| MOC/GRIN '89 |
1989 MOC Award | William A. Gambling (Southampton University) |
| 1989 MOC Award | Teiji Uchida (NEC Corporation) |
| 1989 GRIN Award | Erich W. Marchand (University of Rochester) |
| 1989 GRIN Award | Ichiro Kitano (Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.) |
| MOC '91 |
1991 MOC Award | Shun-ichi Tanaka (Science University of Tokyo) |
| 1991 MOC Award | Ramu V. Ramaswamy (University of Florida) |
| MOC/GRIN '93 |
1993 MOC/GRIN Special Award | Yasuharu Suematsu (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| 1993 MOC Award | Kenichi Iga (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| 1993 GRIN Award | Duncan T. Moore (University of Rochester) |
| MOC '95 |
1995 MOC Award | Hiroshi Nishihara (Osaka University) |
| 1995 MOC Award | Chen S. Tsai (University of California, Irvine) |
| MOC/GRIN '97 |
1997 MOC/GRIN Award | Alain Carenco (France Telecom/CNET) |
| 1997 MOC/GRIN Award | Tadashi Kojima (KONICA Corporation) |
| 1997 MOC/GRIN Award | Giok-Djan Khoe (Eindhoven University of Technology) |
| 1997 MOC/GRIN Award | Koichi Nishizawa (Polytechnic University) |
| MOC '99 |
1999 MOC Award | Hans Melchior (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) |
| 1999 MOC Award | Masao Kawachi (NTT) |
| MOC '01 |
2001 MOC Award | Karl Joachim Ebeling (University of Ulm) |
| 2001 MOC Award | Kenya Goto (Tokai University) |
| 2001 MOC Award | W. John Tomlinson (JDS Uniphase) |
| MOC '03 |
2003 MOC Award | Kunio Tada (Kanazawa Institute of Technology) |
| 2003 MOC Award | Paul Lagasse (Ghent University) |
| 2003 MOC Award | Shing Chung Wang (National Chiao Tung University) |
| MOC '05 |
2005 MOC Award | Yasuo Kokubun (Yokohama National University) |
| 2005 MOC Award | David N. Payne (University of Southampton) |
| 2005 MOC Award | Wilfrid Veldkamp (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) |
| 2005 MOC Contribution Award | Wolfgang Karthe (Fraunhofer IOF) |
| MOC '07 |
2007 MOC Award | Yasuhiro Koike (Keio University) |
| 2007 MOC Award | John Bowers (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
| 2007 MOC Award | Hugo Thienpont (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) |
| 2007 MOC Contribution Award | Kazuo Kuroda (University of Tokyo) |
| 2007 MOC Contribution Award | Young-Pil Park (Yonsei University) |
| 2007 MOC Contribution Award | Young-Joo Kim (Yonsei University) |
| MOC '09 |
2009 MOC Award | Kashiko Kodate (Japan Women's University) |
| 2009 MOC Award | Meint K. Smit (TU Eindhoven) |
| 2009 MOC Award | Connie Chang-Hasnain (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 2009 MOC Contribution Award | Hirochika Nakajima (Waseda University) |
| 2009 MOC Contribution Award | Heidi Ottevaere (Vrije University Brussels) |
| 2009 MOC Contribution Award | Jürgen Mohr (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) |
| MOC '11 |
2011 MOC Award | Roel Baets (Ghent University) |
| 2011 MOC Award | Shun Lien Chuang (University of Illinois) |
| 2011 MOC Award | Fumio Koyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| 2011 MOC Contribution Award | Gen-ichi Hatakoshi (Toshiba Corporation) |
| 2011 MOC Contribution Award | Hao-chung Kuo (National Chiao Tung University) |
| 2011 MOC Contribution Award | Tien-chang Lu (National Chiao Tung University) |
| MOC '13 |
2013 MOC Award | Andreas Bräuer (Fraunhofer IOF) |
| 2013 MOC Award | Christopher R. Doerr (Acacia Communications Inc.) |
| 2013 MOC Award | Masataka Nakazawa (Tohoku University) |
| 2013 MOC Contribution Award | Kiyoshi Yokomori (Japan Science and Technology Agency) |
| MOC '15 |
2015 MOC Award | Masayuki Izutsu (JSPS San Francisco, Waseda Univ.) |
| 2015 MOC Award | Yang Hee-Lee (Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Tech.) |
| 2015 MOC Award | David J. Richardson (University of Southampton) |
| 2015 MOC Contribution Award | Marce P. De Micheli (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis) |
| MOC2017 |
2017 MOC Award | Yasuhiko Arakawa (University of Tokyo) |
| 2017 MOC Award | Philip Russell (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light) |
| 2017 MOC Award | Ming C. Wu (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 2017 MOC Contribution Award | Tetsuya Mizumoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| MOC2019 |
2019 MOC Award | Benjamin J. Eggleton (The University of Sydney Nano Institute) |
| 2019 MOC Award | Waguih S. Ishak (Corning Research & Development Corporation) |
| 2019 MOC Award | Susumu Noda (Kyoto University) |
| 2019 MOC Contribution Award | Shinji Yamashita (University of Tokyo) |
| 2019 MOC Contribution Award | Kiichi Hamamoto (Kyushu University) |
| 2019 MOC Contribution Award | San-Liang Lee (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology) |
| MOC2021 |
2021 MOC Award | Dieter Bimberg (CIOMP, CAS, Changchun / TU Berlin) |
| 2021 MOC Award | Federico Capasso (Harvard University) |
| 2021 MOC Award | Tsutomu Hara (Hamamatsu Photonics) |
| 2021 MOC Award | Katsumi Kishino (Sophia University) |
| 2021 MOC Contribution Award | Tomoyuki Miyamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
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| 2021 MOC Contribution Award | Hajime Shoji (Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.) |
| MOC2023 |
2023 MOC Award | Akihiko Kasukawa (Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.) |
| 2023 MOC Award | Marko Loncar (Harvard University) |
| 2023 MOC Award | Martin Wegener (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) |
| 2023 MOC Contribution Award | Uwe Detlef Zeitner (Fraunhofer IOF) |
| 2023 MOC Contribution Award | Satoshi Iwamoto (University of Tokyo) |
| 2023 MOC Contribution Award | Ryuichi Katayama (Fukuoka Institute of
Technology) |
| 2023 MOC Contribution Award | Kazuhisa Yamamoto (Osaka University) |
