Toshiki Tajima

Toshiki Tajima
田島俊樹
Born (1948-01-18) January 18, 1948 (age 76)
Aichi, Japan
NationalityJapanese
EducationUniversity of Tokyo (B.S., M.S.)
University of California, Irvine (Ph.D.)
Known forPioneering laser wakefield acceleration
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma physics
Institutions
Thesis (1975)

Toshiki Tajima (Japanese: 田島俊樹, Hepburn: Tajima Toshiki, born January 18, 1948)[1] is a Japanese theoretical plasma physicist known for pioneering the laser wakefield acceleration technique with John M. Dawson in 1979.[2] The technique is used to accelerate particles in a plasma and was experimentally realized in 1994,[3] for which Tajima received several awards such as the Nishina Memorial Prize (2006), the Enrico Fermi Prize (2015), the Robert R. Wilson Prize (2019), the Hannes Alfvén Prize (2019) and the Charles Hard Townes Award (2020).

Tajima is currently a professor of the University of California, Irvine,[4] and is the Chief Science Officer of TAE Technologies.[5] His works involve plasma physics,[6] laser physics,[7][8] nuclear fusion, plasma astrophysics,[9][10] accelerator physics[11][12] and medical applications of physics.

  1. ^ "田島俊樹 略歴". www.jaea.go.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  2. ^ Tajima, T.; Dawson, J. M. (1979). "Laser Electron Accelerator". Physical Review Letters. 43 (4): 267–270. Bibcode:1979PhRvL..43..267T. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.43.267. ISSN 0031-9007.
  3. ^ Nakajima, K; Kawakubo, T; Nakanishi, H; Ogata, A; Kato, Y; Kitagawa, Y; Kodama, R; Mima, K; Shiraga, H; Suzuki, K; Zhang, T (1994). "A proof-of-principle experiment of laser wakefield acceleration". Physica Scripta. T52 (T52): 61–64. Bibcode:1994PhST...52...61N. doi:10.1088/0031-8949/1994/t52/009. ISSN 0031-8949. S2CID 250779537.
  4. ^ "Toshiki Tajima | UCI Physics and Astronomy". www.physics.uci.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  5. ^ "TAE Technologies | Management Team". tae.com. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  6. ^ Tajima, Toshiki (2018), "Geometry", Computational Plasma Physics, CRC Press, pp. 268–297, doi:10.1201/9780429501470-10, ISBN 978-0-429-50147-0
  7. ^ Nakajima, K.; Fisher, D.; Kawakubo, T.; Nakanishi, H.; Ogata, A.; Kato, Y.; Kitagawa, Y.; Kodama, R.; Mima, K.; Shiraga, H.; Suzuki, K. (1995). "Observation of Ultrahigh Gradient Electron Acceleration by a Self-Modulated Intense Short Laser Pulse". Physical Review Letters. 74 (22): 4428–4431. Bibcode:1995PhRvL..74.4428N. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.74.4428. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10058504.
  8. ^ Chen, Pisin; Tajima, Toshi (1999). "Testing Unruh Radiation with Ultraintense Lasers". Physical Review Letters. 83 (2): 256–259. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..83..256C. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.83.256. ISSN 0031-9007.
  9. ^ Tajima, Toshiki. (1997). Plasma astrophysics. Addison-Wesley. OCLC 988844392.
  10. ^ Tajima, T.; Sakai, J.; Nakajima, H.; Kosugi, T.; Brunel, F.; Kundu, M. R. (1987). "Current loop coalescence model of solar flares". The Astrophysical Journal. 321: 1031. Bibcode:1987ApJ...321.1031T. doi:10.1086/165694. ISSN 0004-637X.
  11. ^ Henig, A.; Steinke, S.; Schnürer, M.; Sokollik, T.; Hörlein, R.; Kiefer, D.; Jung, D.; Schreiber, J.; Hegelich, B. M.; Yan, X. Q.; Meyer-ter-Vehn, J. (2009). "Radiation-Pressure Acceleration of Ion Beams Driven by Circularly Polarized Laser Pulses". Physical Review Letters. 103 (24): 245003. arXiv:0908.4057. Bibcode:2009PhRvL.103x5003H. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.103.245003. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 20366205. S2CID 11560750.
  12. ^ Mourou, Gerard; Brocklesby, Bill; Tajima, Toshiki; Limpert, Jens (2013). "The future is fibre accelerators". Nature Photonics. 7 (4): 258–261. Bibcode:2013NaPho...7..258M. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.75. ISSN 1749-4885. S2CID 15947736.