Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

CURRICULUM VITAE

Shmuel Sternklar Ariel University Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Ariel, 40700 Israel email:[email protected]

Education 1984-87: D.Sc., Technion, Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Doctoral dissertation: “Photorefractive Oscillators” 1982-83: M.Sc., University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Bioengineering. Masters Thesis: “Viscoelastic model of the vitreous humor of the eye for noninvasive detection of ocular pathologies” 1976-80: B.Sc., Polytechnic Institute of N.Y., Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Academic and professional appointments Since 2010 Full Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ariel University Center 2008-2014 Head, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ariel University Center 2007-2008 Head of Graduate program in the Dept. of E.E., Ariel Univ. Center Since 2005 Director, Center for Homeland Security, Ariel University Center 2001-2010 Associate Professor, College of Judea and Samaria 2000 - 2003 Co-founder and Chief Scientist, KaiLight Technologies, Ltd.; Development of components for fiber-optic communications 2000-2001 Chief Scientist, Oriol Ltd.: Development of optical imaging system for breast cancer 1999-2001 Senior Lecturer, College of Judea and Samaria 1996-97 Visiting Professor, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, School of Applied Physics Since 1994 Consultant, Companies and VC’s in electro-optics (Israel) 1988.1999 Senior Scientist, Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Project Manager 1988 Lady-Davis Post Doctorate Fellow,Technion, Haifa

Awards 2012 Outstanding Lecturer Prize, Ariel University Center 2011 Co-author of first-prize poster, Israel Chemical Society (2011) 2010 Outstanding Lecturer Prize, Ariel University Center 2009 First place in Biztec competition, Technion 1995 Recipient of Ministry of Defense Award for creative thinking: פרס מפא"ת לחשיבה יוצרת 1988 Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Technion 1983 Lady Davis Fellowship, Technion 1982 "University Fellow" and full Doctoral scholarship, Univ. of Pennsylvania.

1 1980 BSc Magna Cum Laude, Polytechnic Univ. N.Y.; EE Honor Society

2 Research Grants

2014-2015 Israel Chief Scientist “Kamin” program: A new engineering approach to Raman spectroscopy based on all-optical fiber RF- photonics” 2014-2015 Israel Chief Scientist "Nofar" program – A new technology for sub-micron optical meterology 2009- 2015 Israel Ministry of Defence (Mafat) – Optical noise radar 2012 -2014 Israel Chief Scientist "Kamin" program-fiber-optic intrusion sensors 2010-2013 Israel Ministry of Defence (Mafat) - ultrafast laser source 2009-2010 Israel Chief Scientist "Nofar" program-Optical medical imaging 2002-2009 Israel Ministry of Defence (Mafat) - imaging through scattering media 2004-2006 Israel Chief Scientist Incubator program-viscoelastic properties of biological cells measured by differential confocal microscopy 2003-2006 Israel Science Foundation-Spectral ballistic imaging for optical medical imaging 1997-1999 Israel Ministry of Defence (Mafat) - remote sensing 1996-1998 Ministry of Science-Near field optics and nonlinear optics 1991-1998 Israel Ministry of Defence (Mafat) -Nonlinear and atmospheric optics

Professional interests and experience Non-linear optics, fiber-optic communications, imaging through diffuse media, fiber-optic sensors, 3D imaging, tissue optics, Raman spectroscopy, RF photonics

Academic activities 2008-2014 Head, Dept. of E.E., Ariel University 2007 Head of the newly established Graduate program in E.E. 2007 Expanded the electrooptics curriculum. 4 new courses offered (Nonlinear optics, Biophotonics, Quantum Optics and Optical properties of semiconductors) 2005 Designed Graduate program in "Electrooptics and Biophotonics". Undergraduate program also expanded to include the field of Biophotonics (student research projects). 2005 Established the Center for Homeland Security 2000 Established new Electrooptic Laboratories. 1998 Established undergraduate electro-optics program at College of Judea and Samaria; Designed curriculum and laboratories. Curriculum includes 6 lecture-based courses and 3 laboratory courses. since 1989 Academic advisor for Ph.D. and MSc students (see table below)

3 Graduate student advising

Degree Name University Status PhD Doron Chomsky TAU with Soreq NRC Granted 1993 PhD Yaakov Glick Hebrew U. with Soreq NRC Granted 1995 PhD Yuval Isbi Hebrew U. with Soreq NRC Granted 2001 PhD Yosi Ben-Aderet BGU and Ariel Univ. Center Granted 2012 MSc Ami Mizrachi Hebrew U. with Soreq NRC Granted 1999 MSc Yosi Ben-Aderet BGU and Ariel Univ. Center Granted 2005 MSc Dan Schermann BGU and Ariel Univ. Center Granted 2006 MSc David Kwiat TAU and Ariel Univ. Center Granted 2007 MSc Tal Arditi BGU and Ariel Univ. Center Granted 2009 MSc Shaul Laimann TAU and Ariel Univ. Center Granted 2011 MSc Gil Linenberg TAU and Ariel Univ. Center Granted 2009 MSc Eyal Sarid Ariel Univ. Center Granted 2012 MSc Tzachi Tal Ariel Univ. Center Granted 2010 MSc Itay Gelber Ariel Univ. Center Granted 2013 MSc Andre Yarushevski Ariel Univ. Center In progress MSc Moran Biton Ariel Univ. Granted 2013 MSc David Mermelstein Ariel Univ. Granted 2013 MSc Arie Schwartzbaum Ariel Univ. In progress MSc Shalom Bloch Ariel Univ. Granted 2013 MSc Dan Ben-Shitrit Ariel Univ. Granted 2014 MSc Ohad Gavra Ariel Univ. In progress MSc Seva Rosenberg Ariel Univ. In progress MSc Liat Rappaport Ariel Univ. In progress PhD Shalom Bloch Ariel Univ. In progress PhD Ziv Glasser Ariel Univ. In progress PhD Moshe Ben-Ayun Ariel Univ. In progress

