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March.19.2025

Utsunomiya University President's Awards Ceremony

The President's Award Ceremony was held on March 18, and Mr. Nomura and Ms. Sun of the Otani Lab were honored. Congratulations!


March.18.2025

Visit by Assistant Professor Kondo, CIO, University of Guadalajara

Assistant Professor Kondo visited Centro de Investigación en Óptica A.C. (CIO) and Universidad de Guadalajara in Mexico. He introduced the research activities of the Optics Education and Research Center and the Optical Engineering Program at Utsunomiya University, and gave a seminar on his research activities.


March.17.2025

Teaching at Sakushin Gakuin High School

Professor Nathan Hagan and Assistant Professor Jessica Onaka gave a class at Sakushin Gakuin High School.


March.10.2025

The 19th Kanto Student Research Paper Conference Award!

Mr. Ino at Fujimura Laboratory received the Best Presentation Award (Oral) at the 19th Kanto Student Research Paper Conference organized by Information Photonics Research Group, Optical Society of Japan on March 10.  


March.7.2025

Won the Grand Prize at the Tochigin Business Plan Contest!

On March 4, the final judging of the 9th Tochigi Bank Business Plan Contest was held, and the business plan “Commercialization of a holographic optical engine that revolutionizes manufacturing of laser microfabrication,” by the venture company HOLODESIGN Inc. was selected for the Grand Prize.


March.7.2025

Received the Governor of Tochigi Prefecture Award at the Mebuki Business Awards!

On February 26, the 8th Mebuki Business Awards ceremony was held by the Mebuki Financial Group. Among 206 applications, the plan “Contribution to the semiconductor and storage battery fields by laser microfabrication with holographic optical engine” by HOLODESIGN Corporation, a venture company from Utsunomiya University, was selected for the Governor of Tochigi Prefecture Award.


March.1.2025

Welcoming our New Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Rajeev Ranjan and Assistant Professor Xiangyu QUAN have been appointed as of March 1.


February.17.2025

Master's Thesis Presentation

Yuto Nomura and Ryosei Hayama received the Yatagai Award and Ryota Masuda received the Raito Award at the Master's Thesis Presentation held on February 4-6, 2012. Congratulations to them!


February.17.2025

The 2nd Research Report Meeting of Optics Education and Research Center will held

We will held the research results in four projects: "Smart Manufacturing Optics", "Smart ICT Social Optics", "Real-World Information Optics", and "Natural Environment Optics". The purpose of these projects is to form a base for the creation of research areas that can lead Japan and the world in the field of optics.
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February.14.2025

We are now hiring!

We are currently looking for Associate professors.Pleasce click here for more details.


February.14.2025

CORE seminor

183th Core seminor will held on February 27.Check here!


February.10.2025

CORE seminor

182th Core seminor will held on February 25.Check here!


January.10.2025

Best Poster Award

Mr. Kakurai from Sugihara-Kondo Laboratory received the Best Poster Award at the POF2024 International Conference held in November.
Congratulations!


January.10.18.2025

Donation for 3C

We are pleased to announce that we have received a donation from Tama T.L.O., Inc. We sincerely appreciate their cooperation.


November.18.2024

CORE seminor

180th and 181th Core seminor will held on November 28.Check here!


September.24.2024

Prof. Otani Receives Fellow Award from Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP)

Professor Yukitoshi Otani received the Fellow Award from the Japan Society of Applied Physics.  



LATEST PAPER


Design framework of computer-generated hologram that performs volumetric beam shaping for advanced laser processing

Opt. Continuum 3, 1244-1253 (2024)
N. Kuroo and Y. Hayasaki

Evolution of geometric phase and explaining the geodesic rule

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 41, 2014-2022 (2024)
N. Hagen, Luis Garza-Soto

Femtosecond laser drilling controlled with laser-generated ultrasound pressure

Applied Physics B,Volume 130, article number 220, (2024)
Yoshio Hayasaki, Takuma Miura

Multiplication of Aerial Images Toward Four Directions Using Non-Parallel Beam Splitters in AIRR

ITE Transactions on Media Technology and Applications , Vol.12 ,44 - 53 (2024).
Kohei Kishinami, Kengo Fujii, Masaki Yasugi, Shiro Suyama, Hirotsugu Yamamoto

Formulation and evaluation of polarization-modulated tripe-view information display with three TN-LCD layers

Optical Review ,Vo.31 ,215 - 224 (2024).
Keitaro Uchida, Shiro Suyama, Hirotsugu Yamamoto

UV パルスレーザテクスチャリングによる A5052 アルミ ニウム合金の接着性向上に関する表面改質

J. Japan Inst. Light Metals, 74 (1),18–21 (2024).
桑野亮一, 日野実, 徳永剛, 永田教人, 古賀俊彦, N. Hagen, 大谷幸利

The analysis of the coloration of the neck feathers in Jungle Crows and Carrion Crows

accepted in Ornithological Science (2024).
C. Maniwa, N. Hagen, Y. Otani, A. Obara, & M. Aoyama

Using polarization cameras for snapshot imaging of phase, depth, and spectrum

Jaccepted in Optical Review (2024).
N. Hagen & Y. Otani

Aerial Display That Reconstructs Face Orientation by Use of Spatial Blending of Two Face Images

Journal of the Society for Information Display, Vol.32, 89-99 (2024)
Kohei Kishinami, Keigo Sato, Masaki Yasugi,Shiro Suyama,Hirotsugu Yamamoto

Differences between geometric phase and propagation phase: clarifying the boundedness problem

Appl. Opt,63,645–653 (2024).
L. Garza-Soto, N. Hagen, D. Lopez-Mago, & Y. Otani

Fourier domain filtering method for color polarization camera demosaicking

Appl. Opt,63,2314–2323 (2024).
N. Hagen, T. Stockmans,Y. Otani, & P. Buranasiri

THz Radiation from Subwavelength Volumes on Water Surfaces and in Air: Effects of Mass Density Gradients and External Magnetic Fields

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2024).
Hsin-Hui Huang, Takeshi Nagashima, Kota Kumagai, Yoshio Hayasaki, Vygantas Mizeikis, Saulius Juodkazis, Vladimir T. Tikhonchuk, Koji Hatanaka

Fine 3D control of THz emission in air with dual femtosecond laser pre-pulses at tunnelling ionisation regime

Light: Advanced Manufacturing 5, 30, 1-13 (2024).
Hsin-Hui Huang, Takeshi Nagashima, Kota Kumagai, Yoshio Hayasaki, Vygantas Mizeikis, Saulius Juodkazis, Vladimir T. Tikhonchuk, Koji Hatanaka

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