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Could you specifically explain what the terahertztechnology is?Hosako: Our target is to raise utilization efficiency offrequency bands by developing novel devices withvarious frequency bands including photonic band. Aspart of activities to achieve this goal, we have engagedin research and development of electromagnetic wavefrequency range called terahertz frequency band, thefrequency band that is positioned between the radiowave and the light wave.According to the Radio Law, the radio wave is definedas an electromagnetic wave with its frequency smallerthan 3 THz. The upper limit of frequency band currentlyused in the radio wave is millimeter waveband, and it isthat frequency bands in millimeter waveband such as 60GHz and 125 GHz began to be used just recently.However, frequency bands higher than 100 GHz, suchas 300 GHz - 10 THz, for example, are almost not yetused. Our research on the terahertz technology aims topromote research and development in such a field thathas not been so much utilized until now.

What can we do by using the terahertz tech-nology?Hosako: With the radio telescope ALMA (AtacamaLarge Millimeter / submillimeter Array) which is nowunder construction in Chile of South America, forexample, the researchers of the ALMA will be able toobserve radio wave bands from tens of GHz to about1000 GHz by dividing them into several bands. Also inthe astronomy satellite “Akari,” an imager of about 3THz is mounted to observe distant galaxies or star

formations. We are currently promoting the fundamentalresearch and development exploring for potential, morepractical applications in the fields of agriculture andfoods, securities, biotechnology, medicines and medicalcare, various industrial products, and even IT, as well asthe use in astronomy like those I mentioned.

What are the specific targets of your researchand development?Hosako: Although our terahertz project started justrecently in 2006, few researches previously carried outin and outside Japan were practically applied. Againstthis background, our target is set to creating deviceswhich can be actually and commonly used in manyapplications. Specifically, we hope to develop an imagecamera of terahertz frequency band with real timedisplay capability, a compact system with spectro-chemical analysis capability, devices for using theterahertz frequency band, and other practical devices.We assume to apply these technologies in the fields ofsafety and security which have been focused these days.For example, it may be interesting if we can develop adevice to detect toxic substances contained in foods thatcannot be found by X-ray or the infrared technology.

Can we check foreign objects mixed even inpackaged foods?Hosako: Electromagnetic wave of terahertz frequencyband almost does not penetrate through water, but willpenetrate through ice in a certain degree. While weexpect frozen foods will be potentially appropriate targetof inspection, those foods in packages using evaporatedaluminum cannot be checked because terahertzelectromagnetic wave does not penetrate through metal.If people recognize that inspection using terahertztechnology ensures safety, however, these packages maybe replaced by those except adding evaporatedaluminum.

This technology is likely be used in the case suchas the frozen jaozi problem last year, isn’t it?Hosako: Since the pesticide which was used in the caseshows characteristic spectrum in the terahertz frequencyband, it could be found when the sensitivity of detectorwill sufficiently be enhanced. If it is available, thistechnology will pave the way of new nondestructive and

What is the terahertz technology which is nowexpanding its application range?

Terahertz Technology Attracting World Attention

Expecting Its broad applicationrange from cosmic space, foods,medical care to security

Leadoff Interview

Iwao HosakoGroup LeaderAdvanced Device Research Group,New Generation Network Research Center

After completing a doctoral course ofpostgraduate school, worked for NKK (NihonKokan) Corporation, served as COE SpecialResearcher of Communications ResearchLaboratory, and joined Communications

Research Laboratory (current NICT) in 1996.Has been engaged in researches includingdetector, semiconductor laser, andmeasurement system working in theterahertz frequency band.

“Terahertz frequency band” has not beenso much utilized so far, but it can beapplied as technology for safety andsecurity in a broad range of applicationfields. Development of compact and high-performance devices for practical use isnow proceeding.

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noncontact inspection methods.

How are these technologies used inthe security field?Hosako: It is said that we can inspect gunsor explosives in pockets by using thesetechnologies as counter terrorismmeasures. We heard the news that acompany developed devices by usingfrequency band of several hundreds GHz,a lower terahertz band, and these devicesare already practically applied.

