Mordechai (Moti) Segev

The Robert J. Shillman Distinguished Professor Faculty of Physics and Faculty of Electrical Engineering Solid State Institute Technion

Selected (Most Important) Publications

  1. L. Levi, Y. Krivolapov, S. Fishman and M. Segev, Hyper-transport of light and stochastic acceleration by evolving disorder, Nature Physics 8, 912 (2012).
    ** See News & Views by M. Peccianti and R. Morandotti, Nature Physics 8, 858 (2012)
  2. A. Szameit, Y. Shechtman, E. Osherovich, E. Bullkitch, P. Sidorenko, H. Dana, S. Steiner, E.B. Kley, S. Gazit, T.Cohen-Hymas, S. Shoham, M.Zibulevsky, I. Yavneh, Y.C. Eldar. O. Cohen and M. Segev, Sparsity-based single-shot sub-wavelength coherent diffractive imaging, Nature Materials 11, 455 (2012).
  3. I. Kaminer, R. Bekenstein, J. Nemirovsky and M. Segev, Nondiffracting accelerating wave packets of Maxwell’s equations, Physical Review Letters 108, 163901 (2012)
    ** This article was selected for Editors’ Suggestion at PRL, and for Viewpoint in Physics “spotlighting exceptional research”;
    see http://physics.aps.org/articles/v5/44
    ** See Commentary, Science magazine http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/04/light-bends-by-itself.html?ref
    **  See Commentary, New Scientist magazine Self-bending light boomerangs could help surgeons By Justin Mullins
  4. M. Segev, M. Soljacic and J. m. Dudley, Fractal optics and beyond, Nature Photonics 6, 209 (2012)
  5. I. Dolev, I. Kaminer, A. Shapira, M. Segev and A. Arie, Experimental observation of self-accelerating beams in quadratic nonlinear media, Physical Review Letters 108, 113903 (2012)
  6. I. Kaminer, Y. Lumer, M. Segev and D.N. Christodoulides, Causality effects on accelerating light pulses, Optics Express 19, 23132 (2011).
  7. Y. Plotnik, O. Peleg, F. Dreisow, M. Heinrich, S. Nolte, A. Szameit, and M. Segev, Experimental observation of optical bound states in the continuum, Physical Review Letters 107, 183901 (2011).
  8. A. Szameit, M. Rechtsman, O. Bahat-Triedel, and M. Segev, PT-symmetry in honeycomb photonic lattices, Physical Review A (Rapid Communication) 84, 021806(R) 2011.
  9. Y. Shechtman, Y.C. Eldar, A. Szameit, and M. Segev, Sparsity-based subwavelength imaging with partially spatially incoherent light via quadratic compressed sensing, Optics Express 19, 14807 (2011).
  10. S. Shwartz, K.V. Adarsh, M. Segev, E. Lakin, E. Zolotyoyabko, and U. El-Hanany, Persistent light-induced change in the effective band gap and reversible control over the effective band gap in bulk semiconductor crystals, Physical Review B (Rapid Communication) 83, 241201(R) (2011).
  11. L. Levi, M. Rechtsman, B. Freedman, T. Schwartz, O. Manela and M. Segev, Disorder-enhanced transport in photonic quasicrystals, Science 332, 1541 (2011).
  12. E. Greenfield, M. Segev, W. Wallasik, and O. Raz, Accelerating light beams along arbitrary convex trajectories, Physical Review Letters 106, 213903 (2011).
  13. I. Kaminer, M. Segev, and A.M. Bruckstein, Stochastic recurrent dynamics of complex systems of solitons, Physical Review Letters 105, 083901 (2010). [See Supplementary Information File]
  14. O. Manela, M. Segev, D.N. Christodoulides, and D. Kip, Hofstadter butterflies in nonlinear Harper lattices, and their optical realizations, New Journal of Physics 12, 053017 (2010).
  15. Y. Shechtman, S. Gazit, A. Szameit, Y.C. Eldar, and M. Segev, Super-resolution and reconstruction of sub-wavelength images using incoherent light, Optics Letters 35, 1148 (2010).
