Terahertz Pioneer: Hiromasa Ito
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Siegel, Peter H.
Abstract
Hiromasa Ito grew up wanting to be a scientist like his father before him. The fifth of six children, he was raised in the aftermath of World War II, and like others who have been the subject of these articles, the impact of the war on Ito's life was more than an historic footnote. Ito's father, Yoji Ito was a prominent member of the Japanese Navy (a Commander) and was extremely active in the development of Japan's first radar instrumentation in the early 1940's. Educated at the Technische Hochschule Dresden, Germany, under Heinrich Barkhausen, Yoji worked on high power magnetrons, including the infamous Ku-Go (a microwave variation of Tesla's invisible death ray concept [1]). After the war he was severely restricted in his employment, but he managed to start a company, Koden Electronics, for the peacetime use of his Naval radio technology. Koden Electronics, Tokyo, Japan, still exists today and is known for marine navigation and fish finders.
Additional Information
© 2014 IEEE. Manuscript received November 24, 2014; accepted November 25, 2014. Date of publication December 19, 2014; date of current version January 14, 2015. The author would like to warmly thank Profs. K. Kawase and K. Mizuno for their help in setting up this interview and their kind reception in Sendai. Special thanks also go to Dr. H. Minamide, the current Team Leader of the Tera photonics group at RIKEN, for the use of his office, a wonderful tour of the RIKEN facilities, and a warm reception there.Additional details
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- 53869
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- 10.1109/TTHZ.2014.2376054
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20150120-103012582
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2015-01-20Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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