Hosako: One of the demonstrationsconcerning how terahertz technologies areused is analysis of classic paintings. Eventhough they look like the same color as whiteor blue from human eyes, their spectrums aredifferent through terahertz frequency bands.Using these frequency bands, we can mapwhere specific substances are located. Thereason why we apply this technology to theanalysis of paintings at first is because paintmaterials consist of relatively puresubstances. Applying this technology in otherfields will require a higher sensitivity todetect particular substances in mixedcircumstances, however, which has greatpotentiality to be attained in years to come.

What field is promisingin the future?Hosako: The primarily important areasinclude security, bio-medical, and foods.The ICT related market will emerge in thenext stage.

What is the goal of your futureresearch on the horizon?Hosako: Previously, terahertz waves wereassumed not to be used for wirelesstransmission because of their shorterpropagation distance affected by largeatmosphere absorption. In addition,generation and detection of terahertzwaves needed too much cost, which couldbe carried out only in large facilities.These are the reason why the research inthis field has not been advanced until now.According to this understanding, weanticipate that it is significantly importantto develop compact systems based onsemiconductor lasers and semiconductortechnologies, which are very much likelyto be achieved in small size and withlower cost.

Thank you very much.

Analyzing classic paintingsthrough terahertz eyes

Illustration Explaining Terahertz Frequency Bands

Real-time, Field-portable THz-imaging System

●In December 2008, with the cooperation of Galleriadegli Uffizi which is located in Florence, Italy, wehad the opportunity to analyze the famous painting ofthe early Renaissance (tempera) using terahertzwaves. Among the figures above, reflection imagesproduced by the terahertz imaging are shown ingray scale, with which more strongly reflected partsappear in white. Using the characteristics ofterahertz waves to penetrate through opticallyopaque materials, we successfully observed thestructure under the painting without destructing andtouching it for the first time in the world as shown inpicture (a). We found that on the rough surface of thebase wood, plaster was pasted to cover theirregularities made by cutting out the wood, thencloth was attached on the plaster surface, anotherpainting base plaster was added on the cloth, and thepainting layer was placed on the upper plaster. Wesupposed that this structure followed the methodsof color carvings or relieves in medieval times,because in that time of this painting, the category of“painting” was not yet established. Furthermore,with the observation (b) of surface conditions,reflection from red of the book and ruffles of thecostume were stronger. Comparing with thepigment database developed by NICT, we foundthat the red was vermillion and ruffles were created byoverpainting white lead. Furthermore, gold of thesleeve part which was invisible by human eyes wasclearly recognized. (Fukunaga, AppliedElectromagnetic Research Center)

“The Badia Polyptych” painted by Giotto in around 1300(Uffizi Gallery of Florence)

(a) Observation samplein the depth direction

(b) Observation sampleon the surface condition

THz image Visible image

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Aya IharaResearcherBiological ICT GroupKobe Advanced ICTResearch Center

After completing a doctoral course ofpostgraduate school, served as aresearch fellow in National Institute forPhysiological Sciences. Joined NICT in2005. Has been engaged in researchesof brain processing of language

information by noninvasive brain measurement. Doctor of Health Science.

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Evaluating “Comprehension” from Brain Activities

Towards Brain Informationand CommunicationsConveying Human Minds

To realize a ubiquitous society where “anyone” canaccess networks at “anytime” “anywhere,” thedevelopment of communication technologies whichallow us to send and receive a large volume ofinformation accurately at high speed has been greatlypromoted. In the future, in addition to such initiative, thetechnological development which supports more affluentand smoother commuications will become moreimportant from the perspective of human side. Aiming atthe realization of information and communicationstechnologies conveying human “minds,” the BrainInformation Project of Biological ICT Group in KobeAdvanced ICT Research Center has been engaged in theresearch to objectively evaluate states or movements of“minds” (“Comprehension”, “Serendipity”, “Emotion”,etc.) during communications by measuring brainactivities and to use this brain information (informationcollected from brain activities) for information andcommunications technologies (Fig. 1). One of theseresearches is the brain study concerning language“Comprehension”. Languages play a key role in humancommunications. If we can identify the mechanism ofhow brain comprehends language, we may open the wayto new information and communications technologieswhich consider the understandability of information andeven the speaker's comprehension level.

