Biography:Amnon Yariv
Amnon Yariv | |
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אמנון יריב | |
 Professor Amnon Yariv at Caltech in 2010 | |
| Born | April 13, 1930 Tel Aviv, British Mandate Palestine |
| Known for | Optoelectronics |
| Awards | Harold Pender Award (1985) National Medal of Science (2009) IEEE Photonics Award (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied physics, electrical engineering |
| Institutions | Caltech |
| Notable students | Kerry Vahala, Joyce Poon, Avraham Gover |
Amnon Yariv (Hebrew: אמנון יריב; born April 13, 1930) is an Israeli-American professor of applied physics and electrical engineering at Caltech, known for innovations in optoelectronics. Yariv obtained his B.S., M.S. and PhD. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1954, 1956 and 1958, respectively.[1]
Career
In 2010, Yariv was selected as a winner of the National Medal of Science for "scientific and engineering contributions to photonics and quantum electronics that have profoundly impacted lightwave communications and the field of optics as a whole".[2] He has also been selected to receive the IEEE Photonics Award for 2011.[3]
His work has also been recognized by the Optical Society of America. He is a Fellow, and has received the Frederic Ives Medal and Esther Hoffman Beller Medal. In 2017, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Society.[4]
Yariv has authored several texts on optical electronics and photonics.[5][6] He has said that the highlight of his group's work was the invention of the semiconductor distributed feedback laser, a device widely used in the Internet's fiber-optic communications.[2]
Personal life
Amnon Yariv currently resides in Pasadena, California. He was married to Frances Yariv (deceased March 2025). He has three daughters: Danielle Yariv, Dana Yariv and Gabriela (Gavi) Yariv.
References
- ↑ "Amnon Yariv". American Institute of Physics. https://history.aip.org/phn/11509006.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Yariv Awarded National Medal of Science". photonics.com. Nov 2, 2010. http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=44812.
- ↑ "IEEE Photonics Award Recipients". http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/photonics_recipients.html.
- ↑ "David J. Wineland and Amnon Yariv Named 2017 Honorary Members of The Optical Society | Optica". https://www.optica.org/about/newsroom/news_releases/2017/david_j_wineland_and_amnon_yariv_named_2017_honorary_members_of_the_optical_society/.
- ↑ Amnon Yariv (1995). Optical Electronics (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510736-4.
- ↑ Amnon Yariv and Pochi Yeh (2007). Photonics: optical electronics in modern communications (6th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517946-0.
External links
- Optical and Quantum Electronics Laboratory, Yariv's Caltech group
- Laureate Photos with President Obama
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