​The last few years have witnessed an enormous increase in the R&D activities related to the fields of Electro-Optics and Photonics, as these technologies find their use in answering numerous daily living needs. Such applications span a wide gamut from communications and imaging applications covering a wide range of wavelengths, through displays and medical-optics systems, to optical implementations of signal and image processing techniques. These technologies constitute a significant part of the overall spectrum of the High-Technology industry in Israel, as well as over the entire globe. More.