When human beings comprehend language, multipleprocessing procedures are simultaneously carried outincluding analysis of audio-visual inputs such as letter-strings and sounds, retrieval and identification ofsemantic / phonological information of words,integration of the information, and syntactic analysis.Our group uses Magnetoencephalography (MEG) toinvestigate “Where” and “When” these processingprocedures are performed.

A lot of neurons, which convey information byexchanging current signals, are working in the humanbrain. Magnetoencephalogram, a weak magnetic fieldgenerated by currents passing through neurons in brain,is detected with Superconducting Quantum InterferenceDevice (SQUID), which is a highly sensitive magneticsensor over the whole head. Supposed currents ofnumerous neurons locally activated in a part of brain area single currecnt source (dipole), we can identify spatio-temporal characteristic of brain activities with hightemporal resolution in millisecond order.

However, in the case that multiple areas are activatedsimultaneously in brain like language processing, it wasvery difficult for conventional analysis methods todivide these activities. Then, we proposed originalanalysis methods to resolve this issue, which enabled usto analyze specific complex brain activities associated

with language comprehension, includingvisual form processing of words, semantic /phonological processing, and even higherlevel of context processing, with hightemporal and spatioal resolution (Fig. 2).

Japanese language has a number of wordswhich use the same orthography andpronunciation but each of their meanings aredifferent. For example a Japanese word “くも(/kumo/)” has two meanings: “cloud” and“spider”. Thus, language often containslexical ambiguities, but we can comprehendthe appropriate meaning through the context

Information and communications, and thebrain research

Brain activity measurement extractinglanguage processing

Exploring mechanism of how thebrain comprehends language

Extracting States and Movements of “Mind” from theBrain as Brain Information and

Utilizing for Information and Communication Technologies

Serendipity

Image

Intention

Emotion

Sympathyz

Comprehension

Fig.1: ICT Conveying Human Minds


in our daily conversation. The ability to rapidly andflexibly process information containing ambiguity isexactly the characteristics of human beings, which isessential to successful smooth communications.

We are engaged in the research on brain processing ofhow multiple candidate meanings of lexically ambiguousword are represented in the brain and how the ambiguityis resolved to confirm the meaning of words. By thesedays, we have succeeded in clarifying the brain activitiesinvolved in the lexical ambiguity resolution using MEG(Ihara et al., NeuroImage 2007). According to itsfindings, we found that when a word with lexicalambiguity was provided and the meaning of it was notconfirmed immediately, the left inferior frontal gyrusplayed an important role. It was discovered thatimmediately after the presentation of a ambiguous word,multiple candidate meanings were automaticallyactivated regardless of the context (bottom-up semanticprocessing); about 0.2 seconds after the wordpresentation, semantic retrieval using the context (top-down semantic processing) started in left inferior frontalgyrus; activation of contextual inappropriate meaningswas inhibited; and 0.5 seconds after a contextualappropriate meaning was selected the word presentation(Fig. 3). We supposed that parallel activation of thevocabulary in the brain is a key mechanism of flexiblehuman semantic recognition.

On the basis of the research so far, from brainactivities, we have been able to extract the change fromthe state when the brain feels a word meaning “notunderstandable” or “ambiguous” to the state of“understandable”. Using the findings of the basicresearch concerning “comprehension” as coretechnology, it may be available for us to objectivelyevaluate “vocabulary level” or “comprehension level”from brain activities. Furthermore, we may be able toobjectively explore what information providing methods

will raise the “comprehension level” of informationreceivers and then to propose information provisionsystem including the evaluation of “comprehensionlevel” (Fig. 4). We hope that if we can extract states andmovements of ”minds” as brain information, suchtechnology may prevent unnecessary misunderstandingsand discrepancies in communications, which also couldlead to communication interfaces to facilitate mutualunderstanding.

