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Mordechai Segev

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Mordechai "Moti" Segev () is an Israel physicist at the Technion who is known for his work on , nonlinear optics, , and quantum optics.

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Born in Romania in 1958, Segev emigrated with his family to Israel at the age of 3. He studied physics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, earning his bachelor's degree in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1990. After earning his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology. He then went to Princeton University in 1994 as an assistant professor, and he was promoted to associate professor in 1997 and full professor in 1999. In 1998 Segev returned to work as a professor at the Technion. In 2009 he was appointed the Robert J. Shillman Distinguished Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering.

In the 1990s, Segev discovered photorefractive spatial SolitonM. Segev, B. Crosignani, A. Yariv, B. Fischer Spatial solitons in photorefractive media, Physical Review Letters 68, 923 (1992).G. Duree, J. Shultz, G. Salamo, M. Segev, A. Yariv, B. Crosignani, P. DiPorto, E. Sharp, R. R. Neurgaonkar Observation of self-trapping of an optical beam due to the photorefractive effect, Physical Review Letters 71, 533 (1993). and incoherent solitons (or random-phase solitons).M. Mitchell, M. Segev Self-trapping of incoherent white light, Nature, Band 387, 1997, S. 880.M. Mitchell, M. Segev, T. Coskun, D. N. Christodoulides Theory of self-trapped spatially-incoherent light beams, Physical Review Letters 79, 4990 (1997). He called this the phenomenon of self-trapping in incoherent white light, and he was the first to find solitons in a two-dimensional lattice.Fleischer, Segev, Efremidis, Christodoulides Observation of two dimensional discrete solitons in optically induced nonlinear photonic lattices, Nature, Band 422, 2003, S. 147Efremidis, Hudock, Christodoulides, Fleischer Cohen, Segev Two dimensional optical lattice solitons, Phys. Rev. Lett., Band 91, 2003, S. 213906. He was also the first to demonstrate Anderson localization in a perturbed periodic system.T. Schwartz, G. Bartal, S. Fishman, M. Segev Transport and Anderson Localization in disordered two-dimensional Photonic Lattices, Nature 446, 52 (2007).