Principal Investigator: Pavel Sidorenko
Faculty: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research centers on high‑power fiber laser architectures, ultra‑fast fiber amplifiers employing gain‑managed nonlinearity, pulse propagation and control in confined gain media, and application‑oriented advances in fiber‑based photonic systems.
Principal Investigator: Ofer Neufeld
Faculty: Chemistry
Theoretical investigations of femtosecond‑to‑attosecond coherent light–matter dynamics: high harmonic generation, nonlinear photocurrents, photo‑ionization, light‑dressed Floquet phases, ultrafast magnetism, charge migration, and development of time‑resolved spectroscopy methods using analytical, semi‑classical and ab‑initio (TDDFT) frameworks.
Principal Investigator: Yuval Shagam
Faculty: Chemistry
Develops precision molecular ion trapping for parity violation studies in chiral molecules, quantum coherence leveraged metrology, cold ion‑neutral chemistry near ultralow temperatures, and quantum optical techniques for molecular chirality detection and fundamental symmetry tests.
Principal Investigator: Eran Lustig
Faculty: Electrical & Computer Engineering
We are exploring fundamental and applied quantum optics on photonic microchips.
Our research is versatile, from fundamental theory to experimental quantum optics and the design and fabrication of next-generation optical microchips. We are exploring novel phenomena and pioneering the hardware that will power the future of optical technology.
Principal Investigator: Erez Hasman
Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
Prof. Hasman’s group is a pioneer in the field of nanophotonics and optical metasurfaces, specifically renowned for developing the field of Spinoptics and geometric phase phenomena. The lab focuses on fundamental and applied research in light-matter interactions, exploring topics such as the photonic Rashba effect, topological photonics, and quantum entanglement in metasurfaces. Their work aims to manipulate light at the atomic scale to create next-generation multifunctional devices, quantum sensors, and advanced light sources.
Principal Investigator: Aviv Karnieli
Faculty: Electrical & Computer Engineering
TBD
Contact: karnieli@technion.ac.il
Principal Investigator: Gadi Eisenstein
Faculty: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Studies dynamics and noise of diode lasers and optical amplifiers, semiconductor optical amplifier design (including facet engineering and characterization), photonic crystal and nano‑photonics devices, high‑speed fiber and microwave photonic systems, nonlinear fiber interactions, and timing/clock related optoelectronic phenomena.
Principal Investigator: David Gershoni
Faculty: Physics
Studies optical and electronic properties of quantum dots and nitrogen‑vacancy centers toward deterministic generation of polarization‑entangled photon cluster states and solid‑state platforms for scalable semiconductor quantum information processing.
Principal Investigator: Michael Krueger
Faculty: Physics
Investigates coherent electron dynamics at attosecond time scales and atomic to nanometer length scales in atoms, molecules and solids; develops methodologies for simultaneous high‑spatial/high‑temporal resolution imaging and spectroscopy to elucidate decoherence pathways and ultrafast quantum processes.
Principal Investigator: Oren Cohen
Faculty: Physics
Focus on circularly polarized high‑order harmonic and attosecond pulse generation, extreme nonlinear quantum optics, time‑resolved multiplexed ptychographic imaging, induction of long‑lived atmospheric waveguides by laser filaments, advanced ultrashort pulse diagnostics (including data‑driven methods), spatiotemporal soliton dynamics, sparsity‑based super‑resolution, and dynamical symmetry/selection‑rule spectroscopy.
Principal Investigator: Ron Tenne
Faculty: Chemistry
Quantum phenomena are simplest to observe in small (nanoscale) systems. However, small typically means fast (or ultrafast). Our lab tries to observe and control nano systems on fast-to-ultrafast (nanosecond-to-femtosecond) time scales aiming to stretch the limits of quantum physics.
Principal Investigator: Ido Schwartz
Faculty: Physics
Investigates optical and electronic properties of atomically thin 2D material heterostructures, exploring many‑body electron phases (e.g., Wigner crystal, Mott insulating, superconducting states) under external perturbations, and studies trapped spins and single‑photon emitters for multi‑qubit photonic entanglement in quantum information contexts.
Principal Investigator: Guy Bartal
Faculty: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research focuses on sub-wavelength optical phenomena: engineering photonic structures, super‑resolution and near‑field microscopy methods, optical metamaterials and layered media for extreme confinement, and nonlinear light–matter processes in the near field including emerging topological nano‑photonics.
Principal Investigator: Avi Zadok
Faculty: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Our group carries out research in fiber-optics and in integrated photonic devices. We look to formulate, demonstrate and employ novel effects of light-waves propagation in both media. Particular emphasis is given to nonlinear optical propagation, and to interaction between guided light and guided sound. Areas of application include optical sensors of various types, and photonic integrated circuits.
Principal Investigator: Moti Segev
Faculty: Physics and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research themes include topological photonics (insulators, artificial gauge fields, protected transport), light propagation in disordered media (Anderson localization, hyper‑transport), structure‑enabled subwavelength and super‑resolution imaging across space, time and frequency, curved‑space inspired photonic architectures, complex nonlinear optofluidics, and nanoscale photonics.
Principal Investigator: Carmel Rotschild
Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
Prof. Rotschild’s group operates at the intersection of physics, thermodynamics, and optics, utilizing thermodynamic principles to develop novel optical devices. Their research focuses on “Excitonics” – localized energy states in small molecules – to engineer energy dynamics for applications like luminescent solar power, thermal-to-electric energy conversion, and integrated on-chip lasers. The lab is highly multidisciplinary, aiming to bring device functionality down to the single-molecule level to solve challenges in energy harvesting and efficient light sources.
Principal Investigator: Yoav Schechtman
Faculty: Biomedical Engineering
Develops advanced optical microscopy modalities including super‑resolution, computational and deep learning–enhanced imaging, wavefront shaping, single‑molecule localization and live‑cell nano‑scale visualization applied to biological structure, dynamics, chromatin organization and microfluidic platforms.
Principal Investigator: Ido Kaminer
Faculty: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Scientific activity spans quantum nanophotonics, ultrafast electron–light interactions, free‑electron based radiation and imaging, and algorithmic/AI‑assisted approaches to mathematical and physical discovery, integrating fundamental quantum electrodynamics with advanced instrumentation.