Shuntaro Watanabe

Shuntaro Watanabe was born in Shimane, Japan, on August 8, 1946. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1970, 1972, and 1975, respectively, all in applied physics. From 1970 to 1975, he was engaged in research on the excitation mechanism of metal vapor lasers. In 1975, he joined the Electro-Technical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan. From 1975 to 1981, he was engaged in the research and development of excimer lasers. From 1979 to 1980, he visited the National Research Council of Canada. During this time he was engaged in the development of wide aperture discharge rare-gas halide lasers. In 1981, he joined the Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo. Since then, he has developed ultrashort excimer lasers and Ti:sapphire lasers. He has been engaged in research on multiphoton processes such as harmonic generation and ionization by using these lasers. Recently, he is engaged in time-resolved XUV spectroscopy in solids and attosecond pulse generation by using high-order harmonics. He is currently a vice-director of Institute for Solid State Physics and a Professor with the university of Tokyo. Prof. Watanabe is a member of the Physical Society of Japan, Japan Society of Applied Physics, the Laser Society of Japan, and the Optical Society of America.