Tuesday, September 09, 2008
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
Watson 104
Applied Physics Seminar
Series: Applied Physics Seminar Series
3-D Sub-Wavelength Photonic Circuits Fabricated by Fast Ion Implantation
Aharon Agranat,
professor of applied physics,
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel,
Speaker's Bio:
Professor Ronny Agranat is the chairman of the department of Applied Physics and the incumbent of the Nahman Jaller chair of Applied Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Agranat holds a B.Sc degree in physics and mathematics (1977), an M.Sc degree in Applied Physics (1980), and a PhD degree in physics (1986) all from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His Ph.D thesis was on the subject of the dielectric mechanism of the photorefractive effect which he discovered together with his Ph.D advisor Professor Y. Yacoby. From 1986 to 1997 he was a senior research fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he worked on the development of microelectronic artificial neural networks based on charge transfer devices which he invented, and the growth and investigation of paraelectric photorefractive crystals. In 1991 he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founded the optoelectronic computing laboratory. The laboratory mission is to conceive and develop optoelectronic devices and systems that will expand the capabilities of the computing and communication technologies that are the physical basis of the cyberspace. One of the main themes pursued by Agranat is to exploit the special features of the quadratic electrooptic effect at the paraelectric phase for the purpose of constructing various optoelectronic device, in particular for wavelength selective switching applications. To that end Agranat invented and developed a new electrooptic crystal: potassium lithium tantalate niobate (KLTN). Agranat is the inventor of Electroholography which is a generic optical switching method based on governing the reconstruction process of volume holograms by the applications of electric fields.
Professor Ronny Agranat is the chairman of the department of Applied Physics and the incumbent of the Nahman Jaller chair of Applied Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Agranat holds a B.Sc degree in physics and mathematics (1977), an M.Sc degree in Applied Physics (1980), and a PhD degree in physics (1986) all from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His Ph.D thesis was on the subject of the dielectric mechanism of the photorefractive effect which he discovered together with his Ph.D advisor Professor Y. Yacoby. From 1986 to 1997 he was a senior research fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he worked on the development of microelectronic artificial neural networks based on charge transfer devices which he invented, and the growth and investigation of paraelectric photorefractive crystals. In 1991 he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founded the optoelectronic computing laboratory. The laboratory mission is to conceive and develop optoelectronic devices and systems that will expand the capabilities of the computing and communication technologies that are the physical basis of the cyberspace. One of the main themes pursued by Agranat is to exploit the special features of the quadratic electrooptic effect at the paraelectric phase for the purpose of constructing various optoelectronic device, in particular for wavelength selective switching applications. To that end Agranat invented and developed a new electrooptic crystal: potassium lithium tantalate niobate (KLTN). Agranat is the inventor of Electroholography which is a generic optical switching method based on governing the reconstruction process of volume holograms by the applications of electric fields.
"3-D Sub-Wavelength Photonic Circuits Fabricated by Fast Ion Implantation," Aharon Agranat, professor of applied physics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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