Optical Engineering Award Recipients
| Year | Award Recipients | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| 9th (2025) |
Nobuyuki Hashimoto | Development of liquid crystal spatial light modulators for a wide variety of instruments and their industrial applications |
| Kenichi Ueda | Pioneering works on high power and high precision laser technology and optical engineering | |
| 8th (2024) |
Yoshiaki Yasuno | Establishing technological basis and clinical‐and‐biological applications of optical coherence tomography |
| Ichirou Yamaguchi | Laser‐speckle patens and digital holography | |
| 7th (2023) |
Takehiko Nakai | Introduction of new technologies such as multi-layered diffractive optical elements into camera systems and their practical application |
| Satoshi Kawata | Contribution to the science of nano-optics and nano-spectroscopy | |
| 6th (2022) |
Takeshi Shimano | Pioneering R&D on applied optical systems and its deployment for consumer electronics |
| Kazuo Kuroda | For pioneering research on photorefractive photonics and outstanding contributions to the development of optics and photonics | |
| 5th (2021) |
Kaoru Minoshima | Creation of spatio-temporal control and manipulation technology of light by optical frequency comb and contribution to optical metrology |
| Mitsuo Takeda | Contributions to the development of optical engineering through pioneering work in the fields of optical metrology, information optics, and imaging | |
| 4th (2020) |
Masato Shibuya | Contribution to the development of optical design technology represented by the phase shift method and the promotion of lens optics |
| Kenichi Iga | Pioneering and continuous contribution to surface emitting laser and microoptics | |
| 3rd (2019) |
Koichi Maruyama | Establishment of design method for diffractive refractive hybrid lens and contribution to spread of diffractive lens technology |
| Tadao Tsuruta | Distinguished contributions to optical engineering through R. and D. activities and long years educational writings | |
| 2nd (2018) |
Takashi Yatsui | Development of a non-contact optical surface flattening technology in a sub-nanometer scale |
| Yoshiki Ichioka | Pioneering work on image information systems developed from optics, electronics, and information science and technology based interdisciplines | |
| 1st (2017) |
Keisuke Goda | Development and utility of ultrafast imaging |
| Toyohiko Yatagai | Significant contributions to optical measurement and optical information processing |