Amnon Yariv
Amnon Yariv · Science & Medicine
Physicist; optoelectronics and integrated photonics
1930, Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine
Israel · United States
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Amnon Yariv is an Israeli-American physicist and Caltech professor who is a founder of the fields of optoelectronics and integrated photonics, contributing to semiconductor lasers, nonlinear optics and optical communications that underpin modern fibre networks. His textbooks trained generations of engineers. He is Jewish and Israeli-born.
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Physicist; optoelectronics and integrated photonics
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