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Erez Hasman

Erez Hasman

Head of Atomic-Scale Photonics Lab

Education

  • B.Sc Physics and Astronomy (with honors), Tel-Aviv University, 1981.
  • M.Sc. Physics (with honors), Israel Institute of Technology, Technion,
    Haifa, 1985.
  • Ph.D Applied Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 1992.
    Thesis: “Holographic optical elements for far IR radiation”.
    Supervisor: Prof. A.A. Friesem.

Research Interests

Atomic-scale photonics, Nanophotonics, Metasurfaces, Plasmonics, Spinoptics, Quantum photonics, Quantum materials, Quantum sensing and devices, Low dimensional materials, 2-D materials and devices, Quantum light sources, Quantum Metamaterials and Metasurfaces, Topological photonics

Honors and Awards (Selected only)

  • Salomon Simon Mani Award for Excellence in Teaching, Technion, 2002.
  • The Henry Taub Prize for Academic Excellence, Technion, 2009.
  • Award for Excellence in Teaching, Technion, 2010.
  • Award for outstanding contribution to the success of the IHTC14 as a
  • Keynote Speaker “Manipulation of a Thermal Emission by Use of Micro and Nanoscale Structures” at the 14th International Heat Transfer Conference
    Washington, DC, USA, August 8-13, 2010.
  • Award for Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA), 2012; “for pioneering contributions in the field of nano-photonics, and specifically for developing a new branch in optics-spinoptics: the symmetry breaking in nanostructures due to spin-orbit interaction“.
  • Award for Schlesinger Chair, Technion 2015.

 Selected Publications (from 2008)

  • “Observation of the spin-based plasmonic effect in nanoscale structures”, Y. Gorodetski, A. Niv, V. Kleiner, and E. Hasman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043903-1 – 043903-4 (2008).
  • “Coriolis effect in optics: Unified geometric phase and spin-Hall effect”, K. Bliokh, Y. Gorodetski, V. Kleiner, and E. Hasman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 030404-1 – 030404- 4 (2008).
  • “Geometrodynamics of spinning light”, K. Bliokh, A. Niv, V. Kleiner, and E. Hasman, Nature Photonics 2, 748-753 (2008).
  • “Observation of optical spin symmetry breaking in nanoapertures”, Y. Gorodetski, N. Shitrit, I. Bretner, V. Kleiner, and E. Hasman, Nano Lett. 9, 3016-3019 (2009). * Selected as Research Highlight in Nature Materials 8, 612 (2009).
  • “Geometric Doppler effect: spin-split dispersion of thermal radiation “, N. Dahan, Y. Gorodetski, K. Frischwasser, V. Kleiner, and E. Hasman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136402-1 136402-4 (2010).
  • “Plasmonic Aharonov-Bohm effect: Optical spin as the magnetic flux parameter”, Y. Gorodetski, S. Nechayev, V. Kleiner, and E. Hasman, Phys. Rev. B 82, 125433-1 125433- 4 (2010).
  • “Optical spin-Hall effects in plasmonic chain”, N. Shitrit, I. Bretner, Y. Gorodetski, V. Kleiner, and E. Hasman, Nano lett. 11, 2038-2042 (2011).
  • “Weak measurements of light chirality with a plasmonic slit”, Y. Gorodetski, K.Y. Bliokh, B. Stein, C. Genet, N. Shitrit, V. Kleiner, E. Hasman, and T.W. Ebbesen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 013901-1 013901-5 (2012); Synopsis: Weak measurement of polarization by slit (in PRL website).
  • “Spin-optical metamaterial route to spin-controlled photonics”, N. Shitrit, I. Yulevich, E. Maguid, D. Ozeri, D. Veksler, V. Kleiner and E. Hasman, Science 340, 724-726 (2013). (selected as the highlight research)
    “Dielectric gradient metasurface optical elements”, D. Lin, P. Fan, E. Hasman, M. Brongersma, Science 345, 298-302 (2014).
  • “Optical mode control by geometric phase in quasicrystal metasurface”, I. Yulevich, E. Maguid, N. Shitrit, D. Veksler, V. Kleiner and E. Hasman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 205501-5 (2015); selected as PRL editors’ suggestion.
  • “Photonic spin-controlled multifunctional shared-aperture antenna array “, E. Maguid, I. Yulevich, D. Veksler, V. Kleiner, M. Brongersma and E. Hasman, Science 352 1202-1205 (2016).
  • “Multifunctional Interleaved Geometric Phase Dielectric Metasurfaces,” E. Maguid, I. Yulevich, M. Yannai,V. Kleiner, M. L. Brongersma and E. Hasman, Light: Science & Applications – Nature 2017 6, e17027; doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.27, (2017).
  • “Disorder-induced optical transition from spin Hall to random Rashba effect”, Elhanan Maguid, Michael Yannai, Arkady Faerman, Igor Yulevich, Vladimir Kleiner and Erez Hasman, Science 358, 1411-1415 (2017).
    “Quantum entanglement of the spin and orbital angular momentum of photons using metamaterials”, Tomer Stav, Arkady Faerman, Elhanan Maguid, Dikla Oren, Vladimir Kleiner, Erez Hasman* and Mordechai Segev*, Science 361, 1101-1104 (2018). (Corresponding authors)
    “Photonic topological spin Hall effect mediated by vortex pairs”, Bo Wang, Elhanan Maguid, Kexiu Rong, Michael Yannai, Vladimir Kleiner and Erez Hasman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 266101-1 266101-5(2019).
  • “Quantum Photonic Metamaterials”, Elhanan Maguid, Tomer Stav, Arkady, Faerman, Dikla Oren-Caspi, Vladimir Kleiner, Mordechai Segev and Erez Hasman (Optics in 2019), OPN, Optics & Photonics News, December 2019, 30, 46 (2019).
  • “Probing nanoscale fluctuation of ferromagnetic meta-atoms with a stochastic photonic spin Hall effect”, Bo Wang, Kexiu Rong, Elhanan Maguid, Vladimir Kleiner and Erez Hasman, Nature Nanotechnology 15, 450-456 (2020).
  • “Photonic Rashba effect from quantum emitters mediated by Berry-phase defective photonic crystal”, Kexiu Rong, Bo Wang, Avi Reuven, Elhanan Maguid, Bar Cohn, Vladimir Kleiner, Shaul Katznelson, Elad Koren and Erez Hasman, Nature Nanotechnology 15, 927-933 (2020). [News & Views, “Photonic Rashba effect”, Alex Krasnok, Nature Nanotechnology 15, 893-895 (2020).]
  • “Bright excitonic multiplexing mediated by dark exciton transition in two-dimensional TMDCs at room temperature”, Shaul Katznelson, Bar Cohn, Shmuel Sufrin, Tomer Amit, Subhrajit Mukherjee, Vladimir Kleiner, Pranab Mohapatra, Avinash Patsha, Ariel Ismach, Sivan Refaely-Abramson, Erez Hasman and Elad Koren, Materials Horizons 9, 1089-1098 (2022).
  • “Roadmap on Structured Wave: Photonic spin-orbit interactions at metasurfaces: stochastic, Rashba and quantum effects”, Kexiu Rong, Bo Wang and Erez Hasman, Journal of Optics 25, 103001 (2023).
  • “spin-valley Rashba monolayer laser”, Kexiu Rong, Xiaoyang Duan, Bo Wang, Dror Reichenberg, Assael Cohen, Chieh-li Liu, Pranab K. Mohapatra, Avinash Patsha, Vladi Gorovoy, Subhrajit Mukherjee, Vladimir Kleiner, Ariel Ismach, Elad Koren, Erez Hasman, Nature Materials, 22, 1085 (2023).
  • “Research briefing: A spin-optical monolayer laser based on a photonic spin lattice”, Kexiu Rong, Erez Hasman, Nature Materials, 22, 1061 (2023)
  • “Valley-addressable monolayer lasing through spin-controlled Berry phase photonic cavities”, X. Duan, B. Wang, K. Rong, C. Liu, V. Gorovoy, S. Mukherjee, V. Kleiner, E. Koren and Erez Hasman, Science, 381, 1429 (2023).

