ODG (Optics Design Group of OSJ / Japan)

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.