• Photonics NEWS Vol.7 No.4  

Foreword

• Gender and photonics Takashi Kondo

Special Issue on SDGs and Photonics

• Optical technology advances smart agriculture Satoshi Wada, Takayo Ogawa, Norihito Saito, Tomoki Matsuyama
• Light + Rhodopsin = Medicinal products !? Yuki Sudo, Keiichi Kojima, Shiho Kawanishi
• Fast-track approach toward realization of laser fusion energy Ryosuke Kodama
• Achievement of SDGs “responsibility to create and use” using terahertz waves:
  Going for improve the recycling efficiency of plastic containers and packaging Tadao Tanebe, Takahiro Ohashi, Jeongsoo Yu, Gaku Manago, Tetsuo Sasaki, Fumiki Iwasaki, Noriyuki Sato
• Laser-induced chemical reactions: Organic synthesis from CO₂ molecules in water Teppei Nishi, Shunsuke Sato, Ayako Ohshima, Takahiro Nakamura, Shunichi Sato, Takeshi Morikawa

FEATURE

• On-chip photonic matrix processors accelerating inference for neural networks Shota Kita
• Formation of periodic nanostructures using ultrashort pulse laser Reina Miyagawa

Visit to Laboratory

• Kubo Lab., Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Wakana Kubo
• Ota lab, Keio University Yasutomo Ota

• Editorial note Kyoko Kitamura
• Supporting members