  16. C.E. Ruter, K.G. Makris, R. El-Ganainy, D.N. Christodoulides, M.Segev, and D. Kip, Observation of parity-time symmetry in optics, Nature Physics 6, 192 (2010).
    ** See commentary on this article in the News & Views section of Nature Physics 6, 166 (2010)
  17. O. Bahat-Treidel, O. Peleg, M. Grobman, N. Shapira, T. Pereg-Barnera, and M. Segev, Klein tunneling in deformed honeycomb lattices, Physical Review Letters 104, 063901 (2010).
  18. Y. Lamhot, A. Barak, C. Rotschild, M. Segev, A. Saraf, E. Lifshitz, A.Marmur, R. El-Ganainy, and D.N. Christodoulides, Optical control of thermocapillary effects in complex nanofluids, Physical Review Letters 103, 264503 (2009).
  19. S. Gazit, A. Szameit, Y.C. Eldar, and M. Segev, Super-resolution and reconstruction of sparse sub-wavelength images, Optics Express 17, 23920 (2009).          
    *** see also Virtual Journal for Biomedical Imaging Vol. 5, Issue 1 (2010).
  20. O. Peleg, Y. Plotnik, N. Moiseyev, O. Cohen and M. Segev, Self-trapped leaky waves and their interactions, Physical Review A (Rapid Communication) 80, 041801(R), 2009).
  21. A. Barak, Y. Lamhot, L. Friedland, and M. Segev, Autoresonant dynamics of optical guided waves, Physical Review Letters 103, 123901 (2009).
  22. O. Peleg, M. Segev, G. Bartal, D.N. Christodoulides, and N. Moiseyev,Nonlinear Waves in Subwavelength Waveguide Arrays: Evanescent Bands and the Phoenix Soliton, Physical Review Letters 102, 163902 (2009).
  23. K. Shandarova, C. Ruter, D. Kip, K.G. Makris, D.N. Christodouldies,O. Peleg, and M. Segev, Experimental observation of Rabi oscillations in photonic lattices, Physical Review Letters 102, 123905 (2009).
  24. M. Segev and D.N. Christodouldies, Looking into a self-distorting world, Nature Photonics 3, 195 (2009).
  25. I. Kaminer, M. Segev, Y.C. Eldar, and A.M. Bruckstein, Solitonets: complex networks of interacting fields, Proceedings of the Royal Society A 465, 1093 (2009).
    **See also Supplementary Material: Animation 1, Animation 2, Animation 3.
  26. R. Dong, C. Ruter, D. Kip, O. Manela, M. Segev, C. Yang, J. Xu, Spatial frequency comb and super continuum generation in one-dimensional photonic lattices, Physical Review Letters 101, 183903 (2008).
  27. C. Rotschild, T. Schwartz, O. Cohen, and M. Segev, Incoherent solitons in effectively-instantaneous nonlocal nonlinear media, Nature Photonics 2, 371 (2008).
    ** See commentary on this article in the News & Views section of Nature Photonics 2, 334 (2008).
  28. A. Barak, O. Peleg, C. Stucchio, A. Soffer, and M. Segev, Observation of soliton tunneling phenomena and soliton ejection, Physical Review Letters 100, 153901 (2008).
  29. B. Freedman, R. Lifshitz, J.W. Fleischer, and M. Segev, Phason dynamics in nonlinear photonic quasicrystals, Nature Materials 6, 776 (2007).
  30. B. Alfassi, C. Rotschild, O. Manela, M. Segev and D.N. Christodoulides,Nonlocal surface-wave solitons, Physical Review Letters 98, 213901 (2007).
  31. O. Peleg, G. Bartal, B. Freedman, O. Manela, M. Segev and D.N. Christodoulides, Conical diffraction and gap solitons in honeycomb photonic lattices, Physical Review Letters 98, 103901 (2007).
  32.  T. Schwartz, G. Bartal, S. Fishman and M. Segev, Transport and Anderson Localization in disordered two-dimensional Photonic Lattices, Nature 446, 52 (2007). (see also Supplementary Information Section).
