2022 ANNUAL REPORT

Prof. Moti Fridman, an expert in nonlinear and temporal optics, arrived at BIU in 2012 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, New York. He established his lab at the Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering and joined BINA as a faculty member. Developing time-lenses, temporal microscope, temporal cavities and other advanced temporal devices, Prof. Fridman provides scientists with novel tools that can profoundly impact our lore about the nature of ultrafast phenomena. Prof. Fridman and his group also utilize these tools to conduct basic research; coupled with their experience in complex temporal schemes, they present us with new fundamental knowledge and often deliver an implemental outcome. The fastest useable optical encryption is one patent that came out of Prof. Fridman’s lab, and another is an ultrafast spectrometer, which grabbed RAFAEL’s attention to the point of them choosing to assimilate it into its high-energy laser system, the Iron Beam that would bolster the Iron Dome system’s defense capacity. 19

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