Amnon Yariv

Amnon Yariv (* April 1930 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli professor of applied physics and electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He works there with the development of semiconductor lasers and other light sources, photonic crystals, optical storage media, WDM filters, among others

Biography

After his time in the Israeli army Yariv began in September 1950 an electrical engineering degree at the Technion in Haifa.

Beginning of 1951 he moved to the U.S. and began studying at San Mateo Junior College, changed after one semester but at the University of California, Berkeley. He reached there, the Bachelor of Science in 1954, Master of Science in 1956, Ph.D. In 1958.

From 1959 he worked at Bell Laboratories. In 1964, he moved finally to Caltech, where he freelanced as a professor since 1966.

Yariv is co-founder of Ortel Corporation Company ( founded in 1979, acquired in 2000 by Lucent ) and Orbits Lightwave, Inc. ( founded in 1999 ).

Awards

Publications

• Amnon Yariv: Introduction to Optical Electronics, Holt, 1971, ISBN 0030846943
• Amnon Yariv: Introduction to Theory and Applications of Quantum Mechanics, Wiley 1982, ISBN 0471060534
• Amnon Yariv: Optical Electronics, Holt, 1984, ISBN 0030702895
• Amnon Yariv, Pochi Yeh: Optical Waves in Crystals, Wiley 1984, ISBN 0471091421
• Amnon Yariv: Quantum Electronics, 3rd edition, Wiley, 1989, ISBN 0471609978
• Amnon Yariv, Pochi Yeh: Photonics Optical Electronics in Modern Communications, 6th Edition, Oxford University Press 2006, ISBN 0195179463
• Amnon Yariv: Catching the wave, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 6 (6 ), pp. 1478 ( 2000), doi: 10.1109/2944.902204 - an autobiography