Takanori Okoshi

Background

Okoshi, Takanori was born on September 16, 1932 in Tokyo. Son of Makoto and Hisako (Koibuchi) Okoshi.

Education

Immediately after receiving his Doctor of Philosophy, Okoshi was appointed lecturer at the University of Tokyo where he remained until retirement.

Career

In his school days, he made radio sets and motors, and subsequently received a bachelor"s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1955, specializing in electronics and communications. His bachelor"s thesis work, "The Generation of Millimeter Waves by Harmonic Generators" was published in the journal of the Institute of Electrical Communications Engineers of Japan. His then received both masters" and doctoral degrees from the University of Tokyo, working on electron guns under the supervision of Professor Okamura, later President of the Tokyo Denki University.

As professor, he was a renowned expert in optoelectronics and holography, planar circuits, and optical fiber communication.

From April 1963 through the fall of 1964, he visited Bell Labs at the invitation of Michiyuki "Mickey" Uenohara, where he worked on electron guns but also became acquainted with lasers. After his return to Tokyo, he started work on a novel idea for the soft landing collector tube, which he first described publicly in the 1970 International Electron Devices Meeting in Washington District of Columbia. From about 1967, he began theoretical work on three-dimensional imaging, and by the early 1970s about half the activities in his laboratories concerned optoelectronics.

A notable invention from those years was wide view projection holography. He also wrote several textbooks in the field

From about 1980 onwards, his interest shifted to planar circuits, optical fiber communications, and photon counting.

After his retirement from the University of Tokyo in 1993, Okoshi was named director of the Japanese government"s National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (NAIR). Okoshi has served as president of the Institute of Television Engineers and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers), and vice president of the Engineering Academy of Japan and the International Union of Radio Science (Union Radio - Scientifique Internationale (International Union of Radio Science)). He has been awarded the 1993 Japan Academy Prize for "Research on Coherent Optical Fiber Communications", 1994 C&C Prize, Fujiwara Prize, and 1988 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Morris North. Liebmann Memorial Award "for leadership in and pioneering contributions to coherent optical fiber communications.".

Achievements

• Takanori Okoshi has been listed as a noteworthy Electronics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Three-Dimensional Imaging Techniques

    (A seminal early text on lenticular and holographic imagin...)

  • Three-Dimensional Imaging Techniques

    (A seminal early text on lenticular and holographic imagin...)

  • Planar Circuit for Microwaves and Lightwaves (Springer Series in Electronics and Photonics)

    (Until recently, three principal classes had been known in...)

  • Planar Circuits for Microwaves and Lightwaves (Springer Series in Electronics and Photonics)

    (Until recently, three principal classes had been known in...)

  • Coherent Optical Fiber Communications (Advances in Opto-Electronics)

    (Book by Takanori Okoshi, K. Kikuchi)

  • Three-Dimensional Imaging Techniques by Takanori Okoshi (2011-05-03)
  • (Three-dimensional Imaging Techniques) Author: Takanori Okoshi published on (March, 2011)
  • Three-Dimensional Imaging Techniques by Okoshi, Takanori (1976) Paperback

Membership

Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (M.N. Liebmann Memorial award 1989). Member Institute television Engineers (president 1989-1990, Excellent Book award 1975, 85). Institute Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (president 1993-1994, Excellent Book award 1978, 83, 84, 90, Achievement award 1979, 83, 86, Distinguished Service award 1993), Engineering Academy Japan (vice president from 1994), Royal Academy Belgium.

Interests

• Avocation: music composition.

Connections

Married Yasuko Hirone, March 29, 1963. Children: Asako, Kent, Naoko.

Father:

Makoto Okoshi

Mother:

Hisako (Koibuchi) Okoshi

Spouse:

Yasuko Hirone

child:

Asako Okoshi

child:

Naoko Okoshi

child:

Kent Okoshi