Amnon Yariv

Amnon Yariv is the Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on the theoretical and technological underpinning of optical communication, with present projects including new types of semiconductor lasers, optical phase-lock systems and coherent photonics, hybrid Si/III-V devices for lasers, detectors and modulation, and "Slow" light propagation in artificial periodic dielectric waveguides.