    ** See commentary on this article in the News & Views section of Nature 446, 37-38 (2007).
    ** See commentary on this article in the Search & Discovery section of Physics Today, Pages 22-23, May 2007 issue.
  33. C. Rotschild, B. Alfassi, M. Segev and O. Cohen, Long-range interactions between optical solitons, Nature Physics 2, 769 (2006).
    ** See commentary on this article in the the Research Highlights section of Nature Photonics, November 2006. see: http://www.nature.com/nphoton/reshigh/2006/1106/full/nphoton.2006.38.html,
  34. S. Shwartz, R. Weil, M. Segev, E. Lakin, E. Zolotoyabko, V.M. Menon, S.R. Forrest, and U. El-Hanany, Light-induced symmetry breaking and related giant enhancement of nonlinear properties in CdZnTe:V crystals, Optics Express 14, 9385 (2006).
  35. G. Bartal, O. Manela, and M. Segev, Spatial four wave mixing in nonlinear periodic structures, Physical Review Letters 97, 073906 (2006).
  36. B. Freedman, G. Bartal, M. Segev, R. Lifshitz, D.N. Christodoulides, and J.W. Fleischer, Wave and defect dynamics in nonlinear photonic quasi-crystals, Nature 440, 1166 (2006).
  37. C. Rotschild, O. Cohen, O. Manela, M. Segev and T. Carmon, Solitons in nonlinear media with an infinite range of nonlocality: first observation of coherent elliptic solitons and of vortex-ring solitons, Physical Review Letters 95, 213904 (2005).
  38. H. Buljan, M. Segev, and A. Vardi, Incoherent matter-wave solitons and pairing instability in an attractively interacting Bose-Einstein condensate, Physical Review Letters 95, 180401 (2005).
  39. G. Bartal, O. Manela, O. Cohen, J.W. Fleischer, and M. Segev, Observation of 2nd-band vortex solitons in 2D photonic lattices, Physical Review Letters 95, 053904 (2005).
  40. G. Bartal, O. Cohen, H. Buljan, J.W. Fleischer, O. Manela, and M. Segev, Brillouin-zone spectroscopy of nonlinear photonic lattices, Physical Review Letters 94, 163902 (2005).
    ** See commentary on this article in the Physics Update section of Physics Today, May 2005 issue.
  41. O. Cohen, , G. Bartal, H. Buljan, T. Carmon, J.W. Fleischer, M. Segev and D. N. Christodoulides, Observation of random-phase lattice solitons, Nature 433, 500 (2005).
  42. T. Schwartz, T. Carmon, H. Buljan, and M. Segev, Spontaneous pattern formation with incoherent “white” light, Physical Review Letters 93, 223901 (2004).
  43. O. Cohen, B. Freedman, J. W. Fleischer, M. Segev, and D. N. Christodoulides, Grating-mediated waveguiding, Physical Review Letters, 93, 103902 (2004).
  44. T. Carmon, H. Buljan, and M. Segev, Spontaneous pattern formation in a cavity with incoherent light, Optics Express 12, 3481 (2004).
    See also:      http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-12-15-3481
    ** A movie from this article has featured on the cover of the 15th issue of Optics express, Volume 12.
  45. H. Buljan, O. Cohen, J. W. Fleischer, T. Schwartz, M. Segev, Z.H. Musslimani, N.K. Efremidis, and D. N. Christodoulides, Random-phase solitons in nonlinear periodic lattices, Physical Review Letters 92, 223901 (2004).
  46. J. W. Fleischer, G. Bartal, O. Cohen, O. Manela, M. Segev, J. Hudock, and D. N. Christodoulides, Observation of vortex-ring “discrete” solitons in 2D photonic lattices, Physical Review Letters 92, 123904 (2004).
    ** A photograph from this article has featured on the cover of the 12th issue of Physical Review Letters, Volume 92.
  47. S. Shwartz,, M. Segev, and U. El-Hanany, Self-deflection and all-optical beam steering in ZnCdTe, Optics Letters 29, 760 (2004).
  48. N. K. Efremidis, D. N. Christodoulides, J. W. Fleischer, O. Cohen, and M. Segev, Two-dimensional optical lattice solitons, Physical Review Letters 91, 213906 (2003).
