♠Name

Optics Design Group of The Optical Society of Japan

♠Established

July 1993

♠Membership

Individual members: 200 (approximately)
Corporate members: 7 organizations
Supporting members: 9 corporations

♠Supporting member

Canon Inc.
Cybernet Systems Co., Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd.
Konica Minolta, Inc.
Nikon corporation
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
Team-Opt Corporation
Topcon Corporation
Panasonic Corporation

♠Representative

Masanobu HASEGAWA (Canon)

♠Steering Committee

Hiroto SAKAI (HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.)
Katsumoto IKEDA (Ansys Japan)
Tomotaka TANIGUCHI (Mitsubishi Chemical)
Shunpei YUKITA (Synopsys)
Tatsuro IWASAKI (Fuji Film)
Masafumi HASHIMOTO (Konica Minolta)
Ayumu MAKIDA (Nikon)
Tomohide MORIMOTO (Mitsubishi Electric)
Takafumi YUKIMORI (Topcon)
Mitsuru NAGASAWA (Hitachi)
Hiroyuki SHOBAYASHI (Panasonic Holdings)
Shinichiro TAJIRI (Sony Group)
Yukihisa YOKOYAMA (Ricoh)
Yuki KUBOTA (Olympus)
Yuuichiro YAMAMOTO (Toshiba)

♠Adviser

Yoshiki ICHIOKA (Osaka Univ)
Kimiaki YAMAMOTO (KM Optlab)
Kashiko KODATE (Japan Women's Univ)
Hiroshi MIYAMAE (Team Opt)
Koichi MARUYAMA (Maruyama Optics Lab)
Mitsuo TAKEDA (Utsunomiya Univ)
Hirofumi TSUCHIDA (Team Opt)
Takashi MORI (Nikon)
Keisuke ARAKI (Utsunomiya Univ)
Takuji SATO (Topcon)
Yasuhiro TANAKA (Panasonic)
Susumu YAMAGUCHI (Koica Minolta)
Takeshi SHIMANO (Hitachi)

♠About ODG
(Optics Design Group)

The Optics Design Group (ODG) was founded as a study group of the Optical Society of Japan (OSJ) in July 1993. With its long history, the optics design technology constantly seeks ever-sophisticated optical equipment and elements, and is foreseen as the very core technology of the future optical industry.
However, Japan enjoys little intercommunication between researchers' communities to share their knowledge: a critical problem that can sharply hamper further technological development in the discipline. To overcome these drawbacks, ODG was founded for the purpose of increasing interfaces among researchers and contributing to the advancement of R&D in the field of optical science and technology.
ODG organizes workshops and international conferences; it also supports academic presentations, awards optics design prizes, and publishes bulletins.
ODG is concerned with a wide range of optical design techniques and optical elements such as lens design, optics design, optical product fabrication, measurement and evaluation, to include optical design software, etc.
Adaptive fields include all such as embrace diffractive optics, optical memory, optical communication, soft x-ray optics, optical computing, optical integrated circuit (OIC), adaptive optics, nonimaging optics, and optical thin films.