Microoptics Group
Award List of Microoptics Conference (MOC)
[MOC Award]
The Award honors outstanding technical contributions to the fundamentals and/or applications of microoptics.

[GRIN Award]
The Award honors outstanding technical contributions to the fundamentals and/or applications of GRIN optics.

[MOC Contribution Award]
The Award honors outstanding contributions to the organization of Microoptics Conference.

ConferenceAwardRecipients
MOC/GRIN '89 1989 MOC AwardWilliam A. Gambling (Southampton University)
1989 MOC AwardTeiji Uchida (NEC Corporation)
1989 GRIN AwardErich W. Marchand (University of Rochester)
1989 GRIN AwardIchiro Kitano (Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.)
MOC '91 1991 MOC AwardShun-ichi Tanaka (Science University of Tokyo)
1991 MOC AwardRamu V. Ramaswamy (University of Florida)
MOC/GRIN '93 1993 MOC/GRIN Special AwardYasuharu Suematsu (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
1993 MOC AwardKenichi Iga (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
1993 GRIN AwardDuncan T. Moore (University of Rochester)
MOC '95 1995 MOC AwardHiroshi Nishihara (Osaka University)
1995 MOC AwardChen S. Tsai (University of California, Irvine)
MOC/GRIN '97 1997 MOC/GRIN AwardAlain Carenco (France Telecom/CNET)
1997 MOC/GRIN AwardTadashi Kojima (KONICA Corporation)
1997 MOC/GRIN AwardGiok-Djan Khoe (Eindhoven University of Technology)
1997 MOC/GRIN AwardKoichi Nishizawa (Polytechnic University)
MOC '99 1999 MOC AwardHans Melchior (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
1999 MOC AwardMasao Kawachi (NTT)
MOC '01 2001 MOC AwardKarl Joachim Ebeling (University of Ulm)
2001 MOC AwardKenya Goto (Tokai University)
2001 MOC AwardW. John Tomlinson (JDS Uniphase)
MOC '03 2003 MOC AwardKunio Tada (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)
2003 MOC AwardPaul Lagasse (Ghent University)
2003 MOC AwardShing Chung Wang (National Chiao Tung University)
MOC '05 2005 MOC AwardYasuo Kokubun (Yokohama National University)
2005 MOC AwardDavid N. Payne (University of Southampton)
2005 MOC AwardWilfrid Veldkamp (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
2005 MOC Contribution AwardWolfgang Karthe (Fraunhofer IOF)
MOC '07 2007 MOC AwardYasuhiro Koike (Keio University)
2007 MOC AwardJohn Bowers (University of California, Santa Barbara)
2007 MOC AwardHugo Thienpont (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
2007 MOC Contribution AwardKazuo Kuroda (University of Tokyo)
2007 MOC Contribution AwardYoung-Pil Park (Yonsei University)
2007 MOC Contribution AwardYoung-Joo Kim (Yonsei University)
MOC '09 2009 MOC AwardKashiko Kodate (Japan Women's University)
2009 MOC AwardMeint K. Smit (TU Eindhoven)
2009 MOC AwardConnie Chang-Hasnain (University of California, Berkeley)
2009 MOC Contribution AwardHirochika Nakajima (Waseda University)
2009 MOC Contribution AwardHeidi Ottevaere (Vrije University Brussels)
2009 MOC Contribution AwardJürgen Mohr (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)
MOC '11 2011 MOC AwardRoel Baets (Ghent University)
2011 MOC AwardShun Lien Chuang (University of Illinois)
2011 MOC AwardFumio Koyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
2011 MOC Contribution AwardGen-ichi Hatakoshi (Toshiba Corporation)
2011 MOC Contribution AwardHao-chung Kuo (National Chiao Tung University)
2011 MOC Contribution AwardTien-chang Lu (National Chiao Tung University)
MOC '13 2013 MOC AwardAndreas Bräuer (Fraunhofer IOF)
2013 MOC AwardChristopher R. Doerr (Acacia Communications Inc.)
2013 MOC AwardMasataka Nakazawa (Tohoku University)
2013 MOC Contribution AwardKiyoshi Yokomori (Japan Science and Technology Agency)
MOC '15 2015 MOC AwardMasayuki Izutsu (JSPS San Francisco, Waseda Univ.)
2015 MOC AwardYang Hee-Lee (Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Tech.)
2015 MOC AwardDavid J. Richardson (University of Southampton)
2015 MOC Contribution AwardMarce P. De Micheli (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis)
MOC2017 2017 MOC AwardYasuhiko Arakawa (University of Tokyo)
2017 MOC AwardPhilip Russell (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light)
2017 MOC AwardMing C. Wu (University of California, Berkeley)
2017 MOC Contribution AwardTetsuya Mizumoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
MOC2019 2019 MOC AwardBenjamin J. Eggleton (The University of Sydney Nano Institute)
2019 MOC AwardWaguih S. Ishak (Corning Research & Development Corporation)
2019 MOC AwardSusumu Noda (Kyoto University)
2019 MOC Contribution AwardShinji Yamashita (University of Tokyo)
2019 MOC Contribution AwardKiichi Hamamoto (Kyushu University)
2019 MOC Contribution AwardSan-Liang Lee (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology)
MOC2021 2021 MOC AwardDieter Bimberg (CIOMP, CAS, Changchun / TU Berlin)
2021 MOC AwardFederico Capasso (Harvard University)
2021 MOC AwardTsutomu Hara (Hamamatsu Photonics)
2021 MOC AwardKatsumi Kishino (Sophia University)
2021 MOC Contribution AwardTomoyuki Miyamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
2021 MOC Contribution AwardHajime Shoji (Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.)
MOC2023 2023 MOC AwardAkihiko Kasukawa (Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.)
2023 MOC AwardMarko Loncar (Harvard University)
2023 MOC AwardMartin Wegener (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
2023 MOC Contribution AwardUwe Detlef Zeitner (Fraunhofer IOF)
2023 MOC Contribution AwardSatoshi Iwamoto (University of Tokyo)
2023 MOC Contribution AwardRyuichi Katayama (Fukuoka Institute of Technology)
2023 MOC Contribution AwardKazuhisa Yamamoto (Osaka University)