Prof. Yeshaiahu Fainman (Curriculum Vitae)
Cymer Chair in Advanced Optical Technologies
Office: 3406 Engineering Building Unit 1
Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407
Email:
yfainman@ucsd.edu
Phone:
(858) 534-8909
Fax:
Fax: (858) 534-1225
Ph. D., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1983
M. Sc., Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1979
B. Sc., M. Sc Lvov Polytech. Inst., USSR, 1970
Research interests: Applied optics and photonics
Optical Communications and Interconnections; Nanophotonics; Ultrafast Optics; Optical Information Processing Systems; Nonlinear and Diffractive Optics; Coherence Properties of Optical Field Scattered from a Moving Phase Screen; Photonic Networks; Optical Storage
Professor Fainman joined the faculty at UCSD in July 1990 following a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan. Current research interests in his group include the investigation of artificial dielectric properties of nanostructures; polarization selective computer generated holograms and their applications for image processing, transparent photonic switching fabric and networks, and packaging optoelectronic devices and systems; programmable diffractive optical elements; 3-D holographic optical storage; diffractive optics with multifunctionality; optical information processing with femtosecond laser pulses; nonconventional 3-D imaging and displays; quantum cryptography for photonic network security and privacy.
Honors and Distinctions
- 2006 Brown Award for Quantum Computing
- 2006 Faculty Advisor for SPIE Student Chapter Recognition
- 2006 Lady Davis Fellowship
- 2004 Fellow of SPIE
- 2003 Fellow of the IEEE
- 1995 Fellow of the Optical Society of America
- 1995 Topical Editor of Optical Signal Processing and Imaging Science for JOSA:A
- 1982 Miriam and Aharon Gutvirt Prize, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- 1970 Honors Diploma, Lvov Polytechnic Institute, USSR
