Prof. Yonatan Sivan

Prof. Yonatan Sivan Profile




Department : Photonics and Electro-Optics Engineering Unit
Room : 112
מתקן חלוץ - 64
Phone : 972-74-7728934
972-8-6479805
Email : sivanyon@bgu.ac.il
Office Hours :  
physics

Education

  • 2002 – 2008 PhD in Physics, Tel-Aviv University Thesis title: “Soliton stability and dynamics in nonlinear inhomogeneous media”
  • Advisors: Prof. Gadi Fibich, Prof. Shimshon Barad 2004 – 2007 B.A. in History and Music, Tel Aviv University 1999 – 2002 B.A. in Physics, Technion, Israel Institute for Technology

Research Interests

  • Nano-photonics and nonlinear optics, plasmonics and metamaterials

Research Projects

  • 1. super-resolution microscopy assisted by plasmonic nano-particles
  • 2. magnetic and negative index metamaterials - new designs and loss compensation
  • 3. ultrafast manipulations of short optical pulses in photonic crystals and plasmonic waveguides - time reversal, short pulse generation and ultrafast switching.
  • 4. nonlinear focusing in plasmonic waveguides
  • 5. harmonic generation in plasmonic particle clusters

Existing collaborations

  • Imperial College London, UK University of Twente, The Netherlands Tel Aviv University, Israel

Looking for expertise / project

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