1998-2001

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1998	Announcement of our vision "Toward an Information Sharing Industry for the 21st Century" [ Establishment of NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group (consisting of six Laboratories) ] Successful growth of a single-crystal silicon having a new crystal structure Start of Joint Project of IWATE-UNU-NTT Environmental Network Development of a new material for air poles for cryogenically-operated solid electrolytic type fuel cells Development of a news-flash-type Japanese-to-English machine translation system, ALTFLASH Development of a time-series active search method for instantaneous search of sounds and images Development of a low-power 2.5 -Gbit/s optical transmitter module of optical connector size Development of a method of controlling semiconductor laser polarization characteristics using electron spin operation Successful laser oscillation using electrochemical light emission Development of a 16 x 16 thermal-optical matrix switch Successful manufacture of silicon polymers whose helical direction reverses depending on temperature Development of a word/chinese character affinity database Development of a contact-type, highly secure, multi-purpose IC card Start of joint research on leading-edge technology with MIT in the U.S. Successful 3-Tbit/s optical transmission tests Clarification of the mechanism of "viewing moving objects" Successful development of one-chip fingerprint authentication unit
1999	[ Reorganization of NTT into NTT Group under a holding company] Construction of Digital City Kyoto Development of a computer (DUG-1) capable of using discretion in responding to spoken words Start of a verification test of a next-generation network Development of a vision of unifying single-core optical connectors by using the low-cost MU type connector Acquisition by Atsugi R&D Center of ISO14001 certification Development of a voltage fluctuation monitor for stable power supply to networks Development of lightning protection adapters for use in areas hit by heavy thunderstorms Development of optical switches that operate on a new principle of thermal capillary effects Demonstration of feasibility of ultra-low noise optical amplification that overcomes the quantum limit Development of an inverter circuit using a single-electron transistor Development of a power supply for an optical network unit (p-ONU) hub Successful integration of a high performance semiconductor optical filter and an optical detector on a single chip Development of a pollen forecasting system
2000	Development of a large-capacity, full-mesh network system using an orbiting arrayed waveguide grating filter Development of a new material that allows highly efficient electro-magnetic field emission Successful transmission of ultra-high-definition video on a broadband network Development of a technology for instantaneous search of sounds and videos on the Internet Development of Super high definition image display technology for thin displays Development of LSI PCA-1, which can autonomously change its own circuit functions Successful 1.28-Tbit/s, time-divison multiplex transmission experiment at a single wavelength using femtosecond optical pulses Development of an spoken dialog system, "Hiyumu" Development of a large-capacity 1,000-channel AWG Development of the world's smallest, high-precision positioning device(integrated micro-encoder) Start of a verification trial of a pollen forecasting service in the metropolitan area Development of a high-sensitivity, night-vision monitoring system with image recognition capability
2001	Development of "SIONet": New Peer-to-Peer Technology not requiring a Server Development of Photonic MPLS Router Supporting Future Super-Large-Capacity Internet Backbone Development of Broadband Optical Amplifier (Tellurite Raman Optical Fiber Amplifier), Indispensable for Large-Capacity DWDM Transmission Systems Implementation of Surface Emitting Laser for Optical Communications Operating at one-hundredth of the Current Required by Conventional Devices Launch of World's First Evaluation Trial of 2000-line-class Digital Cinema Field Test for 'TSUNAGARI'Communication (service) --Fostering a sense of propinquity to people living apart Development of Automatic Internet Diagnosis System for Diagnosing Route Failures between Multiple ISPs: "ENCORE" Clarification of Visual Sense System Mechanism for Increasing Image Contrast Development of a Method for Measuring Listening Comprehension Ability Which Is Adapted to Daily Life, - a Task Which Has Been Difficult up to Now Success on Direct Observations of the electron distribution in quantum dots Development of STP Process Technology for Fabrication of New Functional Devices

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