C on f e r e n c e C h a i r s ’ W e l c o m e L e t t e r s & C o m m i t t e e sLaser Display and Lighting Conference 2021
LDC 2021

ConferenceSponsored byThe Optical Society of Japan

Conference Co-chair

Conference Co-chair

Conference Co-chair

Prof. Kazuo Kuroda

Prof. Hiroshi Murata

Dr. Fergal Shevlin

Utsunomiya Univ.

Mie Univ.

DYOPTYKA

Welcome to the 10th Laser Display and Lighting Conference, LDC 2021!
LDC is an international conference on laser displays, laser lighting, and related technologies. The 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 6~8th LDC
were held in Yokohama, Japan in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017~2019, respectively, the 3rd in Taichung, Taiwan in 2014, and the 5th inJena, Germany in 2016. The 9th LDC was intended to be held in Yokohama, Japan, and switched to an on-line conference owing to theCOVID-19 situation. The 10th LDC, LDC 2021 is being held as an on-line conference from 19st to 22nd April 2021. LDC 2021 issponsored by the Optical Society of Japan, in cooperation with several academic societies and associations, and is operated by the Laser
Display Research Group, the Optical Society of Japan.
LDC 2021 is intended to provide a central forum for the update and review of scientific and technical information on laser display
and lighting covering a wide range of fields from fundamental research to systems and applications.
A total of 34 papers will be presented during the 4-day conference, consisting of 2 keynote talks, 15 invited papers, and 17
contributed papers; the relatively small number of submissions seems related to the difficulty of undertaking work of sufficient novelty
for LDC over the last year due to the consequences of COVID-19 on our professional activities. A few post-deadline papers may beaccepted.
In LDC 2021, three special sessions focusing on advanced AR, MR, VR XR technologies will be held on 19th and 20th April, where
we will have stimulating invited talks from 6 expert speakers and contributed talks from 6 active speakers. Two exciting special sessions
entitled ‘Laser Technologies for Automotive Applications’ will also be held with a number of distinguished speakers on 21st April. In
these special sessions, state-of-the-art visible laser technology including excellent laser headlamps, advanced lidar, and new challenges
for automotive, will be presented and discussed. After all the technical sessions, a ceremony for the LDC Best Paper Award and the LDC
Student Award will be held for exceptional papers commended for their outstanding achievement.
We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all the presenters and participants of LDC 2021 for their contribution to the successof the conference. We also express our sincere thanks to the Takano-Eiichi Hikari-Kagaku-Kikin (Optical Science Foundation), theJapanese Society of Applied Physics, for the financial support. We hope that all the attendees enjoy the conference.

CONFERENCE CHAIR<Co-Chairs>

Kazuo Kuroda Utsunomiya Univ.
Hiroshi Murata Mie Univ.
Fergal Shevlin DYOPTYKASTEERING COMMITTEE<Co-Chairs>

Kazuhisa Yamamoto Osaka Univ.
Norihiro Ohse SONY
<Members>

Makio Kurashige Dai Nippon Printing
Atsushi Motogaito Mie Univ.
Keizo Ochi Osaka Univ.
Kayo Ogawa Japan Women’s Univ.
Shouichi Ozawa Techno Management
Research
Fumio Narusawa HIOKI E.E. Corp.
Shinji Saito Toshiba Corp.
Ichiro Sato Bosch Corp.
Tsutomu Shimura Univ. of Tokyo
Tsuyoshi Suzudo Ricoh IndustrialSolutions

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Takunori Taira National Inst. of NaturalScience
Masashi Wada Gooch & Housego JapanPROGRAM COMMITTEE<Co-Chairs>

Sunao Kurimura National Inst. forMaterials Science
Tetsuya Yagi Nichia Corp.
Shining Zhu Nanjing Univ.
<Vice co-chairs>

Tatsushi Hamaguchi SONY
Muneharu Kuwata Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
Hirotsugu Yamamoto Utsunomiya Univ.
<Members>

Frank Fischer BST
Abdelmalek Hanafi BMW
Hidekazu Hatanaka Ushio
Ray-Hua Horng National Chiao Tung Univ.
Masafumi Ide Lamda Works
Takaaki Ishigure Keio Univ.
Masato Ishino Osaka Univ.
Shunji Kamijima Epson

Young-Joo Kim Yonsei Univ.
Junichi Kinoshita Osaka Univ.
Takuya Kushimoto Kyoto Univ.
Masaru Kuramoto Stanley
Hisashi Masuda Oxide
Osamu Matoba Kobe Univ.
Hiroyuki Matsumoto Iwasaki ElectricTomoyuki Miyamoto Tokyo Inst. Tech.
Satoshi Ouchi Hitachi
Lung-Han Peng National Taiwan Univ.
Y-Q Qin Nanjing Univ.
Masayuki Takayama Honda
ADVISARY MEMBERS
Ray-Hua Horng National Chung Hsing Univ.
Yasuhiro Koike Keio Univ.
Shigeo Kubota Oxide Corp.
Takashige Omatsu Chiba Univ.
Brian Schowengerdt Univ. of Washington
Hiroaki Sugiura Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
Toshiaki Suhara Osaka Univ.
Andreas Tünnermann Fraunhofer
Institute, IOF
OPIC 2021・19-22 April, 2021