The industry’s most innovative people 2024 Yinzi Xin
Organisation: California Institute of Technology
Role: PhD Student
Yinzi Xin’s work in astrophotonics involves imaging and characterising exoplanets, as well as designing and experimenting with novel instruments to reject unwanted starlight. Her main project is the Photonic Lantern Nulling Interferometer – a design she conceptualised – which enables broadband, high-resolution spectroscopy of exoplanets at and within the diffraction limit of a telescope. Over the coming year, Xin plans to implement wavefront sensing for the device and test the limits of its starlight suppression. “I found it surprising how important the institutional structure of an astronomical
Yosef Ben-Ezra
Organisation: NewPhotonics, Holon Institute of Technology
Role: Chief Technical Officer
“Our technology opens a new era of green communication, significantly reduces carbon emissions, and makes the planet a better place for all of us,” says Yosef Ben- Ezra, CTO of start-up NewPhotonics. Ben-Ezra is developing a new generation of optical transceivers to replace power- hungry digital signal processors. Implementing all-optical signal processing, he says, will significantly reduce power consumption while improving overall performance – something he believes will benefit data centres for high-performance computation and generative AI.
Ben-Ezra’s team recently invented a non-
invasive photonic device which, he says, “allows the monitoring and calibration of complex integrated photonic systems". He adds: “It is a non-invasive photonic
device that simultaneously measures the light intensity in the optical waveguides and required phase matching in the integrated photonic systems and will become one of the critical components in a variety of applications such as programmable photonic systems, quantum computation and communication, photonic encryption, and so on.”
Based in: Petah Tikva, Israel Education: PhD, Physics, Tel Aviv University
Based in: California, US
Education: MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT
observatory or instrument project is for facilitating innovative work in instrumentation," Xin says. “I've been fortunate to have access to instruments that allow me to run experiments on-sky.” She adds: “While photonic lantern
technologies – and astrophotonics in general – are very promising for ground-based astronomy, it's unclear if they will be at the requisite technology readiness level in time to be included in the Habitable Worlds Observatory. However, if mature enough in time, they could provide unique and compelling spectroscopic capabilities.”
Congratulations, Yosef!
Your innovative contributions to our integrated photonics have been remarkable, driving NewPhotonics' success. We're proud to lead the optical industry in speed, reliability, power and carbon savings in the data centres, thanks to your leadership.
All of us at NewPhotonics are incredibly proud of your achievements. Keep up the excellent work!
Yaniv Ben-Haim, Founder and CEO, NewPhotonics
54 Photonics100 2024
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