  49. B. Freedman, T. Carmon, M. I. Carvalho, M. Segev, and D. N. Christodoulides, Observation of locked optical kink-antikink spatial shock-waves, Physical Review Letters 91, 133902 (2003).
  50. O. Cohen, T. Schwartz, J. E. Fleischer, M. Segev, and D. N. Christodoulides, Multi-band vector lattice solitons, Physical Review Letters 91, 113901 (2003).
  51. H. Buljan, M. Soljacic, T. Carmon, and M. Segev, Cavity pattern formation with incoherent light, Physical Review E 68, 016616 (2003).
  52. M. Soljacic, K. Steiglitz, S. M. Sears, M. Segev, M. H. Jakubowski, and R. Squier, Collisions of two solitons in an arbitrary number of coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations, Physical Review Letters 90, 254102 (2003).
  53. J. W. Fleischer, M. Segev, N. K. Efremidis, and D. N. Christodoulides, Observation of two-dimensional discrete solitons in optically-induced nonlinear photonic lattices, Nature 422, 147 (2003). ** See commentary on this article in the Physics Update section of Physics Today, April 2003 issue. *** See commentary on this article in the Scatterings section of Optics and Photonic News, July 2003 issue.
  54. J. W. Fleischer, T. Carmon, M. Segev, N. K. Efremidis, and D. N. Christodoulides, Observation of discrete solitons in optically-induced real time waveguide arrays, Physical Review Letters 90, 23902 (2003).
  55. T. Carmon, M. Soljacic, and M. Segev, Pattern formation in a cavity longer than the coherence length of the light in it, Physical Review Letters 89, 183902 (2002).
  56. O. Cohen, R. Uzdin, T. Carmon, J. W. Fleischer, M. Segev and S. Odoulov, Collisions between optical spatial solitons propagating in opposite directions, Physical Review Letters 89, 133901 (2002).
  57. Z. Chen, S. M. Sears, H. Martin, D. N. Christodoulides and M. Segev, Clustering of solitons in weakly correlated systems, Proceedings of the US National Academy of Science (PNAS), 99, 5223 (2002).
  58. M. Segev and D. N. Christodoulides, Incoherent solitons: self-trapping of weakly-correlated wave-packets, Optics and Photonics News, Special Issue: Optical Solitons, vol. 13(2), 70 (2002).
  59. J. C. Bronski, M. Segev, and M. I. Weinstein, Mathematical frontiers in optical solitons, Invited Paper, Special Issue following the Frontiers of Science Symposium, Proceedings of the US National Academy of Science (PNAS) 98, 12872 (2001).
  60. T. Carmon, R. Uzdin, C. Pigier, Z. Musslimani, M. Segev, and A. Nepomnyashchy, Rotating propeller solitons, Physical Review Letters 87, 143901 (2001).
  61. Z. H. Musslimani, M. Soljacic, M. Segev, and D. N. Christodoulides, Delayed-action interaction and spin-orbit coupling between solitons, Physical Review Letters 86, 799 (2001).
  62. M. Soljacic and M. Segev, Integer and fractional angular momentum borne on self-trapped necklace-ring beams, Physical Review Letters 86, 420 (2001).
  63. G. I. Stegeman, D. N. Christodoulides, and M. Segev, Optical spatial solitons: historical perspectives, Invited Paper,Special Millennium Issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 6, 1419 (2000).
  64. C. Anastassiou, M. Soljacic, M. Segev, D. Kip, E. Eugenieva, D. N. Christodoulides and Z. H. Musslimani, Eliminating the transverse instabilities of Kerr solitons, Physical Review Letters 85, 4888 (2000).
  65. D. Kip, M. Soljacic, M. Segev, E. Eugenieva and D. N. Christodoulides, Modulation instability and pattern formation in spatially incoherent light beams, Science 290, 495 (2000).
  66. T. Coskun, D. N. Christodoulides, Y. Kim, Z. Chen, M. Soljacic and M. Segev, Incoherent anti-dark solitons, Physical Review Letters 84, 2374 (2000).
  67. S. Sears, M. Soljacic, M. Segev, D. Krylov and K. Bergman, Cantor set fractals from solitons, Physical Review Letters 84, 1902 (2000).
