Department of Optical Engineering Utsunomiya University

2016(January・February・March・April・May・June・July・August・September・October）

October

14 October

From 11th to 13th of October 2016, International Workshop on Photonics Polymer for Innovation (IWPPI) was held at Hotel SunValley Nasu. The workshop was attended by more than 150 participants consist of well-known researchers in optics from Japan and abroad. From our laboratory,　Prof. Sugihara delivered invited oral presentation and some researches present their research results at poster session.

July

20 July

Utsunomiya University held the first social meeting of Optoelectronics Industry and Technology 2016 hosted by the Optics Industry　Promotion Association in Tochigi. The theme of this meeting is the future prospects of optical device for automatic automotive operation. The first part of the meeting discussed optical waveguide device using high performance photonic polymer material and its technology for automatic operation in the vehicles delivered by Prof. Sugihara.　The second part discussed plastic optical fiber as high-speed and large-capacity in optical transmission delivered by Mr. Takahashi, director of the POF promotion company.

May

1 May

Two new students were assigned to our laboratory.　Currently, we have fifteen laboratory members (1 professor, 7 Graduate students, 4 Undergraduate students and 4 project member).

March

1 March

Professor Nunzi from Queens university, Canada delivered a special lecture about the　photovoltaic cell at the Utsunomiya University. He explained fundamental and recent solar cell technology. At the end of the lecture, participants discussed the photovoltaic cell technology and its efficiency.

2015(January・February・March・April・May・June・July・ August・September
・October・Nobember・December）

December

3 December

We had lunch together to welcome two new students in our group. These new students are good in baseball and softball. Utsunomiya University holds baseball and softball tournament among the laboratories several times a year. Utsunomiya University expects the students are good in the ball games as good as in research.

October

11 October

We participated in the CEATEC Japan, which is a large scale international comprehensive exhibition that bring together competing innovation capabilities, propose the new ‘NEXT’ and work towards realizing new businesses in the future. The exhibition that was held at the Makuhari Messe on October 7-10, 2015 was divided into 3 categories: Lifestyle & Society Stage, NEXT Innovation Area and Key Technologies Stage. We demonstrated a Silicon-Organic Hybrid Optical Modulator attached to the camera to transmit high definition video/data in the Key Technologies Stages. This result is part of the S-Innovation project goal where a large scale integration of high-speed optical interconnect module for the vehicles applications will be realized in one chip.

July

21 July

It was an "Open Campus" day for the Yoto and MIne campuses of Utsunomiya University. The "Open Campus" is an event whitch leaves a good chance to senior high school students to experimence in-deep. As an advanced optical engineering lab, we introduced optical fibers and demonstrated laser beam transmission experiment to the audiences. In spite of the first time for our lab to joint this big event, we received a lot of interests and concerns from the participants.

May

15 May

The anniversary ceremony for the foundation of the department of Advanced Optical Engineerring was held at the Academia hall of Utsunomiya University. To celebrate the ceremony, the invited lecture by Prof. James G. Fujimoto from MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and poster session were programmed. In the ceremony, we proudly untroduced our research works to all participants. We were encouraged by the students, stuffs and participants from industrial companies.

April

1 April

Our lab changed from the Center for Optical Research & Education to the advanced Optical Engineering. Our office was moved to 4th floor at 10th building. More detaile for the department at optical engineering, please click here.

February

9 February

We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiasm new students to join our laboratory. In our laboratory, the students will study optical waveguide devices such as planar optical waveguide including optical field distribution in the optical fibers and high performance optical materials for optical communication applications. Our main target is creating optical circuits to establish the complete optical devices on a board. We would like to recruit ambitious students who want to have better understanding, realization capabilities, and investigate more deeply of the optical circuits. The research theme will be decided after sufficient discussions between the students and the teaching staff. For inquiry please send an e-mail to the following address: oki-sugihara(at)cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp :Please replace (at) with @.

2014(July・August・September・October）

October

10 October

We demonstrated a comparison of the high definition camera pictures transmitted by the light transmission and the electric transmission at the International Conference on Plastic Optical Fibers (ICPOF). It is a part of the results of the S-innovation project. In this conference Prof. Sugihara gave a lecture on the recent progress of optical interconnection devices using photonic polymers. S-innovation project is a joint research project among the following partners: Toyota Central R&D Labs., Denso Corporation, Fujifilm Corporation, Yamagata University, and Tohoku University.

September

8 September

We participated in the 8th Utsunomiya Companies Exchange Meeting organized by the Utsunomiya University. This event consist of presentations and exhibitions between Utsunomiya University and many companies such as Atago manufacturing corporation, Keisokugiken corporation, and,　Kikkoman corporation.This time we presented a movie about low-loss inconnection and a poster on the future solution of potonic polymer.

July

9 July

We introduced our research laboratories during the student visit as a part of the optics course. The students visited our material characterization and device fabrication laboratory where they saw the material characterization equipments and cleanroom. The students also visited our optical waveguide characterization laboratory. Here, we demonstrated the optical waveguide measurement technique and propagation laser light in the plastic optical fiber, another type of the optical waveguides and showed some optical waveguide devices. Prof. Sugihara delivered brief information about the importance of the advanced photonic-based information and telecommunication technology such as high-speed and broad-bandwidth data transmission systems.

8 July

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