Amnon Yariv (born 1930, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli and American professor of applied physics and electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology , known for his developments in the field of optoelectronics .
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Biography
Amnon Yariv was born in 1930 in Tel Aviv in a family immigrating from Poland. During the Revolutionary War, he served in the artillery unit stationed in Latrun and was discharged after two years of service in the summer of 1950. Immediately he began to study at the Technion , but a year later he went to the United States, when he was admitted to the University of California at Berkeley . He studied electrical engineering and radio and received a master's degree in 1954 and in 1958 he defended his doctoral dissertation in the field of masers , microwave lasers.
In 1960, he moved to Bell's laboratory in New Jersey, where he continued to study lasers with James Gordon. In 1964 he returned to California and began working at the California Institute of Technology . In 1967, he published papers on quantum electronics, one of the first texts in the field of quantum electronics and laser physics.
In 1980, he founded Ortel Corporation, which was sold in 2000 to Lucent. In 1991 he became a member of the American Academy of Sciences .
He was an employee of the Sackler Institute of Tel Aviv University and has visited it many times.
Amnon Yariv is the author of several works on optoelectronics and photonics . [2] [3] He himself said that the main result of the work of his group was the invention of a distributed feedback semiconductor laser . The device is widely used in fiber optic communication on the Internet. [four]
About 60 patents are registered in his name.
Recognition
- Member of the US National Academy of Sciences since 1991.
The awards include:
- 1980 - IEEE Quantum Electronics Award .
- 1985 - University of Pennsylvania Harold Pender Prize .
- 1986 - Frederick Ives Medal .
- 1992 - Harvey Prize at the Haifa Technion for innovative contributions to electro-optics, wave propagation in crystals, and nonlinear optics.
- 2010 - The US National Science Medal for “the scientific and engineering contribution to photonics and quantum electronics, which has deeply affected the field of optical fiber communications and optics in general.” [4]
- 2011 - IEEE Photonics Award . [five]
Publications
- Amnon Yariv: Introduction to Optical Electronics, Holt 1971, ISBN 0030846943
- Amnon Yariv: Introduction to Theory and Applications of Quantum Mechanics, Wiley 1982, ISBN 0471060534
- Amnon Yariv: Optical Electronics, Holt 1984, ISBN 0030702895
- Amnon Yariv, Pochi Yeh: Optical Waves in Crystals, Wiley 1984, ISBN 0471091421
- Amnon Yariv: Quantum Electronics, 3. Auflage, Wiley 1989, ISBN 0471609978
- Amnon Yariv, Pochi Yeh: Photonics Optical Electronics in Modern Communication, 6. Auflage, Oxford University Press 2006, ISBN 0195179463
- Amnon Yariv: Catching the wave, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 6 (6), S. 1478 (2000), - autobiography
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 138499799 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Amnon Yariv. Optical Electronics. - 4th. - Oxford University Press, 1995. - ISBN 978-0-19-510736-4 .
- ↑ Amnon Yariv and Pochi Yeh. Photonics: optical electronics in modern communications. - 6th. - Oxford University Press, 2007. - ISBN 978-0-19-517946-0 .
- ↑ 1 2 Yariv Awarded National Medal of Science . photonics.com (Nov 2, 2010).
- ↑ IEEE Photonics Award Recipients . Date of treatment November 7, 2010.