Since its founding in 1953, Hamamatsu Photonics has consistently pursued the development and manufacture of photoelectric devices and their applied instruments. Meanwhile, we have watched the demand for photonics technology that grows larger in various fields with each passing day. This fact clearly shows us the critical need for Research to create New Knowledge that reveals directions to which we should commit our research efforts. To reach out to these new directions we founded the Central Research Laboratory in February 1990 and poured our efforts into basic and applied research in photonics technology. Here, we perform applied research into various fields such as optical communications, optical measurement, optical information processing, energy, mind/brain science, medical research, biology, space research, astronomy, oceanography and agriculture . Yet we do not neglect basic research, probing into many as yet unexplored areas such as what is the Fundamental nature of light and clarifying the mechanism resulting in Interactions between light and matter. These areas are too big for one company to tackle alone. So we are utilizing joint research with domestic or overseas research organizations, and contract research, and assessing the results to make even further contributions to expanding the frontiers of photonics technology.

Yoshiji Suzuki
Director of Central Research Laboratory
Managing Director of Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.