Background
Sekita, Hitoshi was born on August 12, 1963 in Koga, Ibaraki, Japan. Son of Sadao and Shigeko Sekita.
Sekita, Hitoshi was born on August 12, 1963 in Koga, Ibaraki, Japan. Son of Sadao and Shigeko Sekita.
Bachelor of Science, Keio U., Yokohama, Japan, 1986; Master of Science, Tokyo (Japan) U., 1988; Doctor of Philosophy, Tokyo (Japan) U., 1993.
Assistant manager, Nippon Electric Corporation Corporation, Kawasaki, Kanagawa., Japan, since 1991. Visiting scholar Stanford (California) U., since 1997.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, Optical Society American, Japan Society Applied Physics, Laser Society Japan, American Institute Physics.
Avocations: golf, scuba diving, tennis, skiing. Achievements includeresearch and development of LD pumped solid state lasers, high efficiency excimer lasers, circular free electron laser, compact high voltage power supply for Japanese spece satellite. Research in gas laser pumped by ion beam.
Patents for Excimer lasers.
Married Hideko Kurihara, April 5, 1992.