OPTI340 Class Project won Prize at Student Optical Design Competition<\/strong><\/p>\r\n2025: https:\/\/www.synopsys.com\/blogs\/optical-photonic\/2025-robert-s-hilbert-memorial-optical-design-competition-results.html<\/p>\r\n
2023: https:\/\/www.synopsys.com\/optical-solutions\/learn\/competition\/competition-winners2023.html<\/p>\r\n
2021: https:\/\/www.synopsys.com\/optical-solutions\/learn\/competition\/competition-past-winners2021.html<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Lab Culture<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
State-of-the-art research topics and methodology:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMEMS and Solid-state Lidar, Advanced Displays for AR\/VR\/MR, Large THz Space Optics, Unconventional Optical Lens Design, Grating Photonics, Volume Holograms, Embedded Electronics, MEMS, Digital Micromirror Devices, Phase Light Modulators, Ultra High-speed MEMS SLM, Holographic Display. Free-space Optical Communication Terminals.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Team collaborations, growing up while helping with each other:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTeamwork, hands-on and agile research process, open and frequent interactions with peer students, engineers in industry, professors, and researchers over the world.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Increasing visibility in engineering community<\/strong>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThrough publications, presenting at conferences, collaborating with peers and industrial segments, you will increase your visibility and learn communication skills: effective writing of technical documents and impactful presentation.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
In the past, we were awarded three best student papers at SPIE Photonics West, in 2025, 2022, and 2020. Also, Micromachines Best Paper Award presented in 2024 for MEMS-DMD Hybrid Lidar published in 2022.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to Takashima “Advanced Lidar and Display” Lab. (2025) For PhD\/MS\/BS students who are interested in state-of-the-art research in optical engineering and photonics, hands-on lab work, and teamwork experience, please contact Prof. Takashima (AKA “Sensei”) to arrange for participating in weekly group meetings in person. (2025) We work together as a highly motivated, agile, and rapid-paced research group, attendance to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/takashima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/takashima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/takashima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/takashima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/takashima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/takashima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/takashima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/takashima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}