Biography

Toshio Morioka received the BE degree in applied physics from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1982, the MS degree in optical sciences from the University of Arizona, USA in 1984, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in physics and applied physics from Waseda University in 1985 and 1995, respectively. In 1985, he joined Yokosuka Electrical Communication Laboratory of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and was a member of the Photonic Transport Network Laboratory of NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Yokosuka, Japan. He moved to Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2011 and has been a full professor since 2013. He has been engaged in pioneering research on all-optical signal processing for ultrafast and broadband optical communications for more than 30 years, proposing ultrafast OTDM (optical time-division multiplexing) based on all-optical demultiplexing in 1987, and coherent supercontinuum generation over 200 nm for WDM (wavelength-division multiplexing) transmission and optical signal processing in 1994, and initiating SDM (space-division multiplexing) studies in Japan in 2007. He was involved in the first one Tbit/s OTDM/WDM (100 Gbit/s x 10 ch) transmission using a single supercontinuum laser source in 1996 and the first Pbit/s transmission in 2012. From 1996 to 1999, he was with NTT Bureau de Genève, Switzerland. He is a recipient of IEE Electronics Letters Premium Award in 1997 for his first Tbit/s (100 Gbit/s x 10 ch) optical transmission. He is a fellow of OSA (Optical Society of America) and IEICE.