  68. Z. H. Musslimani, M. Segev, D. N. Christodoulides, and Marin Soljacic, Composite multi-hump vector solitons carrying topological charge, Physical Review Letters 84, 1164 (2000).
  69. M. Soljacic, M. Segev, T. Coskun, D. N. Christodoulides, and A. Vishwanath, Modulation instability of incoherent beams in non-instantaneous nonlinear media, Physical Review Letters 84, 467 (2000).
  70. G. Stegeman and M. Segev, Optical spatial solitons and their interactions: universality and diversity, Invited Paper, Special Issue on Frontiers in Optics, Science 286, 1518 (1999).
  71. C. Anastassiou, M. Segev, K. Steiglitz, J. A. Giordmaine, M. Mitchell, M. Shih, S. Lan, and J. Martin, Energy exchange interactions between colliding vector solitons, Physical Review Letters 83, 2332 (1999).
  72. E. DelRe, M. Tamburrini, M. Segev, A. Agranat and R. Della Pergola, Spontaneous self-trapping of optical beams in metastable paraelectric crystals, Physical Review Letters 83, 1954 (1999).
  73. A. Buryak, Y. S. Kivshar, M. Shih and M. Segev, Induced coherence and stable soliton spiraling, Physical Review Letters 82, 81 (1999).
  74. M. Soljacic, S. Sears and M. Segev, Self-trapping of necklace beams in self-focusing Kerr media, Physical Review Letters 81, 4851 (1998).
  75. M. Segev and G. Stegeman, Self-trapping of optical beams: spatial solitons, Physics Today, vol. 51, issue 8, pp. 42-48, August, 1998.
  76. M. Segev, Optical spatial solitons, Invited Paper, Special Issue on Spatial Solitons, Optical and Quantum Electronics 30, 503 (1998).
  77. D. N. Christodoulides, T. Coskun, M. Mitchell, Z. Chen and M. Segev, Theory of dark incoherent solitons, Physical Review Letters 80, 5113 (1998).
  78. M. Mitchell, M. Segev and D. N. Christodoulides, Observation of multi-hump multi-mode solitons, Physical Review Letters 80, 4657 (1998); See also commentary on this article in the Random Samples section of Science, vol. 280, 1697 (1998).
  79. Z. Chen, M. Mitchell, M. Segev, T. Coskun and D. N. Christodoulides, Self-trapping of dark incoherent light beams, Science 280, 889 (1998).
  80. D. N. Christodoulides, T. Coskun, M. Mitchell and M. Segev, Multimode incoherent spatial solitons in logarithmically saturable nonlinear media, Physical Review Letters 80, 2310 (1998).
  81. M. Mitchell, M. Segev, T. Coskun and D. N. Christodoulides, Theory of self-trapped spatially-incoherent light beams, Physical Review Letters 79, 4990 (1997).
  82. M. Shih, M. Segev and G. Salamo, Three dimensional spiraling of interacting spatial solitons, Physical Review Letters 78, 2551 (1997).
  83. Z. Chen, M. Segev, D. W. Wilson, R. E. Muller and P. D. Maker Self-trapping of an optical vortex by use of the bulk photovoltaic effect, Physical Review Letters 78, 2948 (1997).
  84. M. Mitchell and M. Segev, Self-trapping of incoherent white light, Nature, vol. 387, 880 (1997). See also commentary on this article in the News and Views section of the same issue: Nature, vol. 387, 854 (1997).
  85. D. N. Christodoulides, T. Coskun, M. Mitchell and M. Segev, Theory of incoherent self-focusing in biased photorefractive media, Physical Review Letters 78, 646 (1997).
  86. M. Mitchell, Z. Chen, M. Shih and M. Segev, Self-trapping of partially spatially-incoherent light, Physical Review Letters 77, 490 (1996).
  87. M. Segev, B. Collings and D. Abraham, Photorefractive Gunn effect, Physical Review Letters 76, 3798 (1996).
  88. D. Engin, S. Orlov, M. Segev, A. Yariv and G. C. Valley, Order-disorder phase transition and critical slowing down in photorefractive self-oscillators, Physical Review Letters 74, 1743 (1995).