4 Journal publications (last 10 years)

Er’el Granot, Shmuel Sternklar and Sagie Tsadka, “Wavelength conversion and regeneration: To invert or not to invert ?”, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 7, 157 (2005)

Er'el Granot, Sternklar, Haim Chayat, Shalva Ben-Ezra, Niv Narkis, Nir Shachar, Arie Sher and Sagie Tsadka, " 10 Gigabits per second optical wavelength converter with a Brillouin scattering-based spectral filter, Appl. Opt. 44, 4959 (2005)

Er’el Granot, Reuven Zaibel, Niv Narkiss, Shalva Ben-Ezra, Haim Chayet, Nir Shahar, Shmuel Sternklar, Sagie Tsadka and Paul R. Prucnal, " Tunable all- optical signal regenerator with a semiconductor optical amplifier and a Sagnac loop: principles of operation", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B22, 2534 (2005)

Er'el Granot, Shmuel Sternklar, Dan Sherman, Yossi Ben-Aderet and Mordehchai Hakham-Yitzhak, "200 femtosecond impulse response of a Fabry-Perot etalon with the spectral ballistic imaging technique", Appl. Phys. B 82, 359 (2006)

Er'el Granot, Shmuel Sternklar, D. Kwiat, T. Arditi and M. Tur, "Narrow spectral response of a Brillouin generator", Opt. Commun. 259, 328 (2006)

Roman Pogreb, Gene Whyman, Albina Musin, Oleg Stanevsky, Yelena Bormashenko, Shmuel Sternklar, Edward Bormashenko, " The effect of controlled stretch on luminescence of Eu(III)(NO3)3(o-Phen)2 complex doped into PVDF film", Materials Letters 60, 1911 (2006)

Er'el Granot, Shmuel Sternklar, Reuven Zaibel, Haim Chayat, Shalva Ben- Ezra, Niv Narkis, Nir Shachar, and Sagie Tsadka, "Optical wavelength- converter with a dynamic Brillouin filter and an electronic compensating device", JOSA B 23, 1250 (2006)

S. Sternklar, E. Granot, D. Kwiat, T. Arditi and M. Tur, "Quasi-phase matched generation of optical intensity waves", Opt. Lett 31, 2894 (2006)

Er'el Granot, Shmuel Sternklar, Reuven Zaibel, Haim Chayat, Shalva Ben- Ezra, Niv Narkis, Nir Shachar, Sagie Tsadka and Paul R. Prucnal, "Extinction- ratio improvement by an all-optical signal regenerator with a semiconductor optical amplifier and a Sagnac loop", Opt. Commun. 266,80 (2006)

Er’el Granot, Shmuel Sternklar, Yossi Ben-Aderet and Dan Schermann, "Quasi-ballistic imaging through a dynamic scattering medium with optical- field averaging using Spectral-Ballistic-Imaging", Optics Express 14, 8598 (2006)

Er'el Granot and Shmuel Sternklar, " Reconstructing the impulse response of a diffusive medium with the Kramers-Kronig relations", JOSA B 24, 1620 (2007)

5 Tal Arditi, Er'el Granot and Shmuel Sternklar, "Nonlinear phase shifts with slow and superluminal group delay in SBS", Opt. Lett. 32,2689 (2007)

E. Granot Y. Ben-Aderet and S. Sternklar, "Differential Multiply Subtractive Kramers-Kronig Relations", JOSA B 25, 609 (2008)

Yossi Ben-Aderet, Er'el Granot and Shmuel Sternklar, Spectral analysis of a 1D scattering medium with the Differential Multiply Subtractive Kramers- Kronig Method", JOSA B 26, 125 (2009)

Shmuel Sternklar*, Eyal Sarid, Arik Arbel and Er'el Granot, "Brillouin cross- gain modulation and 10 m/s group velocity", Opt. Lett. 34, 2832 (2009)

Er'el Granot, Shmuel Sternklar and Yossi Ben-Aderet, "Efficient Impulse Response Reconstruction from the Amplitude Spectrum", JOSA B, 27, 354 (2010)