ICT using brain information

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Park?

Sponsorship?

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mance? Park

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Resolving ambiguityAmbiguous wordusing context

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Brain Activities Related to Language “Comprehension”

“I walked around the “Koen”. A Japanese word “Koen” has multiple meaningsas shown below in the left illustration of brain.

Braininformation

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Proposal of informationdelivery method to raise"comprehension level"

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Fig.2: Analysis of Language Processing by Brain Activity Measurement Method

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Brain Magnetic FieldWaveforms andDistributions

Whole Head 148-Channel MEGSystem

3.0 Tesla MRI System

Fig.4: Toward Establishment of Objective Evaluation of“Comprehension Level”

Fig.3: An Example of Research concerning Language Comprehension

NICT Optical SpaceCommunications Ground CenterGround Station for Optical Communications

with SatellitesNICT Headquarters

IntroductionofFacilities

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In the north premises of NICT Headquarters inKoganei-city in Tokyo, a building called “NICT OpticalSpace Communications Ground Center” is located witha telescope equipped. Fig.1 shows an external view ofthe telescope dome of this center. Inside the dome, wecan find a large telescope with 1.5m aperture diameter(hereinafter referred to as “1.5m telescope”). While thistelescope can be used for various purposes such asobservation and ranging, we use this facility especiallyfor research and development of laser communicationtechnologies. Satellites are regarded as an essentialfactor in these days, and applications of satellites suchas high resolution imaging and human activities inspace has increased data volumes to be transmitted..Since these data volumes are estimated to be increasingin the future, we aim to apply space laser

communications as large volume data transmissiontechnology which support future space utilization.

The 1.5m telescope was the second largest in Japanwhen it was constructed. Although several telescopeswith larger aperture diameter were built to date, thefeature of this 1.5m telescope is a capability to tracksatellites moving at high speed as an antenna for lasercommunications with satellites.

Fig.2 shows a picture of the telescope taken insidethe dome. On each side of both shoulders of the 1.5 mtelescope, a 20cm diameter telescope is mounted. Weuse these two types of telescopes for different purposes.For example, the 20cm telescopes are used for emissionof laser beams from the ground, and the 1.5m telescopereceives beams from satellites. The center has twofloors, and the tube framework is placed on the secondfloor.

Inside of the telescope pillar is vacant with somemirrors equipped. It is designed to lead beams to thefirst floor along the arrow as shown in Fig.2 using

Large telescope with 1.5 m aperture diameter

MirrorOptical bench Optical bench

2nd floor

1st floor

Fig.2: 1.5m Telescope

Fig.1: Telescope Dome of NICT Optical Ground Center


reflections of these mirrors. The mirrors are movable tochange exit positions of beams collected from thetelescope by operating these mirrors. For example, wecan also install a camera or a measurement device on thetable indicted with a circle in Fig.2. Furthermore, fourlarge optical laboratory tables are equipped on the firstfloor, and we can switch the table to be used byoperating the reflection direction of mirrors in the pillar.These flexibilities allow us to select and use differentoptical systems built on each table, with which we caneffectively prepare for experiments and implementthem.

In 1994, NICT (Communications ResearchLaboratory at that time) succeeded in communicationsexperiments connecting the satellite ETS-VI (“Kiku-6”),which was located about 40 thousands km from theearth, and the ground with laser beams using the 1.5mtelescope for the first time in the world. Later in 2006,our institute successfully achieved lasercommunications with the satellite OICETS (“Kirari”).While laser communications with “Kiku-6” was carriedout in a condition that the satellite looked almoststationary from the ground, in the case of “Kirari” whichrevolved on the lower orbit at about 600 km altitude, thesatellite moved at high-speed against the ground. Thelaser communications driving the telescope preciselyaccording to the movement of this satellite were also thefirst successful example in the world. The picture oflaser beams taken at the ground station in theexperiment with “Kirari” is shown in Fig.3. The circlelight in the center is the laser beam from “Kirari,” andthe straight line extended from the center to the bottomis the laser beam emitted from the ground to thesatellite.

