The Team

Postdocs

• Sharon Gilead, “A spectroscopic fiber optic eye probe for early detection of memory disorders”

 

Ph.D. Students

• David Kuperman (jointly with Prof. Moshe Tur), “A Time-Dependent Mueller-Like Formulation for the Study of PMD” (2005)

• Avi Zadok, “Dynamic Optical Filters: Implementation, Characterization and Applications” (2008)

• Adi Sheinfeld, “Photo-acoustic circular dichroism for protein detection” (direct track) (2013)

• Idan Steinberg (jointly with Prof. Israel Gannot), “Multispectral photoacoustic method for the early detection and diagnosis of Osteoporosis disease” (2016)

• Haniel Gabai – “Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors” (2018)

• Lihi Shiloh – “Dynamic Strain Sensing” (2021) (jointly with Prof. Raja Giryes)

• Nadav Arbel – “Quasi-Distributed Acoustic Sensing (Q-DAS)” (2025), Thesis

 

Master Students

• Nir Simon (A program without thesis), “The Dependence of the Output Stokes Parameters on the State of an Arbitrarily Located Polarization Controller in PMD Mitigation Schemes” (2004)

• Gadi Gurfinkel, “PMD measurements in non-unitary systems and non-unitary PMD compensation” (2007)

• Shachar Ainbinder (A program without thesis), “Polarization Mode Dispersion Implementation of a real time equalizer” (2007)

• Ohad Gal, “PMD Mitigation via Polarimetric Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (POTDR)” (2008)

• Eran Kaufman, “Novel signals for Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR)” (2008)

• Oren Buskila (jointly with Dr. Mark Shtaif), “Secure Communication in Fiber Optic Systems via Transmission of Broad-Band Optical Noise” (2009)

• Gil Linenberg (jointly with Prof. Rafi Korenstein and Prof. Shmuel Sternklar), “Measurements of erythrocytes elastic modulus using differential confocal microscopy” (2009)

• Ariel Oni, “An interferometric fiber optic sensor array” (2012)

• Ori Weinstein, “Novel polarimetric approaches for fiber optic sensor arrays” (2012)

• Elad Bergman, “Photo-acoustic spectroscopy for protein detection” (2009)

• Amit Issaroff, “A fiber optic sensor array for underground detection of acoustical activity ” (2012)

• Tom Shperber, “Application of Radar Signals in Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry” (2010)

• Inon Katz, “A fiber optic sensor array based on fiber Bragg gratings ” (2012)

• Yossi Grots, “Detection of underground activity” (2012)

• Oren Sagiv, "Photoacoustic imaging of spinal nerve cells " (2012)

• Hadas Hershkovich "The use of nanoparticles in Photoacoustic imaging" (2014)

• Dror Arbel “A reflectometric fiber optic sensor array ” (2014)

• Adva Bar-Am, “A fiber optic array of hydrophones” (2015)

• Lihi Shiloh, “Distributed fiber sensors signal processing” (2015)

• Benjamin Kohn, “Spectral Band Analysis for OFDR Systems” (2016)

• Itai Shpatz, "Fiber optic sensing" (2018)

• Nina Shpalensky (jointly with Dr. Yossi Yovel), "Recording bats via optical fiber sensors" (2018)

• Daniel Marima (jointly with Dr. Alon Bahabad), "inscribing gratings in waveguides using femtosecond lasers" (2019)

• Dekel Yadid, "Phase synthesis in circuit imager" (2020) 

• Maya Yanko, “Compressed distributed acoustic sensing” (2021)

 

B.Sc. Students (final project)

• Michal Galperin "Development of an ocular Photoacoutic imaging system"

• Noa Berger " Development of an ocular Photoacoutic imaging system"

• Ido Sheinfeld “A laser diode based photoacoustic system”

• Ariel Lipovetzky “A laser diode based photoacoustic system”

• Gilad Koifman “Distributed sensing with a multimode fiber”

• Tomer Avrahami “Distributed sensing with a multimode fiber”

• Dor Yaakobovich “A modulator based fiber sensor interrogator”

• Netanel Savich “A modulator based fiber sensor interrogator”

• Eyal Leviatan “Field test of a fiber optic sensor array”

• Omri Levi “Multi-spectral photoacoustic system”

• Yuval Luxenburg “Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry”

• Tomer Grinblat “Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry”

• Itamar Cohen "Distributed Acoustic Sensing"

• Noa Zaltzman "Distributed Acoustic Sensing" 

 

 TAU Youth education program (Future Scientists and Alpha program)

• Yaron Itkin "Reflectometric fiber sensors"

• Itay Bloch "Reflectometric fiber sensors"

• Maya Sarid "Effect of phase noise on DAS"

• Amichai Etzion "Effect of non-linear scan on DAS"

• Omer Arian "Phase noise characterization in optical fiber-based sensors"

• Liav Cohen "Real time analysis of OTDR systems"

• Yair Ben Naeh "Pulse compression comparison in Q-DAS systems: Ternary codes vs. Binary codes"