Yossi Ben-Aderet, Tzachi Tal, Er’el Granot, Shmuel Sternklar, and Natan S. Kopeika, Optical imaging of hidden objects behind clothing, Appl. Opt. 49, 3926 (2010)

Shmuel Sternklar, Eyal Sarid, Maxim Wart and Er'el Granot, Mutually modulated cross-gain modulation and slow light, J. of Opt. 12, 104016 (2010)

Er'el Granot, Shmuel Sternklar and Yossi Ben-Aderet, "Efficient Phase Spectrum Reconstruction with the Discrete Multiply-Subtractive Anchoring Algorithm", JOSA B28, 792 (2011)

Andre Yaroshevsky, Ziv Glaser, Er'el Granot and Shmuel Sternklar, "The transition from the ballistic to the diffusive regime in a turbid medium", Opt. Lett. 36, 1395 (2011)

Shmuel Sternklar, Maxim Vart, Alexander Lifshitz, Shalom Bloch, and Er’el Granot, "Kilohertz laser frequency sensing with Brillouin mutually modulated cross-gain modulation", Opt. Lett. 36, 4161 (2011)

Yaron Levi, Er’el Granot, and Shmuel Sternklar, "Comparison between spectral optical coherence tomography and the FFT-based impulse-response reconstruction method in the transmission configuration", JOSA B, Vol. 29, Issue 4, pp. 793-798 (2012)

David Abookasis, Elad Zafrir, Elimelech Nesher, Albert Pinchasov, Shmuel Sternklar and Marlon S. Mathews, Feasibility of Brain Temperature Assessment using Diffuse Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy during Heatstroke in a Mouse Model, J. Biomed. Opt. 17, 105009 (2012)

Shalom Bloch, Alexander Lifshitz, Er’el Granot and Shmuel Sternklar, "Wavelength monitoring with Mutually-Modulated Cross-Gain Modulation in a semiconductor optical amplifier and in a Brillouin amplifier", JOSA B 39, 974 (2013)

6 Ziv Glasser, Andre Yaroshevsky, Bavat Barak, Er'el Granot and Shmuel Sternklar, "Effect of measurement on the ballistic-diffusive transition in turbid media", Journal Biomedical Optics 18(10), 106006-1 (2013)

Eitam Luz, Tamar Ben Yaakov, Shaul Leiman, Shmuel Sternklar, and Er’el Granot, "Generic propagation of beams with sharp spatial boundaries," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 32, 678-684 (2015)

Barak Brezner, Sarah Cahen, Ziv Glasser, Shmuel Sternklar and Er'el Granot, “Ballistic imaging of biological media with collimated illumination and focal- plane detection”, J. Biomed. Opt. 20(7), 076006 (2015) David Mermelstein, Eliashiv Shacham, Moran Biton and Shmuel Sternklar, “Brillouin amplification and processing of the Rayleigh scattered signal”, Opt. Lett. 40, 3340 (2015)

Partial list of patents

1. "Optical apparatus and method for multi-pumped beam coupling", Inventors: B. Fischer, S. Sternklar and S. Weiss, Israel pat. appl. 79581. 2. "Optical apparatus and method for light beam steering and spatial modulation", Inventors: B. Fischer, S. Sternklar and S. Weiss, Israel pat. appl. 81723. 3. "Optical apparatus and method for beam coupling useful in light beam steering and spatial light modulation", Inventors: B. Fischer, S. Sternklar and S. Weiss, U.S. patent 4,869,579. 4. "A method and system for optically amplifying a coherent light image", Inventors: S. Sternklar, S. Jackel and A. Zigler, Israel pat. appl. 92151. 5. "Steering of laser beams", Inventor: S. Sternklar, Israel pat. appl. 101793. 6. "Laser beam monitoring method and apparatus", Inventors: S. Sternklar and Y. Glick, Israel pat.109700. 7. “Optical wavelength converter and modulator”, pat. appl. for , March 2001 8. “Method and Apparatus for generating optical signals”, pat appl. for, March 2002 9. “Method and apparatus for imaging through scattering and obstructing media”; Inventors: E. Granot and S. Sternklar (Pat. Appl. 2002) 10. "Means of measuring the electromagnetic spectral response of materials and imaging through media", Pat. Appl. 189352, filed 07/02/2008 11. "Methods and devices for analyzing material properties and for imaging through media", Pat. Appl. 61/193,353, filed 11/20/2008 12. "Passive pointing/touching interface device and method", Pat. Appl. 2009 13. " TWO-WAY INTERFACE DISPLAY SCREEN", Inventor: Shmuel Sternklar, provisional patent appl.61436220, Jan 2011 14. "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROBING AN OBJECT, MEDIUM OR OPTICAL PATH USING NOISY LIGHT", Shmuel Sternklar, PCT 11/00075, Jan 2011 15. "OPTICAL FREQUENCY MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE", appl. 61762901, feb 2013

7 16. "MODULATION-PHASE INTERFEROMETRY FOR SENSING", appl. 61803471, March 2013 17. "DETECTION METHOD AND DEVICE", appl. 62012429, June 2014 18. "METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION PHASE SHIFTING". appl. 62010470, June 2014