The laser communications with satellites need todrive the telescope with high accuracy. This accuracy ismaintained by Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR). In ourOptical Ground Center, a dedicated optical system isbuilt on one of the optical tables in the first floor asshown in Fig.2 to carry out SLR regularly. In addition,prior to the experiment with “Kirari” in 2006, wemade an experiment to illuminate the small satelliteµ-LabSAT in 2003. Since the camera mounted in thesatellite detected the laser beams from the ground, wecould confirm that directions of the telescopes werecontrolled with appropriately precise levels ofdefinition.

It is known that satellite-ground laser communi-cations are strongly influenced by weather conditionssuch as interruption of optical link by clouds. Raisingthe rate of optical link formation with satellites requires

prevention of impacts from weather. Among severalmethods for such prevention, we are focusing on sitediversity which arranges ground stations in differentsites. By equipping the 1.5m telescope as the primarystation and transportable telescopes which can beinstalled in different sites as the secondary stations, andfacilitating collaboration of these telescopes via theground networks, we are preparing for opticalcommunications between the secondary station and thesatellite, to ensure continued communications evenwhen the weather above the primary station is cloudy. Inaddition, recently this 1.5m telescope is drawingattention as an optical ground station for quantumcryptography key distribution experiments, and webegan the preparation for equipping such capabilities.

This article introduces NICT Optical SpaceCommunications Ground Center as a ground station foroptical communications with satellites, and the 1.5 mtelescope serving as an antenna for these opticalcommunications. Using these facilities, NICT hasdemonstrated successful laser communications betweensatellites and the ground for the first time in the world,and these activities have drawn great attentions.Currently we continue the tests for technologiessupporting future space activities by installing trialdevices and other equipment into the optical systems.From now on, we are going to adopt methods for theprevention of weather impacts to improve the rate ofoptical link formation. We also plan to simultaneouslyproceed with the preparation as a ground station forquantum cryptography key distribution experiments.

Examples of optical space communicationsexperiments

Future prospects

Yoshihisa TakayamaSenior ResearcherSpace Communications GroupNew Generation WirelessCommunications ResearchCenter

Joined Communications Research Laboratory(current NICT) in 1999. Has been engaged inresearches including optical phase conjugation,photonic crystals, electromagnetic analysis,and space laser communications. Doctor ofEngineering.

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Fig.3: Laser Beams from the Satellite Captured at the Ground Station


NICT and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) hold a meeting for presidents of both organizations to exchange their opinions to realize their research collaboration in the information and communications field on January 21, 2009. This meeting aimed at the collaboration of both organizations to promote their research and

development, and therefore, increase due synergy effects, from a broader perspective towards realizing “New-Generation Network Vision” proposed by NICT, under the leadership of presidents in each institute. At the beginning of this meeting, Dr. Miyahara, President of NICT expressed the commitments to

realize the New-Generation Network Vision in collaboration with related organizations in order to establish the industry and society which have a lot of diversion and sustainable development. Dr. Yoshikawa, President of AIST expressed the intension to realize the industry and society with sustainable development by the research and development of ultralow energy network devices. After these opening addresses, vice-presidents of each institute introduced the latest research and development topics, and participants exchanged their opinions from various points of view such as the way to promote nationwide research and development, strategies for standardization, and other up-to-date themes. At the end of the meeting, the participants from both organizations confirmed that NICT and AIST would continue to promote the research and development by utilizing their respective strengths to heighten the synergy effects generated from the collaboration between them. It is expected that, through this meeting opportunity, the collaborative research between both

organizations will be further progressed in future.

