2023 Guangdong-Technion Leadership in Science and Technology Lecture by Prof. Moti Segev-Technion

Title

Topological Insulator Lasers (拓扑绝缘体激光器)

Speaker: Moti Segev

Robert J. Shillman Distinguished Professor

Physics Department and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Technion-Israel Institute of Technolog

Time and Location

Mar. 27 2023, Monday, 7:00-8:00pm(Beijing Time), 2:00-3:00 pm (Israel Time), E310 (Educational Building, 3rd floor)

Language

English

Abstract

Topological Insulator Lasers are arrays of semiconductor lasers arranged on a photonic chip in a way that endows them with topological features, such that the ende result is very many lasers acting as a single coherent radiation source. The is an example of an idea that went all the way from basic science to real promising technology.

Biography

Prof. Mordechai (Moti) Segev is the Robert J. Shillman Distinguished Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, at the Technion, Israel. He received his BSc and PhD from the Technion in 1985 and 1990. After postdoc at Caltech, he joined Princeton as Assistant Professor (1994), becoming Associate Professor in 1997, and Professor in 1999. Subsequently, Moti went back to Israel, and in 2009 was appointed as Distinguished Professor (highest Technion rank, held only by 4 other active faculty members).

Moti’s interests are mainly in photonics, solitons, lasers, and quantum optics. He won numerous international awards, among them the 2007 Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physics Society, the 2009 Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America, and the 2014 Arthur Schawlow Prize of the American Physical Society. In 2011, he was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences, in 2015 to the National Academy of Science (USA), and in 2021 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). In 2014 Moti Segev won the Israel Prize (highest honor in Israel) and in 2019 he has won the EMET Prize.

Above all his achievements, Moti takes pride in the success of his graduate students and postdocs, among them are currently 23 professors in the USA, Germany, Taiwan, Croatia, Italy, India, China and Israel, and many holding senior R&D positions in the industry.