Plenary, Keynote, Tutorial & Invited Talks (selected lectures)

  • KEYNOTE Talk (60 minutes), “Spinoptics: Spin symmetry breaking in nanostructures”, E. Hasman, European Optical Society; EOS Topical Meeting on Diffractive Optics, Koli, Finland, 14-18 Fabruary 2010.
  • KEYNOTE Talk (60 minutes), “Manipulation of a thermal emission by use of micro- and nanoscale structures”, E. Hasman, International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-14), paper IHTC14-23379, ASME, Washington DC., USA, 8-13 August 2010.
  • KEYNOTE Talk (60 minutes), “Spin Hall effect in plasmonics”, E. Hasman, SPIE Optics+Photonics, NanoScience, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and their optical properties IX (OP104), Proceeding of SPIE Vol. 8096 80961T, San Diego, CA, USA, 21-25 August 2011.
  • “Nanoscale spinoptics in plasmonics”, E. Hasman, 29th Israel Vacuum Society IVS annual conference and technical workshop-2011, Herzliya, 6 June 2011.
  • PLENARY Talk (60 minutes), “Spinoptics: Spin degeneracy removal in nanostructures”, E. Hasman, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA, USA, 21-26 January 2012; (Photonic West is the word’s leading photonics, laser, and biomedical optics event; about 19,000 attendees).
  • “Acrobatics for thermal emission using metastructures”, E. Hasman, SPIE Photonics West, High Contrast Metastructures (OE131), San Francisco, CA, USA, 21-26 January 2012.
  • KEYNOTE Talk (45 minutes), “Spinoptics in nanostructures”, E. Hasman, SPIE Optics+Photonics, NanoScience, Spintronics V (OP108), Proceeding of SPIE Vol. 8461 Page 846116-1 846116-9, San Diego, CA, USA, 12-16 August 2012.
  • PLENARY Talk (& Coloquium), “Spinoptical metamaterials”, Workshop on Spin-orbit interaction for light and matter waves, Max-Planck-Institute for the physics of complex systems, Dresden, Germany 15-19 April 2013.
  • TUTORIAL Talk; “Spin-Optical Metasurface Route to Spin-Controlled Photonics”, CLEO 2014; CLEO/IQEC 2014, Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, San Jose, CA USA, 8-13 June, 2014.
  • KEYNOTE Talk, “Spinoptical Metasurfaces: Spin-controlled photonics”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO/Europe) and the European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC) 2015, Munich, Germany, 21 – 25 June, 2015.
  • “Photonic spin-controlled multifunctional shared-aperture antenna array”, IEEE photonics Conference, 29th Annual Conference of the IEEE Photonics Society, Waikoloa, Hawaii USA, 2-6 October 2016.
  • Tutorial Talk, “A revolution towards multitasking metasurfaces”, CLEO Pacific Rim Conference, Hong Kong, 29 July – 3 August 2018.
  • KEYNOTE Talk, “Topologically controlled multifunctional metasurfaces”, The 8th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Optofluidics 2018, (IMCO), Shanghai, China 5-8 August 2018.
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