Amnon Yariv
Amnon Yariv (born April 13, 1930 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli professor of applied physics and electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology . There he deals with the development of semiconductor lasers and other light sources, photonic crystals , optical storage media, WDM filters and the like. a.
biography
After serving in the Israeli army, Yariv began studying electrical engineering at the Technion in Haifa in September 1950 .
In early 1951 he moved to the USA and began studying at San Mateo Junior College, but after one semester he switched to the University of California, Berkeley . There he achieved the degrees of Bachelor of Science 1954, Master of Science 1956 and Ph.D. 1958.
From 1959 he worked at Bell Laboratories . In 1964 he finally switched to Caltech and has been a professor there since 1966.
Yariv is a co-founder of Ortel Corporation (founded in 1979, taken over by Lucent in 2000 ) and Orbits Lightwave Inc. (founded in 1999).
Honors, prizes and memberships (selection)
- 1980: Quantum Electronics Award ( IEEE )
- 1982: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1985: Pender Award (University of Pennsylvania)
- 1986: Frederic Ives Medal ( OSA )
- 1991: Admission to the National Academy of Sciences
- 1992: Harvey Prize
- 1998: Esther Hoffman Beller Medal ( OSA )
- 2009: National Medal of Science (USA)
- 2016: Elected to the National Academy of Inventors
- 2017: Honorary Member of the Optical Society of America
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 , 3rd Edition, Wiley 1989, ISBN 0471609978
- Amnon Yariv, Pochi Yeh: Photonics Optical Electronics in Modern Communication , 6th Edition, Oxford University Press 2006, ISBN 0195179463
- Amnon Yariv: Catching the wave , IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 6 (6), p. 1478 (2000), doi : 10.1109 / 2944.902204 - an autobiography
Web links
- Optical and Quantum Electronics Laboratory (Prof. Amnon Yariv). In: California Institute of Technology. (English).
- Literature by and about Amnon Yariv in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Amnon Yariv Awarded National Medal of Science. In: caltech.edu. October 15, 2010 (English).
- ^ Professor Yariv Elected to National Academy of Inventors. In: caltech.edu. December 13, 2016 (English).
- ^ Professor Yariv Elected As Honorary Member of The Optical Society. In: caltech.edu. October 31, 2017 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yariv, Amnon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli physicist, professor of applied physics and electrical engineering |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |