Cryogenic photonics aims at operating lasers, modulators and detectors at temperatures ranging from 4 K to 100 K. This requires completely new designs based on new device physics. The aim is to improve significantly the efficiency and energy consumption of optical links in data centers.
Research group: Eisenstein Group (PI: Gadi Eisenstein)
Contact: gad@technion.ac.il
Group website: https://gad.net.technion.ac.il/
Exploring advanced quantum methods, such as photon bunching, to improve the sensitivity, efficiency, and signal-to-noise ratio of X-ray detection systems.
Research group: AdQuanta (PI: Ido Kaminer)
Contact: Dr. Tal Fishman, ftal@ef.technion.ac.il
Group website: https://kaminer.net.technion.ac.il/
Can artificial intelligence uncover hidden phenomena in complex quantum systems? Combine machine learning with quantum physics to discover patterns, identify phase transitions, and explore the collective behavior of quantum many-body systems.
Research group: Segev Group (PI: Moti Segev)
Contact: Oded Schiller, odedschiller@campus.technion.ac.il
Group website: https://phsites.technion.ac.il/msegev/
Work with the Technion’s attosecond scanning tunnelling microscope, where you induce and control electric currents on the attosecond time scale (10-18s).
Research group: Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics Group (PI: Michael Krueger)
Contact: krueger@technion.ac.il
Group website: https://phsites.technion.ac.il/attonano/
This project aims to develop theory of laser-driven ultrafast electron dynamics in 2D materials nanoribbons. These are 1D-periodic structures with edge states that can have topological properties and form conducting channels with enhanced transport. Dynamics of exciting and driving currents through these states is largely unexplored on femtosecond timescales (we recently explored this in 2D flakes – https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21121). Students will develop theoretical tight-binding models that describe these systems, including the surface and spin-orbit coupling, and use them to explore time-dependent dynamics in the electronic states driven by the laser. We aim to understand how to excite these states effectively, and enhance their robustness to dissipation and scattering.
Research group: Neufeld Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics Theory Group (PI: Ofer Neufeld)
Contact: ofern@technion.ac.il
Group website: https://sites.google.com/view/neufeld-theory
Ultra fast optical excitations drive active quantum dot ensembles into the quantum coherent regime leading to many quantum optic phenomena shedding light on the behavior of sources on the sub ps time scale.
Research group: Eisenstein Group (PI: Gadi Eisenstein)
Contact: gad@technion.ac.il
Group website: https://gad.net.technion.ac.il/
This project integrates for the first time the two most important photonic technologies of the last decade: silicon photonics (silicon nitride based) and VCSELs to form new functionalities not possible otherwise.
Research group: Eisenstein Group (PI: Gadi Eisenstein)
Contact: gad@technion.ac.il
Group website: https://gad.net.technion.ac.il/
Imagine light traveling around sharp corners and imperfections without scattering. Discover how topology enables robust, protected states of light and explore the exciting possibilities of topological photonic systems.
Research group: Segev Group (PI: Moti Segev)
Contact: Oded Schiller, odedschiller@campus.technion.ac.il
Group website: https://phsites.technion.ac.il/msegev/
Different semiconductor optical amplifiers are developed aimed at compensating losses in photonic circuits.
Research group: Eisenstein Group (PI: Gadi Eisenstein)
Contact: gad@technion.ac.il
Group website: https://gad.net.technion.ac.il/
Use bright squeezed vacuum, an intense quantum state of light, to drive nonlinear processes in plasmonic structures
Research group: Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics Group (PI: Michael Krueger)
Contact: krueger@technion.ac.il
Group website: https://phsites.technion.ac.il/attonano/
What if we could control light by changing materials in time? Explore the fascinating physics of photonic time crystals, where light can be amplified, reflected in time, and manipulated in ways impossible in conventional optical systems.
Research group: Segev Group (PI: Moti Segev)
Contact: Oded Schiller, odedschiller@campus.technion.ac.il
Group website: https://phsites.technion.ac.il/msegev/
Data center requirements have reached levels of hundreds of Gbit/s – rates that no conventional devices can offer. New structures based on coherently coupled devices as well as the use of new materials will lead to the desired speeds. This project includes also new electro optic techniques to characterize such fast devices.
Research group: Eisenstein Group (PI: Gadi Eisenstein)
Contact: gad@technion.ac.il
Group website: https://gad.net.technion.ac.il/
Investigating a novel approach to encoding, manipulating, and measuring quantum information using continuous-variable (CV) physical systems, such as free electrons. The project will explore theoretical and practical methods for realizing qubits and quantum operations in these systems.
Research group: AdQuanta (PI: Ido Kaminer)
Contact: Dr. Tal Fishman, ftal@ef.technion.ac.il
Group website: https://kaminer.net.technion.ac.il/
Quantum technologies offer new opportunities to overcome the classical limitations of electron microscopy. The project will investigate coherent electron–photon interactions and advanced electron-beam control methods to enable novel imaging and measurement capabilities.
Research group: AdQuanta (PI: Ido Kaminer)
Contact: Dr. Tal Fishman, ftal@ef.technion.ac.il
Group website: https://kaminer.net.technion.ac.il/
Students will develop quantum state preparation and detection techniques for molecules, including the required hardware ie laser technologies and narrowband lasers, electronics, vacuum engineering and ion optics.
Research group: Molecular Quantum Technology Lab (PI: Yuval Shagam)
Contact: yush@technion.ac.il
Group website: https://shagam.net.technion.ac.il/
We are developing advanced algorithms for imaging through scattering tissue.
Seeing inside tissue is one of the hardest barriers in biomedical research and in medical imaging, mostly because cells inside the tissue aberrate and scatter the light waves passing through it. Even after propagating through tissue layers as thin as a few dozen micrometers, the resulting images are highly aberrated and are uninterpretable by the human eye. Despite this we develop computational tools which can see biological components such as fluorescent neurons, deep inside the tissue.
The research will combine tools in optics and algorithmic processing, including adaptive optics surfaces, machine learning, statistics and advanced optimization. In particular, we are looking for students in a new project applying NeRF (Neural radiance fields) methods for the reconstruction of 3D structures in microscope images.
Research group: Computational Photography Lab (PI: Anat Levin)
Contact: anat.levin@ee.technion.ac.il
Group website: https://webee.technion.ac.il/people/anat.levin/
We are looking for a curious and motivated student to investigate complex dynamics in a Mamyshev oscillator—an ultrafast fibre laser that may reproduce a phenomenon never experimentally demonstrated in any physical system: a heterodimensional cycle. This unusual behaviour links states with different numbers of unstable directions and connects laser physics with ideas from fluid dynamics, turbulence, and weather predictability.
No previous knowledge of ultrafast optics is required; a basic background in electromagnetics and a willingness to learn are sufficient. During the project, the student will gain experience in numerical simulations, nonlinear dynamics, laser physics, and scientific computing, with the possibility of contributing to a genuinely novel experimental discovery.
Research group: Advanced Fiber Sources (PI: Pavel Sidorenko)
Contact: sidorenko@technion.ac.il
Group website: https://pslab.net.technion.ac.il/
Explore the strange and fascinating world of quantum light, from single photons to quantum entanglement. Discover how quantum states of light can be generated and controlled, opening new possibilities for quantum communication, computing, and sensing.
Research group: Segev Group (PI: Moti Segev)
Contact: Oded Schiller, odedschiller@campus.technion.ac.il
Group website: https://phsites.technion.ac.il/msegev/