He graduated from Tohoku Gakuin High School in Sendai in 1964. He is married (to wife Ruriko) and has two daughters, two grandsons and two granddaughters.