Hidetoshi Katori

Hidetoshi Katori (香取秀俊, Katori Hidetoshi, born September 27, 1964), is a Japanese physicist and professor at the University of Tokyo best known for having invented the magic wavelength technique for ultra precise optical lattice atomic clocks.[1] Since 2011, Katori is also Chief Scientist at the Quantum Metrology Lab, RIKEN.[2]

Hidetoshi Katori
Born
香取 秀俊

(1953-09-10) September 10, 1953
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityJapan
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Known forGrating
Ultra precise atomic clock
Optical lattice
AwardsI. I. Rabi Award (2008)
Asahi Prize (2012)
Nishina Memorial Prize (2013)
Medal with Purple Ribbon (2014)
Japan Academy Prize (2015)
Micius Quantum Prize (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Tokyo

Recently, Katori's group performed a measurement of gravitational redshift with two transportable strontium optical lattice clocks over nearly the entire height of the Tokyo Skytree, setting a new record for the best ground-based test of general relativity. [3][4]

Recognition

Selected publications
  • Ichiro Ushijima, Masao Takamoto, Manoj Das, Takuya Ohkubo, H. Katori, "Cryogenic optical lattice clocks", Nature Photonics 02/2015; 9(3). DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.5
  • A. Yamaguchi, M. Fujieda, M. Kumagai, H. Hachisu, S. Nagano, Y. Li, T. Ido, T. Takano, M. Takamoto, and H. Katori, “Direct Comparison of Distant Optical Lattice Clocks at the10-16 Uncertainty,” Appl. Phys. Exp. 4, 082203 (2011).(第34回応用物理学会論文賞)
  • H. Katori, K. Hashiguchi, E. Yu. Il'inova, V. D. Ovsiannikov, “Magic Wavelength to Make Optical Lattice Clocks Insensitive to Atomic Motion,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153004 (2009). (魔法波長)
  • M. Takamoto, F.-L. Hong, R. Higashi, Y. Fujii, M. Imae and H. Katori, “Improved Frequency Measurement of a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice Clock with a Spin-Polarized Fermionic 87Sr Isotope,” J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 75, 104302 (2006). (日本物理学会 第18回論文賞)
  • Masao Takamoto, Feng-Lei Hong, Ryoichi Higashi & Hidetoshi Katori,"An optical lattice clock", Letters to Editor, Nature 435, 321–324 (19 May 2005) | doi:10.1038/nature03541
  • H. Katori, “Spectroscopy of strontium atoms in the Lamb-Dicke confinement,” in the 6th Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology, edited by Patric Gill (World Scientific, Singapore, 2002), pp. 323–330.(光格子時計の最初の提案)
  • H. Katori, T. Ido, and M. K.-Gonokami, “Optimal design of dipole potentials for efficient loading of Sr atoms,” J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 68, 2479–2482 (1999).(日本物理学会第6回論文賞)
  • H. Katori, T. Ido, Y. Isoya, and M. K.-Gonokami, “Magneto-optical trapping and cooling of strontium atoms down to the photon recoil temperature,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 82, 1116–1119 (1999).

References
  1. "日本学士院賞授賞の決定について | 日本学士院". japan-acad.go.jp. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  2. http://www.amo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/e_ynbw/03_katori.html
  3. Middleton, Christine (2020). "Transportable atomic clocks achieve laboratory precision". Physics Today. 73 (6): 20–21. Bibcode:2020PhT....73f..20M. doi:10.1063/PT.3.4496.
  4. https://www.katori-project.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/freedom/2020_1_press/2020_1_press.html
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