Dr. Ofir Yesharim earned his B.Sc. from the Technion - – Israel Institute of Technology, followed by M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Professor Ady Arie. His research has explored how structuring light via nonlinear processes enables new capabilities in quantum state generation, control, and measurement, with applications in quantum sensing and communications. He demonstrated the first realization of a quantum hologram, enabling versatile quantum state generation for secure communication. In addition, he explored how analogies between condensed matter physics and nonlinear optics enable new tools for light manipulation consisting of many colors, along with other experimental demonstrations for manipulating spatial and spectral degrees of freedom of light.

Ofir has received several awards for his research, including the Rothschild Award for Excellent Ph.Ds and a quantum science and technology fellowship for Ph.D. students from the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education.

As a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow, his work will continue to build on his expertise in quantum information science, with an emphasis on integrated photonic platforms.

Publication list:

Ofir Yesharim, Shani Izhak, Ady Arie “Pseudo-Spin Light Circuits in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals”. Nature communications 16, 6508 (2025).

Ofir Yesharim*, Shaul Pearl*, Joshua Comer-Foley, Irit Juwiler, Ady Arie, “Generating spatially entangled qudits using quantum nonlinear holography”.  Science Advances Vol. 9, Issue 8 (2023).

Ofir Yesharim, Aviv Karnieli, Steven Jackel, Giuseppe Di Domenico, Sivan Trajtenberg Mills, Ady Arie. “Observation of the All-Optical Stern-Gerlach Effect in Nonlinear Optics”.  Nature Photonics Vol. 6, pp.582-587 (2022).