Mordechai "Moti" Segev (מרדכי 'מוטי' שגב) is an Israeli physicist at the Technion who is known for his work on lasers, nonlinear optics, solitons, and quantum optics.
[1] Segev studied physics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, earning his bachelor's degree in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1990.
After earning his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology.
In 2009 he was appointed the Robert J. Shillman Distinguished Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering.
[5][6] He called this the phenomenon of self-trapping in incoherent white light, and he was the first to find solitons in a two-dimensional lattice.