News & Updates

Almog and Amit present at the LMI Center retreat

At the Tel Aviv University LMI Center retreat in Ein Gedi, Almog Sade and Amit Lanis presented their work on complementary approaches to lightsail research. Almog presented “Real-Time Phase-Recovery for a Lightsail Measurement Platform,” while Amit presented “From Microscopic Dipoles to Lightsail Stability,” introducing a physics-based framework for understanding and designing stable lightsail motion.

Nathalie Roterman joins the group

Nathalie joins as our Administrative Manager, bringing extensive experience supporting a growing experimental photonics group at TAU. We are very happy to have her with us as the lab takes shape.

Our new computing systems are online

The lab's new CPU and GPU systems come online, giving us major new capacity for large-scale simulations, optimization, and machine learning alongside the experimental lab taking shape.

Yehudit Makoro joins the group
Yehudit joins the lab to work on diffractive optical systems and optical information processing. Welcome to the group!

New paper in Nature Nanotechnology: Steering light in 74 femtoseconds
Our work on ultrafast all-optical beam steering and spatial light modulation is published in Nature Nanotechnology, demonstrating control of light in only 74 femtoseconds.

The work was also featured by ynet: 

https://www.ynet.co.il/environment-science/article/sjqqjcpnze

Presenting at NMS 2026 in Ottawa
Lior presents our work on optically controlled bistability at the 20th International Workshop on Nanomechanical Sensing and meets a vibrant international community working at the forefront of nanomechanics.

Designing our new vibrometry platform at Polytec
Lior visits Polytec's facilities in Germany to work with their team on the design of the lab's new full-field vibrometry platform and see firsthand how these advanced measurement systems are built.

Back to Fulbright - this time from the other side
Five years after beginning his own Fulbright fellowship, Lior returns to Fulbright Israel as an invited speaker to its Board of Directors and senior leaders of Israeli higher education.

Optomechanics Beyond the Cavity
Lior gives an invited talk at ICSEE in Jerusalem on forces, nonlinearity, and distributed dynamics, sharing a broader view of where optomechanics can go beyond individual resonators.

Sreya Banerjee joins as our first postdoctoral researcher
Sreya joins with a strong background in theoretical and computational physics from Heidelberg University and the Max Planck Institute, significantly expanding the group's modelling and computational capabilities.

Almog Sade joins the lab
Almog begins an undergraduate project on real-time interferometric phase measurement without phase ambiguity, combining optics, experimental design, and signal processing.

New paper in Nanophotonics: All-optical super-resolution
Our work explores whether passive diffractive optical systems can reproduce the capabilities of digital super-resolution, and the physical trade-offs that emerge when computation is performed directly with light.

Amit Lanis joins as our first student
Amit, a Physics and Mathematics student at TAU, joins with an exceptional academic record and multiple medals from international physics Olympiads. We are excited that he chose our new lab to begin his research journey.

The Metaoptomechanics Lab begins at Tel Aviv University
A new lab begins. Lior joins the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at TAU and starts building the team, the experimental capabilities, and the science from the ground up.