Participants in Presidents’ Bilateral Meeting

Presidents’ Bilateral Meeting towards Research Collaboration with National Institute of Advanced

Industrial Science and Technology


PRIZEWINNERS'PROFILES

PRIZE WINNER ● Junya NakataResearcher, Hokuriku Research Center Collaborative Research ManagementGroup, Collaborative Research Department

GROUP OF PARTICIPATOR:Youichi Shinoda, Yashuo Tan, Kenichi Chinen, Razvan BEURAN

◎DATE：11.12.2008◎NAME OF THE WINNING PRIZE：UBICOMM 2008 Best Paper Award◎CONTENTS OF THE WINNING PRIZE：Distributed Emulator for a Pedestrian TrackingSystem Using Active Tags◎NAME OF GROUP：The International Academy, Research andIndustry Association (IARIA)

◎Comment by the Winner:I'm very grateful that my research was greatly

evaluated to receive this award concerning thedevelopment of ubiquitous network testbed which I hadbeen engaged in at Hokuriku Research Center. I'm verythankful for the instructionsgiven by Project LeaderShinoda and Project Sub-Leader Tan, as well as thecollaboration to accomplishthis research, which wasgiven by related people inPanasonic Corporation,Internet Research Center ofJapan Advanced Institute ofScience and Technology,and The StarBED Team.

PRIZE WINNER ●Hidekatsu JinExpert Researcher, Space Environment Group, Applied ElectromagneticResearch Center

◎DATE：8.12.2008◎NAME OF THE WINNING PRIZE：Young Scientist Award◎CONTENTS OF THE WINNING PRIZE：Different Behaviors of TEC and F2 Peak ElectronDensity at Midlatitudes During GeomagneticStorms◎NAME OF GROUP：International Union of Radio Science

◎Comment by the Winner:In this research paper, I showed that various factors are

complicatedly related to ionospheric disruptions which affect radiowave propagation, by usingnumeric simulations. I'm verygrateful that the importance of thisresearch was greatly evaluated.Encouraged by this awardwinning, I will commit myself toenhance the research toionospheric disruptions forecasting.I'm deeply thankful for appropriateadvices and instructions given byTakashi Maruyama, SeniorResearcher in Applied Electro-magnetic Research Center, who isco-author of this paper, in variousaspects in the research.

PRIZE WINNER ●Teng RuiExpert Researcher, Universal City Group, Knowledge Creating CommunicationResearch Center

◎DATE：12.2.2008◎NAME OF THE WINNING PRIZE：Excel lent Poster Award of the 6th QoSWorkshop◎CONTENTS OF THE WINNING PRIZE：An Eff ic ient MAC Protocol for RelaibleNetworked Control in Home Netowrk Systems◎NAME OF GROUP：Technical Committee on Communication Quality,IEICE

◎Comment by the Winner:This research aims at offering

proposals of highly reliableMedia Access Control (MAC)methods to accurately controlelectric apparatuses throughtheir electric power sensing onthe home network and designsof new networking methods torealize the conversion frominformation networks to controlnetworks. I'm very proud ofreceiving this award and wouldlike to express to the relatedpeople my deepest gratitude fortheir support.

PRIZE WINNER ●Hiroyuki TsujiSenior Researcher, Space Communication Group, New Generation WirelessCommunications Research Center

◎DATE：6.19.2008◎NAME OF THE WINNING PRIZE：Achievement Prize of Technical Committee onAntennas and Propagation of IEICE◎CONTENTS OF THE WINNING PRIZE：Activ ity Achievement Pr ize of TechnicalCommittee on Antennas and Propagation◎NAME OF GROUP：Technical Committee on Antennas and Propagation of IEICE

◎DATE：9.17.2008◎NAME OF THE WINNING PRIZE：Activity Achievement Prize of IEICE◎CONTENTS OF THE WINNING PRIZE：Activity Achievement Prize of Communication Society◎NAME OF GROUP：IEICE Communications Society◎Comment by the Winner:I had an honor to be awarded for my

activities for two years as sub-chief editor ofSociety in the Communication Society and asa member of research paper committee inthe Technical Committee on Antennas andPropagation. Recently while more than halfof papers coming to English researchjournals of Communication Society in TheInstitute of Electronics, Information andCommunication Engineers (IEICE) are fromoverseas countries, these research journalsplay an important role in the researchactivities of IEICE. I'm very grateful to havevaluable experiences through these activitiesand also receive the honorable awards.

In the next issue, we will feature Information Security Research Center which leads safety and security ofcommunications.

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