  89. G. Duree, M. Morin, G. Salamo, M. Segev, A. Yariv, B. Crosignani and P. DiPorto, Dark photorefractive spatial solitons and photorefractive vortex solitons, Physical Review Letters 74, 1978 (1995).
  90. M. Segev, B. Crosignani, P. DiPorto, G. C. Valley and A. Yariv, Steady state spatial screening-solitons in photorefractive media with external applied field, Physical Review Letters 73, 3211 (1994).
  91. A. Kewitsch, M. Segev, A. Yariv G. Salamo, T. Towe, E. Sharp and R. R. Neurgaonkar, Ferroelectric domain gratings in Strontium Barium Niobate induced by photorefractive space-charge fields, Physical Review Letters 73, 1174 (1994).
  92. G. Duree, J. Shultz, G. Salamo, M. Segev, A. Yariv, B. Crosignani, P. DiPorto, E. Sharp and R. R. Neurgaonkar, Observation of self-trapping of an optical beam due to the photorefractive effect, Physical Review Letters 71, 533 (1993).
  93. M. Segev, R. Solomon and A. Yariv, Manifestation of Berry’s phase in image bearing optical beams, Physical Review Letters 69, 590 (1992).
  94. M. Segev, B. Crosignani, A. Yariv and B. Fischer, Spatial solitons in photorefractive media, Physical Review Letters 68, 923 (1992).
  95. M. Segev, Y. Ophir, B. Fischer and G. Eisenstein, Mode locking and frequency tuning of a laser diode array in an extended cavity with a photorefractive phase conjugate mirror, Applied Physics Letters 57, 2523 (1990).
  96. M. Segev, Y. Ophir and B. Fischer, Nonlinear multi two wave mixing, the Fanning process and its bleaching in photorefractive media, Optics Communications 77, 265 (1990).
  97. M. Segev, Y. Ophir and B. Fischer, Photorefractive self-defocusing, Applied Physics Letters 56, 1086 (1990).
  98. B. Fischer and M. Segev, Photorefractive waveguides and nonlinear mode coupling effects, Applied Physics Letters 54, 684 (1989).

Book Chapters

  1. M. Segev and D. N. Christodoulides, Incoherent solitons: self-trapping of weakly-correlated wave-packets, Chapter in the book Optical Spatial Solitons, Editors: S. Trillo amd W. Torruellas, Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001.
  2. G. I. Stegeman and M. Segev, Bright spatial soliton interactions, Chapter 18 in the book Optical Solitons: Theoretical Challenges and Industrial Perspectives, Editors: V. E. Zakharov and S. Wabnitz, Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999.
  3. M. Segev, B. Crosignani, P. DiPorto, M. Shih, Z. Chen, M. Mitchell, and G. Salamo, Photorefractive spatial solitons, Chapter 9 in the book Beam Shaping and Control with Nonlinear Optics, Editors: F. Kajzar and R. Reinisch, Publisher: Plenum Press, New York, 1998.
  4. M. Segev, B. Crosignani, G. Salamo, G. Duree, P. DiPorto and A. Yariv, Photorefractive spatial solitons, Chapter 4 in the book Photorefractive Effects and Materials, Editor: D. Nolte, Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1995.
  5. A. Kewitsch, M. Segev and A. Yariv, Permanently fixed volume phase gratings in ferroelectrics, Chapter 3 in the book Photorefractive Effects and Materials, Editor: D. Nolte, Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1995.
  6. M. Segev, G. Salamo, B. Crosignani, G. Duree, P. DiPorto and A. Yariv, Photorefractive spatial solitons, published in the book Novel Laser Sources and Applications, Editors: J. Becker, A. Tam, J. Gruber and L. Lam, Publisher: SPIE Optical Engineering Press, Bellingham, Washington, USA, 1994.
  7. M. Segev, B. Crosignani and A. Yariv, Self-trapping of optical beams in photorefractive media, Chapter 8 in the book Frontiers in Nonlinear Optics – The Sergei Akhmanov Memorial Volume, Editor: H. Walther, Publisher: Institute of Physics (“IOP”), Bristol, England, 1993.