For over 50 years, Teruo Hiruma, the president of the Japanese firm Hamamatsu Photonics, has been striving to make photonics a practical technology that can benefit society and industry. Oliver Graydon spoke to him about the challenges the firm faced in its early days and his opinions on the future.
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Graydon, O. The power of the photon. Nature Photon 1, 80–81 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2006.87
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