Graduate students (past and present):

  1. Shmuel Sternklar, 1987, Ph.D. Thesis title: “Control of Laser Beams and Optical Information with Photorefractive Oscillators”; was researcher at the Soreq Nuclear Research Center; now Professor at Ariel (Yehuda-Ve-Shomron) College.

  2. Shimon Weiss, 1989. Ph.D. : “Dynamics of Photo-Refractive Oscillators”, Present Position: Professor at the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Physiology (Medical School).

  3. Mordechai Segev, 1990, Ph.D. : “Photorefractive Wave Mixing and Applications in Waveguides and Semiconductor Lasers”; Present Position: Professor at the Technion Physics Department, Haifa.

  4. Yoav Ophir, 1991, M.Sc. : “Self Scattering of Light Beams and Formation of Short Pulses in Laser Arrays”. Present Position: Elbit, Haifa.

  5. Moshe Horowitz, 1991, M.Sc.: “Filtering Behavior of Wave Mixing in Photorefractive media”, M.Sc. Present Position: Assoc. Professor at the Technion EE Department.

  6. Ofer Werner, 1992, Ph.D.: “Nonlinear Optics and Wave Mixing with Bacteriorhodopsin”; Present Position: Rafael.

  7. Ron Daisy, 1993, M.Sc.: “Optical bistability and coupling at interfaces of nonlinear and linear media”.

  8. Neri Strassman, 1993, M.Sc. “Light coupling to complex cavities and to fibers using nonlinear mirrors”; Present Position: El-Op, Israel.

  9. Michael Snowbell, 1993, M.Sc.: “Interconnects and Coupling with Single Mode Fibers”; Presently with IBM Canada - Toronto Software Lab.

  10. Ron Naftali, 1994, M.Sc.: “Multi-mode Erbium-Doped Fiber: Laser realization, Properties and Complex resonators”; Present Position: Division Manager in Applied Materials Inc., Israel. 

  11. Moshe Horowitz, 1994,  Ph.D.: “Photorefractivity, Fixing aspects and uses in Nonlinear effects and in fibers”; Present Position: Assoc. Professor at the Technion EE Department.

  12. Yuri Mitnick, 1995, M.Sc.: “Dynamics of Grating Formation in Optical Fibers”; Presently with a US high-tech company.

  13. Aviad Peda'el, 1996, M.Sc.: “Interference Induced Transparency in Saturable Absorbers and Fixing by Light of Waveguide Structures in Ohotorefractive Crystals”; Presently with Efrat, Israel.

  14. Ron Daisy, 1997  Ph.D.: “Dynamics in Nonlinear Fiber Optics Systems”. Presently a cofounder of a high-tech company, Israel.

  15. Amir Rosen, 2000, M.Sc. “Localization Effects of Light and their Experimental Verification”,  Presently Ph.D. student at Technion.

  16. Boris Vodonos, 2001, M.Sc. “Temporal Talbot Effect in Optical Fibers and its use for Mode-locking of Fiber Lasers with High Dispersion”.

  17. Ofer Shapira, 2001, M.Sc.: “Localization properties of Light Propagation in an Array of Randomly Spaced Gratings in a Single Mode Fiber”; Presently Research associate at MIT, USA.

  18. Assaf Ben-Bassat, 2001 M.Sc.: “Cascaded Stimulated Brillouin Scattering and Dynamic Optical Filters by Gain Gratings in Fibers"; Presently with Intel.

  19. Shimie Atkins, 2002, M.Sc.: “Temporal Talbot Effect and Related Dispersion Effects with Applications in Light Pulse Propagation in Fibers and Fiber Lasers”, Presently with Rafael, Israel.

  20. Ariel Gordon, 2004,  Ph.D. :“Statistical Mechanics Approach and Order-Disorder Phenomena in Nonlinear Many-Mode Optical Systems”; Presently Pot-doc at MIT, Cambridge USA.

  21. Boris Vodonos, Ph.D. , “Experimental Study of the Noise Effect on Pulse Formation in Lasers Following a Statistical-Mechanics Approach”.

  22. Omri Gat, Post-doc, 2003-2005; Present position: Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University Physics Department in Jerusalem.

  23. Amir Rosen, Ph.D.

  24. Rafi Weill, M.Sc ® Ph.D.

  25. Michael Katz, M.Sc ® Ph.D.

  26. Pavel Grinberg, M.Sc.

  27. Alon Schwartz, M.Sc.

  28. Chen Zach, M.Sc.